Depends if the weight penalty wasn't to great....a two-row radial, extra bracing and bulkheading, extra strengthening for the increased stresses...
No, it was the turned agents of the XX Committee that were drafting/sending the reports. This was one of the great BRITISH intelligence coups of...
IIRC a few were given access to radios so their "fist" would be recognisable by their assigned operator back at the Abwehr. Every Morse Code...
I've read the entire Zinsser account - and the various shortened/edited versions floating around with the bits that would allow verification....or...
...and let's not forget hung. The four "Dutchmen" who came ashore in August in Kent with a couple of days radio, officers' uniforms, and short...
WAIT A SEC! Got it :) It's Fort Casey on Puget Sound. http://www.whidbeynewstimes.com/news/zombies-just-warming-up-at-fort-casey/ God I'm good :)
I know, I know - useless LOL But two things leap out from other shots - the finale action takes place in two different AA gun positions. As it's...
Only small, poor ones off the net... [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]
The sheer cost of getting a WW2 tracked vehicle back on the road....or keeping one on the road....is absolutely HUGE. Yes there are some...
Can any of our American members by any chance identify the WW2 era defensive works that provide the backdrop to the last ten minutes of the last...
Oh come on, NORDPOL can be a bit hard to turn up these days under that name ;) It's the one other biggie to rack up as a German success though -...
Yes, I'm a bit at a loss regarding "Hitler had defeated France and damn near broke the RAF in the battle of Brittain at that point."....as as of...
Other considerations.... Sometimes two, but mostly THREE crew, their equipment and flying positions. Three bodies, flying kit, oxygen etc. is a...
Except... 1/ that's what the French used the CharBs for on the day....and thus wasted them; 2/ the majority of the Somuas were with the French...
Throwing complete units of their best/heaviest into battle without allowing their fuel bowsers to catch up and refuel them after a long forward...
It was the development budget that was £15,000, each individual production tank cost c. £5000. This from the Tank Museum's own site.
"Spanish" tungsten and wolfram...actually mined in Portugal and sneaked across the border onto the Spanish metals market...was never available in...
It wasn't supposed to offer a big bang for the buck anyway....more a rat-at-at-tat. And IIRC was a very quickly-designed way of getting an...
Useful, yes...but K-P's comment and my reply was just regarding speed (deployment and movement), not versatility. And the Hellcat really only...
Is that actually a problem though? Despite limbering time etc...surely a towed AT gun on the road still has a faster road speed than most if not...