The Bismarck was fitted out in a rush with a selection of what was available at the time. Even the heavy AA battery was a half and half mix of...
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[IMG] Mixes military with sci-fi.
They were that big because they doubled as entrenching tools don't ya know?
Then you just end up with an inline radical abomination of an engine, like the Chrystler Multibank [IMG]
Because the Russian attack / support helicopters are largely designed to perform missions like the US Army used helicopters in Vietnam. Theirs...
It is entirely plausible that the world's first attack helicopter could have been invented during WW 2. I would say this would be the invention...
I'd recommend this book on sniping and the US civil war to ww 1: [img] Civil War chief of Sharpshooters Hiram Berdan : military commander and...
It was on his draft registration you posted above at the bottom. I simply looked the company up. They're in Houston now, they might still have a...
Well, the address is slightly off. 2402 1/2 Robinson St should be Avenue. The building still stands but is mostly empty now. It is apartments...
Now, if you don't think that's enough firepower, you replace your 40mm with an Elco Thunderbolt gun mount with 4 x 20mm and 2 x .50 caliber... [IMG]
The typical armament for a 78ft Higgins PT boat by 1943-44 was 2 x 20mm guns (one bow, one amidships), 4 x .50 machineguns in two twin mounts, 1...
On dazzle paint: The PT squadron 207 served in was one of two that got that sort of dazzle paint, one squadron in the Med, the other in the...
You could give it that boat's original camouflage... [IMG]
Another B-29 has been restored to flying condition by a dedicated group of volunteers. The Restoration of B29 'Doc' - Saved from a Desert Death -...
An interesting, but little-known use of late war heavy AA directors, usually the SCR 584 or SCR 545, was for directing counterbattery or air...
Doesn't have that small black circle or hole right below the cockpit like the XP-75 does, as does the original picture. Or, it could well be a P-51D.
It's an XP-75 Eagle probably S/N 44-32166 [IMG] Well, that took all of 30 seconds...
This lists all available histories on the 104th Engineers: 104th Engineer Regiment.pdf (armyheritage.org) This link is by the 104th Engineers...
