Must be tough navigating when you're facing in the opposite direction.
It should have been the Midway the Japanese were dreaming about. Let the Enterprise and Hornet re-arm and rush towards Coral Sea --to be met by...
I recall in the older thread that AT rockets weren't really all that effective. I suppose that has to be qualified. I'm not a big fan of the A-10,...
The Kiruna Mine had enough iron to build the US Third Fleet. How fast you mine and process is another question, of course.
It has ammo pouches so it's not something you discard upon landing (unless you transfer the magazines to another pouch.) Those are belt and leg...
And the winner... best in its category from 1935 to 1945 (maybe even later.) [IMG]
Thanks for the reply, guys. Too many gun writers nowadays talk about walnut as "never that plentiful." They were probably commissioned to say that...
I got production numbers for the the following rifles with the estimated production period: M1 Garand- 5 million (WW2-Korea) Mauser '98 9...
I recall in one Skorzeny book that Himmler was just presenting one of his famous "ideas in the air" which Skorzeny, neither a navy nor a rocket...
I'm not usually into animal rights stuff but I've always considered those nose rings somewhat primitive. Has to be a better way.
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I suppose you fabricated that internal wing rib. I doubt if the model came with it.
Wasn't outlandishly large in comparison. They just had a lot of aluminum to work with.
I read long ago that Kimmel's family has been batting for some kind of rehabilitation of his image; whether some kind of official confirmation, or...
It's not true that some of them were armed with just pistols, right?
Well, thanks for those corrections. He was promoted. But to a reader like me, I'll of course question the move to take him out of the SOPAC...
Slightly on-topic. So why was Fletcher eased into back-office and eventual retirement whereas Spruance went on to command more than 1,000...
Thanks for the replies, guys. I got the answer I needed. And yes, I was referring to the inverted gull, and there are two I know (the Stuka and...
Only one single-engine plane I could think of (you know.) so?
Versatile and tough as hell perhaps. Now, how easy was it to fly, especially for new pilots, or even seasoned ones used to other aircraft? It had...