Thanks, makes sense.
Can someone enlighten me on how well the Norden bombsight actually worked? I saw one a couple years ago at an air force museum and the employee...
Wow, thanks for the detailed response. One can learn a lot on this forum!
I saw a lecture on Youtube by author Rick Atkinson in which he said that we got 10 hours of use out of our Sherman tanks for every one hour of...
Thanks Carronade. It just seems a bit peculiar to me that we launched two amphibious assaults (Sicily and Normandy) to dislodge the Germans. I...
Just thinking about this. What was the purpose in going into Sicily and then up the boot in Italy? We stopped after we captured Rome and then...
My father was in the US Army Air Force in WW2 and I was going through some of the mementos he left me before he died. Among the pictures and...
I'm a relative newcomer but it appears to me that WWIIF is more of a US board and WW2talk is more UK oriented. Is this an accurate perspective?
Good question George. I guess he planned it with them beforehand because I remember my aunt telling me about it too, so she knew how it worked.
I'm new to this forum so don't know if anyone has posted anything similar but I'd like to relate a story my father told me about how he would...
Thanks Graybeard! I never did any research on his unit so this is much appreciated.
Hello WWIIF! My name is Rick, but my username is the name of the street I lived on for the first 18 years of my life. I now live in the Dallas,...
