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Many quipus were identified as idolatrous and destroyed, but some Spaniards promoted the adaptation of the quipu recording system to the needs of the colonial administration, and some priests advocated the use of quipus for ecclesiastical purposes. [9] Today, quipus continue to serve as important items in several modern Andean villages. [10]
Stranger in the House: Women's Stories of Men Returning from the Second World War (Simon and Schuster, 2009) online. Summers, Julie. When the children came home: Stories of wartime evacuees (Simon and Schuster, 2011) online. Turner, Barry, and Tony Rennell, When Daddy Came Home: How Family Life Changed Forever in 1945, Pimlico, 1995, ISBN 0 ...
The Demobilization of United States armed forces after the Second World War began with the defeat of Germany in May 1945 and continued through 1946. The United States had more than 12 million men and women in the armed forces at the end of World War II, of whom 7.6 million were stationed abroad. [1]
The first contacts were made by the US 273rd Infantry Regiment, 69th Infantry Division and Soviet 58th Guards Rifle Division. [ 1 ] The first visual contact occurred at 11:30 am, April 25, in the village of Leckwitz, when First Lieutenant Arnold Kotzebue, from the 69th Infantry Division, saw a horseman, named Aitkali Alibekov, [ 2 ] riding into ...
The first pistol model acquired for Finnish Army. Mainly used in Finnish home front during World War 2, but also few frontline units got these pistols issued.) [127] Browning FN M1910 (2,500 pistols bought from Belgium in February of 1940. During Continuation War they were issued to home front troops.) [127]
World War II saw rapid technological innovation in response to the needs of the various combatants. Many different weapons systems evolved as a result. Many different weapons systems evolved as a result.
At the beginning of World War II, Sweden had a very low number of motorized vehicles, instead relying horses for transportation. When the war broke out in 1939, Sweden had one armoured division consisting of merely 13 light tanks, only 3 of which were considered to be modern (the remaining 10 had been in service since the 1920s).
A British soldier on a beach in Southern England, 7 October 1940. Detail from a pillbox embrasure.. British anti-invasion preparations of the Second World War entailed a large-scale division of military and civilian mobilisation in response to the threat of invasion (Operation Sea Lion) by German armed forces in 1940 and 1941.