What ? Creator of Jack Ryan and John Clark is DEAD ? May He Rest in Peace. He made me read most inspiring and world/history/technology describing...
It is like Vietnam. Once you commit your forces you must be prepared to commit yourselves fully with every resource and you have to present...
A wonderful coincidence of S-33 (American submarine ) resembling a German Milch Cow supply submarine (there is no resemblence , the shape and...
Ahhh U-571.....I remember that piece of art(!) 1) German supply subs had torpedo tubes (?) 2) Americans were decrypting Enigma ? (some one...
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Thank goodness annual leave has finally arrived. I booked on a European tour a few months ago-starting Paris , Brussels and finally Amsterdam for...
In Channel Islands (1940) there was no resistance. They were abandoned and defenseless due to close proximity to French shores Operation Merkur...
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That was towards at the end of war 1945. There is one unintended consquence of German naval losses in Norwegian Camaign. Most of Kriegsmarine...
Here in Turkey one of the running jokes is if military lost its apetite for making coups in every 15 or 20 years. Army intervening Turkish...
Hello Tim , greeting from Turkey...
Actually Churchill remarked that in his memoirs how captured German airmen were released by French after armistice in June 1940 and how they had...
I don't think making peace with Britain at third or fourth week of May 1940 was Hitler's priorty. When Hitler visited Feld-Marshall Von Rundstedt...
As for battle movies I have several favorites A Bridge Too Far (last of the great war movies) Battle of Britain Enemy at the Gates (I know it is...
That wouldn't happen though unless someone radical like British Fascist Oswald Mosley or a appeaser like Hoare , Lord Halifax , Baldwin or...
US entering the war sealed the fate of Nazi Germany in short term and shortened the war (limited the remainder of figting to 3-4 years otherwise...
No doubt Patton had racists views (though he was pragmatic enough to form All Afro American fighting units when he needed ) actually A LOT OF...
I would say either Rokossovsky then Koniev and Zhukov.....Those three were also in competition with Stalin's backing...
Any large scale war material brought to Britain from US purchased and paid either in cash with dollar currency or by credit (except smaller scale...
Sorry while I meant Russians I meant both Russian and Ukranian , Baltic and Caucaus nationals who elected to remained loyal to Soviet Union....
