Knock it off with those negative waves, man. It's Oddball's birthday. [ATTACH]
I am shortly going to be teaching a class about the American World War II novel, focusing on the three books which are regarded as classics in...
I did a quick image search. Nearly all wartime images of Priests in British and Canadian service seem to show the M7. The attached image does show...
This question is provoked by a recent discovery. Apparently the US produced a tungsten-cored HVAP round for the 75mm M3 gun, designated T45. As...
Agreed. My notional Allied WWII army standardizes on the Thompson and M3, but units in the Jap war get Owens as often as they can grab them.
I am always leery of these "best of x" discussions. Criteria for bad/good/best are seldom stated, nobody tries to put numbers to anything, and the...
Entirely appropriate for MARKET-GARDEN, though.
Firearms will continue to get uglier and still uglier.
I am not disputing this, just pointing out that some were harder to clean than others. Or so I have read. Everything has a weakness, but as Norman...
I've been through the Mojave and it is no place to linger in. Accounts of the North African campaign agree that the sand got in absolutely...
Suzi was the Bomb.
There is a good discussion of the whole thing here: Request. M4A3(75w) Re armed 76mm lost photos
This post is provoked by a video from Nicholas Moran, AKA the Chieftain. In the course of discussing the development of the late-war Sherman with...
I've been on an 80s binge lately, and few exemplified that era as well as Robert Palmer: [MEDIA]
I remember that series. I only saw a little of it, but I liked what I saw. It certainly made your blood run cold thinking of what those sappers...
Just watching and hearing that damned thing go off gives me a better idea of what the war and the Blitz were really like than any number of books.
Thanks very much for the thoughtful and well-informed reply. As I said at the top, I am far from an expert about the Guadalcanal naval campaign or...
I wish you all the best with it, whatever the problem is.
I have recently read Hornfleischer's book about the naval campaign of Guadalcanal. I am not an expert on the subject, but the book enthralled me...