I think I remember an one-off episode called ASSAULT!!(shown in the summer of 1966 if memory serves me (I'm 70). It was about a Marine squad...
Well,from what I've read,the Panther had a tendency to burn if hit on the side of the turrent. Even the Germans complainted about it.
I have read that the Germans used a low-flash propellant in their weapons,everything from small arms to tank rounds,while the U.S. used a higher...
I have seen photos of the krummlauf attachment to be used in tanks.
Could the Model 24 Stielhandgranate be "bundled"with several grenades attached together?
Sorry,but the first "Haunted Tank"was a M-3 Stuart,not a Sherman. Later on(because it became too unbelievable for a Stuart to keep knocking out a...
Thank you all for your posts.I had my doubts about it,but the OP stated that he got the information from Hideo "Pops"Yoshimura,who was an aircraft...
Did the M9A1 require a blank round,or am I thinking of another anti-tank round?
I was viewing another forum about WW2 aircraft,and someone made a post that during the last weeks of the war the Japanese were so short of...
But while working the bolt of the Mauser you can lose your sight picture,while with the M-1 you can keep it.
I know that the RAF 617 Squadron used an improvised bombsight when they attacked the Mohne,Eder and Sorpe dams,and that the Doolittle Raiders used...
Was the Krummlauf with the 90 degree bend developed to solve this problem?
Well,according to wiki,the Norden bombsight wasn't so supersecret. Herman Lang,a German spy who worked at the Norden plant,leaked the plans for...
Where the atrocities committed by the Japanese so different than those committed by the U.S. against the Native Americans,or the way the...
Thank you,Domi.
I'd guess that the treatment of POWs in WW2 depended on the theater and the enemy.In late 1942 a British officer and the heir to the Players...
Thank you,Nigel. This is just what I need!
My father's name was Keels W.Duncan. He was drafted in Spartenburg,S.C.and was in the infantry.He was listed as MIA in March 1943,then as a POW in...
The U.S.sent both M3 Grants and M4A2 Shermans. The Soviets didn't like the M3,they called it the"coffin for six brothers"because the M3 had six...
I know that the British used Reverse Lend-Lease to supply the U.S.Military with weapons and equipment,everything from Spitfires and patrol boats...
