My grandfather was an EMG on a B-29 superfortress flying out of Guam during World War 2, but I can’t find what the abbreviation stands for. A friend told me that it’s likely he was an electrical specialist gunner, so I’d like to check if that’s the case and what specifically EMG stands for (elect...

Hello. My girlfriend found this uniform in the closet of her father. He passed some time ago. This uniform was in his possession and we are someone confused. This is obviously an US-American Uniform, yet her father was in the German Wehrmacht during WW2. This is a little messed up. Can anyone he...

Prince Philip took the surname of Mountbatten when he became a naturalised British citizen in 1947. His name prior to that was Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Gluckburg. Did he use the full name while serving in the Navy? It seems a mouthful to use while on operational duties and could also presuma...

How did insurance compensate for the losses attached to pandemics like Black death, spanish flu, Asian flu and HIV ? I want to compare, as it happened at different time.