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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: 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 ...
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.
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 ...
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This list of military awards and decorations of World War II is an index to articles on notable military awards presented by the combatants during World War II This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
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[28] [29] It was reformulated by the CCB following the entrance of the US into World War II by the CCB "Methods and Procedures" committee, [29] and was used by all branches of the United States Armed Forces until the promulgation of its replacement, the ICAO spelling alphabet (Alfa, Bravo, etc.), in 1956. Before the JAN phonetic alphabet, each ...