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In WWII, were gliders pilots (chiefly used in Normandy by the Americans and Crete and Belgium by the Germans) supposed to fight as infantry with the troops they carried to the front or to not get involved in the fight and rejoin the bulk of the forces as soon as possible ?

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I am an European King in the low middle ages. How would I go about to obtain a trebuchet (or other state-of-the-art siege weaponry) for my forces for use in the war I am planning ?

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How true is the cliché that US field radios used by Americans during the Vietnam war were constantly failing ?

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Did Germans nazis up to and during WWII actually refer to themselves and their organization/government and everything related as nazis, or was this word only used by everyone else ?

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In WWII, were gliders pilots (chiefly used in Normandy by the Americans and Crete and Belgium by the Germans) supposed to fight as infantry with the troops they carried to the front or to not get involved in the fight and rejoin the bulk of the forces as soon as possible ?	2562
I am an European King in the low middle ages. How would I go about to obtain a trebuchet (or other state-of-the-art siege weaponry) for my forces for use in the war I am planning ?	4
How true is the cliché that US field radios used by Americans during the Vietnam war were constantly failing ?	2
Did Germans nazis up to and during WWII actually refer to themselves and their organization/government and everything related as nazis, or was this word only used by everyone else ?	0