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Questions pertaining to characteristics of armed forces' structure, manpower, equipment, or expenditures.
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Can you identify the ship in this picture?
The stern is much too low to be an LSM. I'm 99% sure that it's LSI(L)-545, likely prior to departing for New Guinea in late summer of 1944. It was an LSI 341 class transport (class prototype below):
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Why hire Hessian troops?
Per the Wikipedia page, their total military strength was around 45,000 men, and Lord North and General Howe didn't think this was nearly enough to succeed. … Recruiting in England at the time was extremely difficult and the British military was volunteer at that point. …
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Percentage of the draft pool that were conscripted during WW2 and Vietnam
Wikipedia's page on conscription actually gives a pretty good breakdown.
In WWII, males between 18 and 64 were required to register, but the selections were limited by executive order on December 5, …
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How were shields fastened to soldiers' backs?
See Bronze Age Military Equipment by Dan Howard, Daily Life in the Middle Ages by Paul Newman, Hastings 1066: The Fall of Saxon England by Christopher Gravett. …
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