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http://www.history.army.mil/html/topics/afam/aa-volinfreps.html ok, only belatedly during 1944-45 were the US Army's black infantry replacement platoons in ETO assigned to white inf coys amongst 1st & 7th Armies, to replace losses sustained during the Battle of the Bulge in the aftermath of...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Marlowe#Arrest_and_death Inspired by reading RULED BRITANNIA last wk: WI Marlowe hadn't been killed in the supposed pub brawl at Deptford in 1593 ?

This thread is inspired by an episode of ULTIMATE WEAPON I saw last night: now Vassili Oshchepkov, as 1 of the 1st Europeans to go to japan to learn judo & the main founder of the eclectic hybird fighting style which became Sambo, wished to have this martial art taught to the ordinary peasants &...

fellas, thx for your contributions- however, I need to point out that I was more so referring to the 7 cities where the churches of the Book of Revelation are addressed- of which Philly was 1, together with Ephesus, Smyrna (though I think there is a Smyrna in Alabama ?), Pergamum, Thyatira...

well, boys, a UN intel unit has been a proposed reform to the UN in many of the reports of the 1990s on the subject- esp for sitns such as Rwanda, where Gen Dallaire & UNAMIR could've been undoubtedly assisted with an inbuilt intel capability in 1993/94 to confirm the reports they'd been given...

Of those I've read so far: DISASTER AT D-DAY K IS FOR KILLING GETTYSBURG & GRANT COMES EAST RULED BRITANNIA THE MOSCOW OPTION THE VICTORY THAT NEARLY WAS DIXIE VICTORIOUS THIRD REICH VICTORIOUS RISING SUN VICTORIOUS 1945

I read it the other day at Big W- pretty good on the whole, though not as good as AXIS OF TIME series...

OK, there were discussions by late 1998 for the US govt to authorise specops to take out OBL in Afghanistan, which were however never acted upon due to fear of US casualties & collateral damage- therefore, the retaliations for the East African embassy bombings came in the form of cruise missile...

OK, Philadelphia as the city of brotherly love is the most prominent major city in America named after 1 of the ancient Asia Minor cities with substantial churches of the New Testament age- how bout also other such major American cities named after the others a la Ephesus, Laodicea, Philippi...

OK, in a similar vein as outfits like Berdan's Sharpshooters were established for crack rifle marksmen, could similar units have been setup by either side comprising specifically shotgunners ?

OK, WI URGENT FURY had gone better in Oct 1983 ? Things which should've been improved SO much: -better intel on the location of the 500 US medical students (which leads also to another WI- say, instead of OTL these students being in no actual danger, the Grenadian army had attempted to...

WI Manuel Noriega, after JUST CAUSE had started & his PDF & DIGBATS had started to have their butts kicked in Dec 1989, decided to flee into the countryside & implement a guerilla war against the Americans ? He actually had a set of plans called GENESIS & EXODUS for that purpose, together with...

hmmm, I think it was Bruce Robinson, mate- he wrote the book based on the screenplay, I believe...

Is there any way that Argentina, & Chile could've, similar to Brazil & central American countries, have developed large black populations ?

After reading a book on military rescue ops from WWII onwards today, I was just wondering how the MAYAGUEZ rescue op could've gone a damn sight better in April 1975 instead of the fiasco it was- the biggest improvements cold've been: -better intel- esp re the location of the ship's crew- not...

OK, just read THE KILLING FIELDS today at a Salvo's 2nd-hand shop- which went into detail re how the Khmer Rouge won the Cambodian CW on account of the gross incompetence & corruption of the Khmer Republic's political & military leaders from Lon Nol downwards, & the lack of will to fight, plus...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Werbell_III So, WI the planned invasion of Haiti by Haitian & Cuban exiles had succeeded without being aborted ? WI Haiti had been liberated of the Duvalier hold 20 yrs prior to OTL ?

Just read in a Lonely planet book on Brazil today, that 62% of Afro-Brazilians still live in poverty, due to the colour & class stratification which has existed since colonial times, with black Brazilians being chronically under-represented or absent in most areas of society such as political...

Is there any way that major Latin American powers such as Brazil, Argentina, Chile or Uruguay could've somehow directly intervened in the ACW, & on whose side ?

Just watched PUBLIC ENEMIES last wk- so WI Purvis, after he took down Dillinger et al, hadn't fallen foul of his boss & been forced to resign from the FBI ? How much more could he have advanced his crime-fighting career had he remained in the Bureau ?