What did the tens of thousands of sailors in the Normandy area wear? Army issue or Marine Corps issue? the old sailor
not to nitpick but you didn't list where CDR. McClusky went after Enterprise. From Aug 42 to Aug 44, he was attached to various air related...
Another free oldie but goodie, CMH 104-13 Airborne Operations written by the Germans who were involved as either part of the operation or as a...
There was no 'victory disease', it was the mistake of planning for what you want your enemy to do(hiding in Pearl Harbor) rather than planning for...
Spare parts, maintenance, and reliability have been mentioned. The another would be crew training. American armored divisions usually had almost...
The stabilization of gun mounts is part of the Fire Control System outputs. US systems have no separate stabilization system, it is all part of...
There are always 3 dimensions, x,y,z or pitch, yaw, and roll. US ships had the best fire control systems. Japanese and German had better optical...
A short book on German tank maintenance CMH pub 104-7 by General Burkhart H. Mueller-Hillebrand an armored corps and armored army chief of staff....
Just started Hell's Islands by Jersey, covers the battles for Guadalcanal and surrounding islands. A lot of detail about the Japanese side of the...
On bridges, check out CMH 10-4 starting at pg 483. The US Army was still trying to develop a 'portable' bridge in 1945.
And pontoon bridges and regular bridges.
another item missed is numbers. The British from 1940-45 by themselves out produced the Germans 24,800 to 24,360 in tanks. The US in the same...
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One thing to remember was the M4 Sherman was a medium tank, the “Cats” were heavy tanks. the US was developing heavy tanks during WW2, but did not...
A good read is Faint Praise by Charles Baily. Some quotes from Ike and friends, 5/44. (pg102-103) We need 3 tanks armed with 105 howitzer for...
A good read is Faint Praise by Charles Baily. Deep look at the politics behind US tank and tank destroyer development. Folks(McNair) in charge...
I know there was debate over F4F-3 and -4 about guns and folding wings. Guns, I guess 4 was best, as the FM-1 and -2 both had 4. How many more...
You need to understand that this was early in the war and except for Yorktown, this was the first big show. Eventually it was figured out that...
here is some data on AP Bomb penetration. from Dive Bomber by Peter Smith pg 67. A 2000 pound AP bomb had to be dropped from 7000 ft to...
