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After World War II American Bantam continued to make trailers for the consumer market. In 1943 American Bantam launched an Advertising campaign boasting that "Ivan got his first Jeep from Bantam" [26] in response to an application by Willys-Overland to the United States Patent and Trademark Office to trademark "JEEP" filed on February 13, 1943 ...
From the very beginning of World War II, Spain favoured the Axis Powers. Apart from ideology, Spain had a debt to Germany of $212 million for supplies of matériel during the Civil War. Indeed, in June 1940, after the Fall of France , the Spanish Ambassador to Berlin had presented a memorandum in which Franco declared he was "ready under ...
Edwin Rolfe – Poet and author of first history of Americans in Spain, The Lincoln Battalion (1939). George Sossenko – Also fought in the Durruti Column. Robert G. Thompson – Awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in World War II; among the 1950s Smith Act trial defendants. Albert Prago – Captain. Professor of History, City University ...
A bantam, in British Army usage, was a soldier of below the army's minimum regulation height of 5 ft 3 in (160 cm). [ 1 ] During the First World War , the British Army raised battalions in which the normal minimum height requirement for recruits was reduced from 5 ft 3 in (160 cm) to 5 ft (150 cm).
Bantam BRC is an American off-road vehicle designed during World War II, constructed in 1940, and the precursor to the Jeep. Produced in a relatively small number of 2,642 units, in several versions, it was used by the United States , the United Kingdom , and the Soviet Union .
Before the United States entered World War II, Hispanic Americans were already fighting on European soil in the Spanish Civil War.The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict in Spain that started after an attempted coup d'état by parts of the army, led by the Nationalist General Francisco Franco, against the government of the Second Spanish Republic.
This is a list of weapons used by Spain during World War II. Francoist Spain remained neutral throughout the world war, but Spanish dictator Francisco Franco had Axis sympathies due to Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany helping him win the Spanish Civil War. This list is only for Spain and does not cover the Blue Division, which was a part of the ...
During World War II, the Tangier International Zone was invaded and occupied by Francoist Spain. On 14 June 1940, a few days after the Italian declaration of war after the German invasion of France , Spain seized the opportunity and, amid the collapse of the French Third Republic , a contingent of 4,000 Moorish soldiers based in the Spanish ...