We'll Any whiz-kids could clear this up. Too long out of school to remember this one. Popski
G'day I think that a mug was a mug in those day's and not get too concerned about the colour. The pre-war mugs were white but later on they got...
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G'day Kai Thought that the V-2 launched straight up upto 80 kilometres and than went down to earth . The earth rotating underneath provided the...
G'day Have seen several colours. The above mentioned brown mug in several shades of brown, but also white and green-ish. They are marked WD and...
But Vlaamse Leeuw You'll be missing the most of the commemoration. I'll be of on the 30th of May with my family. My BSA M20 will be on a trailer....
Thank's Martin Hope to see her in Normandy, is it a sort of testflight or an event?? Cheers Pop
G'day Searching for information on British Identification Discs. I read that the ID discs were used in WWI, and they found out while digging up...
G''day To single out the unit''s would require a sort of Band of Brothers aproach to give every unit it's own episode, that would be a good...
G'day The USAAF criteria for a succesful raid was achieved if only ONE single bomb fell closer to the targetpoint than five miles. Not very...
Friedrich Looking at the ear-lobe on the first picture, that ear-lobe is bigger (hangs down) while in the von Rundstedt picture they are small....
Noname The bombing of German cities is in my opinion not the best option for fighting war. But the Allies just did it better than the Germans did...
No offence taken Bratwurst But your comment only made me explain my comment clearer. Maybe my English is not clear enough sometimes for another...
My comment was intended to get the historical picture wright.The comment NoName did is a only half the truth. After a while it is time to let this...
Indeed General The plane got lost on the 10th of May1940 near Maasmechelen in BELGIUM. Allways thought it was in Holland :rolleyes: . But no...
NoName Who started that bloody war and who started bombing cities?? War is hell and not all is that pleasant. It is still a hard topic about the...
G'day After 60 years it is time to move on, is my opinion. But not to forget. Oradeur sur Glane is never to be forgotten and Never forgiven....
G;day The Fall Gelb plan was already known because of a German plane getting lost and landing in Holland before May 1940. This did not ring any...
"Friendly Fire" also happened in WWII 2 :D . Saw an article in a 1940 Lancet medical paper that people in bomb shelters got a sort of trench...
G'day I like the book by Field Marshal Lord Carver "Britain's Army oin the 20th Century". Because it also tells about the build up of the army...