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The Bavarian Army was the army of the Electorate (1682–1806) and then Kingdom (1806–1918) of Bavaria. It existed from 1682 as the standing army of Bavaria until the merger of the military sovereignty ( Wehrhoheit) of Bavaria into that of the German State in 1919. The Bavarian Army was never comparable to the armies of the Great Powers of ...
Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, District of Columbia. Naval Air Station North Island, California. Naval Air Station Lemoore, California. Naval Air Station Meridian, Mississippi. Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas. Commander Fleet Activities Sasebo, Japan. Commander Naval Activities Marianas, Guam.
Bavarian Ministry of Justice. Landsberg Prison is a prison in the town of Landsberg am Lech in the southwest of the German state of Bavaria, about 65 kilometres (40 mi) west-southwest of Munich and 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Augsburg. It is best known as the prison where Adolf Hitler was held in 1924, after the failed Beer Hall Putsch in ...
Allied soldiers believed that Japanese soldiers were inclined to feign surrender in order to make surprise attacks, a practice which was outlawed by the Hague Convention of 1907. [154] [153] Therefore, according to Straus, "Senior officers opposed the taking of prisoners on the grounds that it needlessly exposed American troops to risks". [153]
Okinawa, which accounts for only 0.6% of Japanese land, is burdened with the majority of the 50,000 American troops based in the country under a bilateral security pact, and 70% of U.S. military ...
Moentilan, Magelang, Central Java. Poeloe Brayan [ nl; id] (5 camps) (Pulo Brayan), Medan, North Sumatra. Pontianak POW camp, Pontianak (Dutch Borneo) (today Kalimantan) Si Rengo Rengo (Siringo-ringo), Labuhanbatu, North Sumatra. Tandjong Priok POW camp, Tandjong Priok, Batavia, West Java. Tebing Tinggi, North Sumatra.
Battle of Okinawa. / 26.5°N 128°E / 26.5; 128. The Battle of Okinawa ( Japanese: 沖縄戦, Hepburn: Okinawa-sen), codenamed Operation Iceberg, [ 24]: 17 was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. [ 25][ 26] The ...
Gustav Ritter von Kahr. Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria. Friedrich von Keller (diplomat) Joseph Koeth. Prince Konrad of Bavaria. Robert Krauß. Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein. Hermann Kriebel. Karl Kriebel.