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hiya! so to get to the point, i like to create my own characters and one of them is a retired WWII RAF pilot. he enlisted when he was in his teens and left/retired once the war was over (he lives in europe, so on/shortly after ve-day) when he was 27. i want to know the following in order to flesh out his character and get as accurate with the history as i possibly can:

• the character was born in germany and he and his family fled to britain. what is the latest possible time they could have left germany before it was difficult for people to emigrate?
• the latest possible time to enlist in the RAF at that time
• what rank would he start out as
• what he would have to do to climb the ranks
• at what rank would he start piloting a plane and going into battle with it (the timeframe of the above events, ie. how long it would take for him to become a war pilot)
• what the uniforms/badges looked like back in the WWII era and which one(s) he’d have
• what type of plane he would have in that era and what it would look like / could do
• if war pilots suffer from ptsd more/less than ground troops

if you have any answers (or suggestions for better places to ask these questions; i've kinda just started to use reddit), please share! i want to make this character as accurate as i possibly can. i'm sorry if it's a lot at once; i'll accept as many answers from as many people as possible, provided a good source is attached! i may not be able to reply right away but any bit of info helps!

thanks in advance!

I've never been to Korea (either one), so my experience comes from Korean restaurants--mostly in China, if that helps. For example, last night's menu included many dishes in which cheese featured prominently: as a dip, as a dressing, etc. This is not an isolated observation; I've seen similar things at lots of other Korean places. Based on that (admittedly limited) experience, Korean food seems like an outlier.

Has Korean cuisine really embraced cheese more than other East Asian cuisines? Is this a recent phenomenon? Is this only true about Korean food outside Korea? (I doubt it's simply a matter of catering to customer demand, as Chinese food is virtually cheeseless.)

I have seen it written that as part of Soviet Deep Battle, both types of corps were intended for exploitation of breaches made by the rifle divisions and heavy tank brigades of the shock armies. Is this correct? And if not, what was the proscribed role for each type of corps?

I ask because I find the development of Soviet armoured organisation fascinating to observe; the grand ideas of the early 1930s, the regression that came with the purges, then suddenly the huge multi-division formations of 1940-41. After that comes the second regression after the disasters of 1941 and finally the development of what seemed to be the "winning formula" in 1942. It is also interesting to compare with the development of armour organisation in the other belligerent armies.

Were pots typically used to hold large amounts of coins?

As far as I know, there only only a few other extant scrolls using the same format, and generally they represent imperial or official processions such as Departure Herald or the Qing military parades. There are also reproductions of the original Song dynasty version. Were there more of these types of paintings, but have since been lost, or did people just not bother to do more of them?

Mexico City was built on top of Tenochtitlán, Cholula's pyramid was covered and had a church buit on top. Why wasn't Teotihuacán destroyed like other pre-columbian cities?

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Hello,

I'm extremely confused about this one thing. Luther's main idea was justification by faith alone, which means that you do not need to perform "good works" like in Catholicism, such as pilgrimage, giving alms, going on a crusade, etc.

But apparently, also Luther argued salvation through good works out of Gratitude to God. His obsession over salvation and confessions caused an emphasis on salvation through piety and "good works".

Can someone please help me clarify this? If Luther and Protestantism's main thing is justification by faith alone, why was Luther also obsessed with good works? It seems contradictory and doesn't make sense in my head.

I assume this goes back further than the myth that piercing one side over the other means you're gay?

While in a class on the history of the Reformation, I learned that standing tradition among Catholics and Protestants was to punish adultery with whipping and exile, and in some cases, even death. This was for both men and women--in Geneva a man was executed for committing adultery with 20 or so women.

Now, so far as I know, adultery these days is a purely domestic matter that the civil authorities do not concern themselves with. Divorces, of course, are heavily legislated, and pre-nuptial agreements can carry penalties for those that have them. But the law seems to take a hands-off approach to adultery as such.

When did this transition happen, and why?

Has there ever been a point in time where a point of view in a certainpart of history was considered a fact, but was changed dud to new findings or evidence?

The title is pretty self-explanatory, I think.

Since pretty much every squad had a machine gun, some soldiers had SMGs (MP-40, PPS, Tommy), semi-automatic rifles (Gewehr 43 and M1 Garand), why were some soldiers still issued bolt-action rifles like the K98k or the Moisin ? Also, how did soldiers armed with such single-shot weapons do against enemies armed with semi and full-auto rifles?

The more I look at the Mexican-American war, the more I realize how kind of one sided it was. America had better technology, more morale, and much better military minds. Really, I don't see at all hoe Mexico could have won at all, but maybe I'm missing something. Did Mexico have something that might have tipped the odds and let them win?

For instance, were there "German internment camps" in the UK, or "American internment camps" in Japan? I mean, I suppose the Holocaust goes without saying, but that was obviously not to get rid of foreign spies or anything like that.