Me, too! The granddaddy of them all . . . . . .
Best book I've read about Dresden so far is "Firestorm: Allied Airpower and the Destruction of Dresden", by Marshall De Bruhl.
Who would? It's an interesting concept, but a complete waste of valuable resources. It had Dr. Ferdinand Porsche's petrol-electric drive that he...
I don't know what you mean about "removed and replaced or something"; the initial prototype was tested with a "dummy" turret made out of concrete...
NOT created in Russia; the only surviving example is in Russia (the Kubinka museum outside of Moscow), but the "tank" (if you can call it that)...
Not to quibble, but the Mustang actually ended up with an entirely different engine shortly after it entered service; it started life with an...
Contra-rotating props don't really give you "more thrust", it just converts the engine torque into thrust more efficiently; some of the power from...
Agree with you on the 5-year old thing, having had a few of them myself (5-year olds, that is); I think I still have a 2-year old Happy Meal under...
All of the pictures I've seen of these tanks show them in what looks to be a government equipment yard of some sort, and there are quite a few...
Erich, sounds like you live in Humboldt County?
Wow. Where did that troll come from?
Actually, that was Jennifer Jason Leigh before she became a "serious actress" in the '90's.
Out of curiosity (since I know next to nothing about vintage WWII helmets), what purpose did the cork/sand serve?
Haven't had a chance to do much research on the atrocities committed by the Nazis during WWII, but if you want to read a good fictionalized (and...
It might actually have been cheaper; the Seabees generally used crushed coral and Marsden Matting on many of the airstrips in the Pacific,...
IIRC, Hitler named Dönitz as his successor during the last days of the War; not Himmler, not Göring, but Dönitz. IMHO, actually, the Wehrmacht...
In celebration of the annual Reno Air Races this weekend, I would like to postulate the "ultimate" Unlimited air racer. Suppose you have unlimited...
Most of the German WWII armor that hasn't already been snapped up by collectors and/or restorers appears to be in Eastern Europe, Bulgaria in...
I gotta give you kudos, Wiley; you appear to "know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em", in the parlance of an earlier era. You strike me as a...
The only other one I can think of is the German post-War Kanonenjagdpanzer.