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In the British Army in World War 2, these designations came about because of the expansion of the Territorial Army in 1939. When the British Army was mobilising for war it was decided to double the size of the TA by having each unit form a duplicate of itself. So for example the 5th Battalion...

No. If you look at the page you linkd to you will see 10 Commando's various troops were composed of various nationalities from occupied countries. 10 Commando never fought as a complete unit and the troops were attached to British Army or Royal Marine Commandos in action eg. the two French...

Capt. Edward Fogerty Fegen RN commanded the armed merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay. He is famous for the action in November 1940 against the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer. The converted liner was escorting a convoy of 37 ships from Halifax to the UK when it was attacked by the Scheer...

1 helicopter, I'm not sure whether it will be Lynx or Merlin. As far as other RN surface ships go, Type 22 frigates and Type 42 destroyers have Lynx, Type 23 frigates (the most numerous) have Merlin. Edit: will initially operate Lynx, but may change to Merlin later...

John Holmes... Damn I thought he was dead.

Who was the naval commander for the Normandy invasion and what significant naval operation had he commanded in 1940?

The RAF operates Chinooks off Royal Navy carriers fairly regularly eg. flown into Afghanistan and Iraq that way, including air assault in Iraq 2003. I don't know if their aircraft have any modifications.

Anthony Herbert's Soldier I thought was good- really exposed the bloated, inefficient organisation the US Army became in Vietnam, while showing there were still some effective soldiers. A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo, who was there as a Marine infantry officer in 1965-66, is I think one of the...

I thought many of those murdered were from the Royal Winnipeg Rifles.

Yes great for a joy ride, even as an interceptor, but as a strike aircraft? 4000lb warload? Not very good low-level performance? Very short range? The US Air Force certainly didn't think so, they got F-4s (originally a navy aircraft) instead. A few were in fact sent to Vietnam but proved fairly...

You're looking in the wrong column. It's actually 7350 civilians.

Musical Youth- Pass The Dutchie

All the French troops killed in the airstrike were "Troupes de Marine", not Foreign Legion, and it was a platoon of them (from 2e RIMa) who destroyed two of the Ivorian SU-25s with Milan missiles. Also I don't know if you could call the operation a classic commando raid, since the French troops...

Here is the full run-down on British Army beret colours (remember many units wear forage caps with No.2s, the khaki service dress, and therefore only wear berets with combats): khaki: Foot Guards, Household Cavalry, Honourable Artillery Company (TA), Princess of Wales's Royal Regt,        ...

I really enjoyed First Clash, which I still have. Is Counterstroke any good?

I think the SAS started wearing the tan/sand coloured beret (adopted in 1942) before the Guards started wearing khaki. In fact most of the British Army (and Canadian) were wearing khaki (as in about the same colour as battledress) berets by 1943/44, the exceptions being armoured corps (black)...

I've never heard those definitions before. The US DOD would define all the units you just mentioned as SOF. SOF really is a term which is mainly used in the States, because as Kev T said "Special Forces" was already taken and couldn't be used as a collective. In most other countries either...

Maybe Harper hasn't been paying attention to what's been going on in the CF and doesn't know about the CSOR.

What's the URL mate?

I believe it was the M4A2 which was diesel-powered. This would make sense because most Russian tanks had diesel engines. As far as I know no M4A2s were used by the US Army but they were supplied to the British/Commonwealth forces. Other Shermans used radial aircraft-type engines or a bank of...