Like the show, love the acting and the special effects. It's like Conan the Barbarian goes to Middle Earth and runs into Harry Potter at the...
Nor did it prevent him from awarding unearned medals to others. LBJ's silver star comes to mind......
Found this on youtube - a Japanese produced animated tour of a Yamato turret showing how the mechanical systems operated. Nice detail. Now only...
IIRC, the Graf Spee's Arado seaplanes were put out of commission by cold sea water causing cylinder cans to crack. I don't think it was a design...
The American Civil War then and now... Listen to historians while fading back and forth between the "then" photos and the "now". "The women who...
Vossenack cemetery is the final resting place of Field Marshal Walter Model. His headstone does not state his rank, just his name and dates....
If the range is close enough one could legally use a golf club.... [media]
Jammers are verboten in the USA. The feds won't even allow state and local law enforcement to have them....
How can I deal with a drone that violates my personal airspace? The law prevents me from deploying any of my AAA assets, including even a wimpy...
Welcome to the forum. The 563rd SAW was the subject of a thread on this forum a few years ago:...
Trust issues... [media]
Nice pix, Fred. In the background of the first image of post #9, the Germans are using a sound locator. One operator would look for the...
The purplish or "plum" tint comes from molybdenum, which is sometimes added to steel to improve its hardenability. Bluing is an oxidizing process...
Oops... "John Bordne, a resident of Blakeslee, Penn., had to keep a personal history to himself for more than five decades. Only recently has the...
That photo was taken in Bischwiller, France, on December 9, 1944. A copy of it appears on page 141 of History of the 313th Infantry in World War...
"In terms of casualties, using the Army Campaign credit framework is problematic, because it includes casualties incurred by the Ninth U.S. Army,...
While looking for info about the Pearl Harbor attack, I ran across this video about Lt's Welch and Taylor. It's a very good summary of their...
High casualty rates among officers were common in that era. At the Revolutionary War battle of Kings Mountain, 32 Patriots were killed or mortally...
The Wereth Massacre is an example of what SS guys did to African American POW's... http://www.wereth.org/en/home
Good article. It's amazing that they could identify the soldier with so little to go on. The following surprised me as well: "An estimated 50,000...
