Didn't he reach the rank of Admiral of the fleet too?[/b]</font> Yes, he did, shortly before he died in the late 1950s, I think. Yours, Paul
Too little, too late, as usual for Nazi Germany. Having said that, I think the Panther II would've been useful, not as a substitute heavy tank a...
That FT-17 just looks like another easy target to me. Yours, Paul
Pardon me, Bratwurst, but the original novel was written by Jack Higgins, not Alastair MacLean. Yours, Paul
Looks like it, Martin. My brother was in the Engineers in Vietnam, and he's never referred to himself as a "sapper". This website you showed us...
Call it "privileges of rank", though, to give the Devil his due, I understand Himmler sweated and squirmed like crazy to win (just barely) his...
Excuse me, Martin, but so far as I know, we Americans have never referred to our Engineers as "sappers"; they're just plain Engineers to us, if...
I'd say Hermann Goering was basically useless, but Hitler hung on to him for so long out of misplaced loyalty to an "old fighter" who'd been with...
Had the Germans won the war, and Heydrich survived it to seek the Fuehrership, I think he'd have found a way to eliminate all possible...
Wasn't it Kitchener who said, "All war is an atrocity"? Yours, Paul
Kenneth Macksey, in his superb little bio of Rommel, gave the Good Book the final word, which I thought (and still think) was appropriate: "Put...
It wasn't just Lancasters that ended their days so "prematurely", Hoppy. Many B-24 Liberators completed after the European War ended were flown...
One thing I really like about the Lee-Enfield (in my case, the #4 Mk. 1) is its magazine capacity of ten rounds compared to the five of the Mauser...
Let's not forget the fuel situation. It's all very good to have lots of planes (Adolf could thank Albert Speer for that), but without the fuel...
GAG, with all due respect, the Tiger, for all its qualities, was never meant to be the main-strength tank of the German Army; the Panther was....
Quite so; can't afford to manufacture martyrs, y'know. Yours, Paul
That it was, Duce; I prefer the "long 75" to the "long 88" myself. But the fact is, the only version of the Panther to pack an 88mm gun in WWII...
Duce, we thrashed out the question of IR-equipped Panthers at Feldgrau.net, and the final word there is, that IR-equipped Panthers never were used...
Actually, I'd say the Germans had a potentially superior weapon by the late stages of the war; the MP-44/StG-44 assault rifle, the ancestor of the...
Again, let's not forget training. No matter how good a weapons system may be theoretically, it's not going to be very useful if the people...
