Artillery was probably far worse than portrayed by Hollywood. Movies are constrained by time, space and money. There is a limit to how much CGI...
How did the British 6 inch and 8 inch guns and mounts compare? The 6 inch armed Cruisers gave a good account of themselves in several surface...
Try searching using the Russian term маскировка Maskirovka. Russian military deception - Wikipedia I have quoted this bit because I first...
The two can be linked as in the deception plans for El Almein where tanks were disguised as trucks in the North and dummy tanks appeared in the...
Its from the Ghost Army website. Sure, dummies may have played a part in some of the strat4giuc deceptions such as supportign the fake army group...
A long time ago I was taught that the concealment was about a lot more than the paint scheme. The key was to avoid the tell tale signs of......
Sounds a bit like the German Jews recruited by the British into X Commando. I met one in 2007 at a Remembrance event at Canada House. He was in...
So the the much maligned aerial bombardment destroyed the ability of this battery to fulfil its mission..(as it did with the Pointe du hoc...
Conceptually you are correct. The Bren/universal carrier was an armoured battle taxi, as was the sdkfz 250/ 251, M2 M3 and Kangaroo. All...
The short answer is that like all soldiers they worked for as little as they could get away with, bit longer than they wanted. I'll get my...
Ahh, but maybe Montgomery was too chinless to wear the hat properly.. \
He thoiught very highly of the Australians and New Zealanders. His tank driver was much less enamoured of the hat which kept blowing away. At some...
Here is a link to my 2p on Op Market Garden posted by my alter ego Pteranadon .it is post #4 New Mission Verbs It is a little too rude for this...
Rerally? This is all done with IL2 The quality of visuals hasn't advanced much in the last 20 years. This was originally made in 2001 [MEDIA]
In the First World War self mutilation in the trenches carried the death penalty. In thi case two indian soldiers were sentanced to death, but...
th That was the case before 1916, betwene 1919 and 1939 and between 1962 (or whenever National Service ended and 1990). The National Services...
The meeting of the SWC held in Paris on 5 February 1940 was the first to be attended by Winston Churchill, who, as First Lord of the Admiralty,...
What rot. Montgomery did organise and run a study week on the lessons learned from El Alamein during the week 14-18 Feb(?) 1943. Montgomery's...
I guess aircrew will have a preference for the aircraft that enabled them to survive the war. B26 had a poor safety reputation - supported by the...
Until 1st September 1944 Montgomery was the commander of allied land force operations, including those of the 12th US Army Group as well as the...
