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Badge given to a steelworker in 1915 to show that he was in a reserved occupation, and thus avoid receiving "white feathers" from women.. Some of the reserved occupations included clergymen, farmers, doctors, teachers and certain industrial workers such as coal miners, dock workers and train drivers and iron and steel workers.
World War II Luftwaffe: comprising three or more Gruppen, each made up of three (or sometimes four) Staffeln; a WW2 Geschwader was equivalent to a British Commonwealth air force group, a French escadron, an Italian stormo, an IJAAS hikōdan, an IJNAC sentai, a Soviet aviation division, a USAAF/USMC air wing, and/or a US Navy carrier air group;
The list of Axis named operations in the European Theatre represents those military operations that received a codename, predominantly from the Wehrmacht commands. It does not represent all operations that were carried out by the Axis powers, or their allies in the European Theatre during the Second World War. Although named operations, the ...
This is a list of known World War II era codenames for military operations and missions commonly associated with World War II. As of 2022 this is not a comprehensive list, but most major operations that Axis and Allied combatants engaged in are included, and also operations that involved neutral nation states. Operations are categorised ...
Code words used by the Royal Air Force during the Second World War: Angels – height in thousands of feet. Balbo – a large formation of aircraft. [1] Bandit – identified enemy aircraft. Bogey – unidentified (possibly unfriendly) aircraft. Buster – radio-telephony code phrase for 'maximum throttle' or full power climb.
World War II: No Shanghai: 1937–1945 No Austria: 1938 Austria Germany: Anschluss: Events preceding World War II in Europe: Yes: Sudetenland [47] 1938 Czechoslovakia: Munich Agreement: Yes: Bohemia and Moravia: 1939–1945 Occupation of Czechoslovakia: No Memel Territory: 1939–1945 Lithuania: Occupation of Memel: Yes: Albania: 1939–1945 ...
List of government and military acronyms. List of U.S. government and military acronyms. List of United States Marine Corps acronyms and expressions; List of U.S. Navy acronyms and expressions; List of U.S. Air Force acronyms and expressions; FUBAR, a 2002 mockumentary by Michael Dowse; Neotrombicula fujigmo § Etymology; List of aviation mnemonics
This is a list of words, terms, concepts and slogans of Nazi Germany used in the historiography covering the Nazi regime. Some words were coined by Adolf Hitler and other Nazi Party members. Other words and concepts were borrowed and appropriated, and other terms were already in use during the Weimar Republic.