OK Where and when did British Regulars (not Territorials) first engage German forces in WW2? Jumbo
No service I'm afraid, my armed forces didn't think I was good enough to defend my country until two years ago! I suppose the worst nearly...
Friedrich I can't sing Baroque but I can do Mozart, I suppose because there are good baritone parts. I still enjoy a good crack at Figaro. Still...
Otto's right. He's started this and created a community, not just about military facts but also about people and issues. I've not been posting...
It's interesting that, with all this talk of war coming from the White House, they have sod all military experience. It's also the case that the...
Berlin probably wasn't possible: not only did the failure to cut the Beveland peninsular allow the escape of Van Zangens 15th Army, it also...
I know it was the Metaxas line, named after the dictator General Metaxas. Or a famous brand of Ouzo, take your pick. Metaxas was pretty much...
I suppose I need to come up with a question. Whose portrait photograph unusually adorned Hitlers Bunker in a place which many members of his...
If it's the winter war then I could see it being the only way to use those little Madsen 20mm things, and you could roll that out of a hole pretty...
Erich It's easy really. The Germans tell the French, and then the French tell everybody. So the US shares intel with the UK, Canada, Australia...
Friedrich Vasili was a drunk, who Stalin threw into the Lubyanka for a week to teach him a lesson. A sad specimen. Whilst at school he wrote a...
With respect Friedrich, this is all a bit open to interpretation. We could go as far back as the Roman Legions to look at self-contained units...
Erich Because the US government would prefer to trust it's own sources, and those derived through the UKUSA agreement, than a NATO ally. The...
Mr Evans I think I got made Sergeant because I can give commands in German and have a good voice: I can screw up a company dispersal as well as...
Sorry to hear about that Friedrich. Hope that you and the other half are fine and not too shaken up. You can always get another car: it's whether...
Andreas Fewer on Hawaii than in the Phillipines that's for sure...
Andreas Quite right: the Al-Shifa factory, although it made anti-malarial vaccines not babyfood (that was in Iraq). This just goes to show how...
Kai Divisions were not a British invention by any means! The usual 18th century formation of Wing.Division.Brigade was pretty well standardised....
Crazy I don't think that Clinton distracted the US public in a deliberate fashion. He did fire Cruise missiles at Sudan and pressurise the...
My dream is to own an original Order of Maria Theresa. I won't be alloweed to wear it on the field (I'm a sergeant - I work for a living) but......
