As a teenager, I would go coon hunting with our neighbor. He was captured at the Bulge and came back with a souvenir Luger. I found it to be a...
The problem that I have with what ifs, is that it cannot address the big question. No matter what is changed, no one has come up with a solution...
A few years ago, I had the chance to go through a B-17 and B-24 at the local airport. I climbed through every bit of the planes, gleefully...
One of my favorite books is Maudlin's Up Front. His description of a soldier writing a letter home, using a pencil stub and a candle stuck to his...
I hate to say it, but the C-47. A beauty of function. If you want combat planes, it would be the P51D, and B17G. And I have always had a...
If Japan had not attacked Pearl Harbor, they would have continue southward and westward. I don't see anything that would stop them, The U.S....
Yes, the British had a lot of poorly trained pilots. In a lot of cases, when a pilot showed an ability to survive and not let the German pilots...
It takes decades to train officers how to deal with with the bureaucracies and logistic systems of an army. A general is as much a product of the...
Germany could have never won for the simple reason that they could not maintain their economy and they could not maintain their military growth....
The big question might be more whether or not the Italian campaign was fought intelligently. The answer to that would be mostly, no. The problem...
White Christmas; Irving Berlin; Bing Crosby
It is not that Germany did any one thing wrong to lose the war. It is that they did so many things wrong. They had some excellent engineers, but...
Never underestimate the value of morale and propaganda. A bold and daring attack would have been well received by the Germans and its allies....
To clarify my earlier statement, I think that they would have to take the philipines. Australia would not be an attractive target, but would be...
The ME109 was the German aviation equivalent of the British MG roadster. It did a lot of things because of its small size, but it could bite you...
They would have made quick workout of the Philipines and taken Midway. I think they would then concentrate on isolating Australia and taking...
Without getting too psychoanalytical, I saw a show about how the guards and prisoners would become so desensitized that they considered what they...
Scared the heck out of me. I could do without the side borders, but overall nice.
A good show. It was interesting about the reaction from the internment camps. In all honesty, I think that some of the inhabitants of the camps...
In any accident investigation, on of the first things that is checked is whether or not one of the crew members had a bone to pick. A...
