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Historian Douglas Botting describes 19,000 deserters plaguing US Army operations in Europe in late 1944, and he claims that these problems influenced Eisenhower's decision not to push hard toward Vienna & Berlin in 1945. How true are these claims? Did the Pacific Theater have similar problems?

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Why do we need blood donors? Why isn't there synthetic blood?

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In the Eastern Front memoir “In Deadly Combat,” the author recalls Ukraine’s scenic autumn farmland evoking images of America. Would the average German have thought of America as a nation of beautiful farmland? What would the average German soldier have thought of the USA circa 1941?

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How does hypothermia cause heart failure?

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Regarding the remains of US dead in WW2, what was the administrative and logistical process for handling these thousands of bodies, both during and after the war?

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Did medieval armies have medics?

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Nazi policies politicized academia, causing many German scientists to leave Germany during the 1930’s. How great an effect did this brain drain have on the German atomic bomb project? The American one?

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There is a wide body of English-language literature about the culture, doctrine, and internal politics of the Wehrmacht. What are some similar works about Imperial Japan’s armed forces?

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The US won every major battle of the Vietnam War, so why was it unable to stop North Vietnam from ultimately conquering South Vietnam?

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Who did the US military use as Japanese-language interpreters in WW2? Were Japanese-Americans used, or were they white Americans trained to fluency in Japanese?

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Historian Douglas Botting describes 19,000 deserters plaguing US Army operations in Europe in late 1944, and he claims that these problems influenced Eisenhower's decision not to push hard toward Vienna & Berlin in 1945. How true are these claims? Did the Pacific Theater have similar problems?	2	AskHistorians
Why do we need blood donors? Why isn't there synthetic blood?	1	askscience
In the Eastern Front memoir “In Deadly Combat,” the author recalls Ukraine’s scenic autumn farmland evoking images of America. Would the average German have thought of America as a nation of beautiful farmland? What would the average German soldier have thought of the USA circa 1941?	1	AskHistorians
How does hypothermia cause heart failure?	1	askscience
Regarding the remains of US dead in WW2, what was the administrative and logistical process for handling these thousands of bodies, both during and after the war?	1	AskHistorians
Did medieval armies have medics?	1	AskHistorians
Nazi policies politicized academia, causing many German scientists to leave Germany during the 1930’s. How great an effect did this brain drain have on the German atomic bomb project? The American one?	1	AskHistorians
There is a wide body of English-language literature about the culture, doctrine, and internal politics of the Wehrmacht. What are some similar works about Imperial Japan’s armed forces?	1	AskHistorians
The US won every major battle of the Vietnam War, so why was it unable to stop North Vietnam from ultimately conquering South Vietnam?	1	AskHistorians
Who did the US military use as Japanese-language interpreters in WW2? Were Japanese-Americans used, or were they white Americans trained to fluency in Japanese?	1	AskHistorians