I am trying to better understand what the total number of personnel in the French 3rd Republic's Airforce (Armee de l'Air) was and whether the...
Takao Takao, Very helpful answer, thank you. I was off course, and you have steered me back in the right direction. I appreciate everyone's...
Takao, Thank you, this is very helpful. I incorrectly thought Drydocks were a bottleneck on new large ship construction, but as you point out it...
Per the below quote from the Department of the Navy's Building the Navy's Bases in World War II, it looks like drydocks were used for Battleships...
Here are some images of destroyers being built in drydocks in the Charlestown Navy Yard (Boston) in 1938. But I know I have seen much larger...
Takao, thank you, I am not sure I understood your first sentence: Were you saying both NJ and Missouri were constructed in drydocks, but that not...
I understand that dry docks (or graving docks) were used for both construction and maintenance of larger ships, but what was the the size cutoff...
Does anyone have information on the number of French men inducted into Travailleurs Militaires companies in 1939- June 1940 and what classes or...
Was French conscription in the 1930s limited to the army, or was it used before or during WW2 by the Navy or Airforce (Armee de l'Air)? From what...
My understanding is that the French conscription age, which had been 21 starting in 1928, was reduced to 18 by a 1938 law. I assume this was...
Agreed, but those men who were inducted or enlisted should be represented in the approximately 1.2 million disability and administrative...
Regarding the 862,000 disease discharge figure, the quote I had seen listed 387,00 neuro-pschiatric discharges and 862,000 disease discharges as...
OK, I found definitive answers to the discrepencies I was pointing out, and the explanations involve a combination of the things lwd suggested may...
>>Note that how initial numbers are counted and exactly what dates are used may also impact the numbers. Good point and agreed. For example,...
In part it depends how you define in combat. For example, a minority of any infantry division were front line soldiers meant to directly engage...
I am beginning to suspect that the difference between the 13 million served and 16 million served numbers, is that the 16 million is double...
The figure of 8.3 million in the U.S. Army (i.e., Army Air Force, Army Ground Forces, and Army Service Forces) includes support, adminsistrative,...
I am finding a number of conflicting sources on the total number of men that served in the U.S. military during WW2 both online and in print (not...
Thanks, that makes sense. The French also mobilized some infantry divisions composed mostly of older reservists, but they labeled them Series A...
I know that German line infantry divisions were formed through different waves (up to number 35 by end of the war), and that some of these waves...
