This is pretty late but i just found this out. On May 27, John Finn, the oldest Medal of Honor recpient died. He had earned his Medal of Honor during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
from wikipedia, Medal of Honor Citation:

For extraordinary heroism, distinguished service, and devotion above and beyond the call of duty. During the first attack by Japanese airplanes on the Naval Air Station, Kanoehe Bay, on 7 December 1941, Lieutenant Finn promptly secured and manned a 50-caliber machine gun mounted on an instruction stand in a completely exposed section of the parking ramp, which was under heavy enemy machine-gun strafing fire. Although painfully wounded many times, he continued to man this gun and to return the enemy's fire vigorously and with telling effect throughout the enemy strafing and bombing attacks and with complete disregard for his own personal safety. It was only by specific orders that he was persuaded to leave his post to seek medical attention. Following first-aid treatment, although obviously suffering much pain and moving with great difficulty, he returned to the squadron area and actively supervised the rearming of returning planes. His extraordinary heroism and conduct in this action were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service

May he rest in peace

This thread is for anyone who has a question about WW2 that needs to be answered or anything that needs to be identified.
to get it started I have my own question/identifacation, This one image has captivated me for a while, not certain why, but does anyone know what type of plane this is? http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/allies-bomb-northern-nazi-germany-55.jpg
what is known about it:
1. Its Japanese
2. it crashed in the lagoon at makin atoll

As the title says i would like to see a Operation Chariot map. It shouldn't be too hard to make, the Normandy and Port en Bessin statics should be fine for St. Nazaire and everything for the British and German teams is already in FH2. The only thing that would be a problem would be the ship and that would only be a static.

From Wikipedia:

Operation Chariot, the St. Nazaire Raid, was a successful British amphibious attack on the heavily defended docks of Saint-Nazaire in occupied France; taking place during the night of 28 March 1942 during the Second World War. The operation was undertaken by the Royal Navy and Army Commandos under the auspices of Louis Mountbatten's Combined Operations Headquarters. Saint-Nazaire was targeted as the loss of its dry dock would force any large German warship in need of repairs, such as the Tirpitz, to return to home waters rather than seek safe haven on the Atlantic coast.[3]

The obsolete destroyer HMS Campbeltown, commanded by Stephen Halden Beattie and accompanied by 18 shallow draft boats, rammed the Saint-Nazaire lock gates and was later blown up ending the use of the dock. Commandos landed on the docks and destroyed other dock structures before attempting to fight their way out. Out of 611 Commandos who entered the Saint-Nazaire harbour, around only 200 succeeded in landing at the docks. All but 27 of the commandos that landed were either killed or captured: 22 escaped back to Britain in Motor Torpedo Boats and five escaped to the Spanish border. Five Victoria Crosses were awarded to men involved in the raid, which has been called The Greatest Raid of All



I Would make the map myself but Bf2editor doesnt work very well on Vista. By the way, because of this problem the 'Rise of the Soviets' mod i announced on the modding thread is canceled until ferther notice.

On this day in 1941, German Battleship Bismarck was sunk by planes and ships of the Royal Navy. With this great ship went 1,995 Kriegsmarine sailors and -if you count the losses of the HMS Hood-1.415 British sailors.

On this Day in 1942 in Prague, Brtish trained Czech agents attacked Reinhard Heydrich using a bomb. Reinhard Died a little over a week later from his injuries.

While Climbing up a ladder on some maps, you pass though the ladder and go up though the ceiling.