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Nicaraguan soldiers training using pugil sticks and protective gear. A pugil stick is a heavily padded pole-like training weapon used since the early 1940s by military personnel in training for rifle and bayonet combat. [1] The pugil stick is similar to a quarterstaff or Japanese bo, and may be marked to indicate which end represents the ...
World War III ( WWIII or WW3 ), also known as the Third World War, is a hypothetical future global conflict subsequent to World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945). It is widely assumed that such a war would involve all of the great powers, like its predecessors, as well as the use of nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass ...
The NATO Stock Number or National Stock Number (NSN) is a 13-digit alphanumeric code consisting of a Group of Supply, a Class of Supply and the unique NIIN to designate unique items of supply grouped by their relative catalog category. The first four digits are the NATO Supply Classification (NSC) or Federal Supply Class (FSC) code.
The Siegfried Line campaign was a phase in the Western European campaign of World War II, which involved actions near the German defensive Siegfried Line.. This phase spanned from the end of the Battle of Normandy, or Operation Overlord and the pursuit across northern France, which ended on 15 September 1944, and concluded with the opening of the German Ardennes counteroffensive, better known ...
The whaler on HMS Sheffield being manned with an armed boarding party to check a neutral vessel stopped at sea, 20 Oct 1941. The Blockade of Germany (1939–1945), also known as the Economic War, involved operations carried out during World War II by the British Empire and by France in order to restrict the supplies of minerals, fuel, metals, food and textiles needed by Nazi Germany – and ...
Towards the end of World War Two, the British introduced a much improved 30 lb (14 kg) incendiary bomb, whose fall was retarded by a small parachute and on impact sent out an extremely hot flame for 15 ft (4.6 m); This, the "Incendiary Bomb, 30-lb., Type J, Mk I", [11] burned for approximately two minutes. Articles in late 1944 claimed that the ...
Order of Glory. Order of Alexander Nevsky. Order of the Patriotic War. Order of the Red Star. Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945". Medal "For the Victory over Japan". Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad". Medal "For the Defence of Odessa". Medal "For the Defence of Sevastopol".
XT. Detached from MW convoys to Tripoli, Libya, or plying the route from Alexandria, Egypt, to Tripoli. Feb 1943 to Jul 1944. For operations in North Africa or for Operation Husky; reverse TX. XTG. Alexandria, Egypt via Tripoli, Libya, to Gibraltar. Jun 1943. Two convoys (XTG.1 and XTG.2); reverse GTX. XW.