Interesting photo. Hitler was fascinated by the capital ships, but failed to properly invest in the Kriegsmarine until it was too late. Of...
What very little kit building I see anymore has to do with R/C cars and drones. Our local hobby shop here in Salem closed last Fall. For many...
Great thread, I have enjoyed reading
That sound right. Good memory.
^^^That's right. People are nasty creatures. You don't rise up and stay on top of the food chain for 2 million years otherwise. We are nasty...
I seem to remember in Otto Carius book he describes having to hand over his pistol before having dinner with Himmler. I imagine security for...
The British were behind the killing of notorious SS man Reinhard Heydrich. There was also a British plan to assassinate Rommel. I thought this was...
Thank you. I did end up getting a Hurricane Mk. I and a Bf-109E-4 from eBay and I have my eye on a Spitfire Mk II also. I might pull the trigger...
Very nice work! The Corsair is a beautiful and underrated airplane that served well beyond WWII. I used to build a lot of models before I was...
US Foreign Policy has been at low ebb for some time now. The heavyweights are gone. This is amateur hour. And not just amateurs, but arrogant...
If you are ever driving up the Oregon Coast I recommend the Tillamook Air Museum. Most of the WWII Aircraft were recently relocated to Eastern...
That makes sense as the Nazis banned political groups they couldn't co-opt. I know at one point Hitler revised his views on the Church to suit the...
Very interesting, that seems like a lot of cigarettes. I smoked for many years, but rarely more than 15 cigarettes a day. I tried smoking Lucky...
Mussolini was a Socialist before becoming a Fascist. He was also a journalist, and (I believe) wound up owning one or more newspapers in Italy. A...
..And Poles and Czechs as well! I just started collecting 1/72 aircraft, so I only have 3 (B-24H, Halifax Mk III, P-51B, with a Short Stirling on...
Fantastic recommendation - thank you!
Welcome aboard. I am interested in the state of Panzer operations at this late stage of the war. To what extent did they still function as a...
Thank you for the tip! I am working my way through the Battle of Britain on The History of WWII Podcast. There are about 15 episodes devoted to...
I believe the G3 has outlasted the M14 and FAL in active service. I shoot the G3 far better than the FAL. The diopter sights on the G3 are far...
As a collector of WWII and Cold War small arms I had to have a FAL. Mine is a DSA FAL (Belgian clone late 70s) and it is about as accurate as an...
