laststandonzombieisland by laststandonzombieisland The Habsburgs by the 1860s had at least five assorted life guard units in their Household Division, with probably the most elite of them– on regular watch anyway– being the Imperial-Royal Trabant Lifeguards (k.k. Trabantenleibgarde). Composed of long-serving Army officers and career NCOs, the half-company-sized Trabantenleibgarde was responsible for mounting the interior guard at theContinue reading “Naval History – The dusty cardboard box of Kaiser Karl”
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Hell Ships: A Disastrous Sinking That Killed 828 British Prisoners of War
The Lisbon Maru was transporting the men to mainland Japan in 1942.James Wharton8th October 2021 at 1:01pm Within a year of entering the Second World War, in 1942, Japan began moving captured prisoners of war to the mainland to be put to work as slave labour. The POWs were Allied military personnel who had beenContinue reading “Hell Ships: A Disastrous Sinking That Killed 828 British Prisoners of War”
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