... US pre-Dreadnought; Kilkis or Lemnos? Ooops! Too late!
... are incomplete, and a tad misleading. Dealing with the period in question i.e. 1942 and into 1943, while Soviet oil production dropped from...
The F/A-18E/F Super Hornet a bigger, longer, wider, more powerful Hornet, a new aircraft although there is some commonality with the older F/A-18...
To start with, the RN really didn't want anything to do with Arctic Convoys, they were Churchillian, a political expedient; they sailed as...
... that the alternative Super Hornet is a much more cost effective aircraft for Canada. It's multi-role, proven to be equally good in both,...
Last Friday i.e. the 13th, marked my 30th anniversary on the job - while I initially hadn't planned on it, I can retire. But I've been off work...
Actually that 7% represents "loss rate of matériel", shipping losses were 7.8% eastbound, 3.8% westbound. The convoys were only suspended because...
... the exact opposite is true. The Soviet industrial sector was relatively new, and rather than being coal based like the older established...
I'm thinking in Yankee Country that story would start with "Once upon a time ...", end with " ... and he turned into a handsome Prince", whereupon...
... especially someone's personal history come to life.
I'm sure most of you are already aware of this as it made the news some time ago but Frida Lyngstad, the ABBA brunette, was a Lebensborn child...
Deborah Harry was OK, but I never cared much for testosterone driven gal singers in otherwise male oriented type rock bands. That said, my fav...
... sounds like you got a copy too.
... personally I preferred the lovely Miss Williams in calico, the lyrical complexity, violins, and chainsaws of "Butcher Baby", oh yeah, oh no...
OK, I received a joke via e-mail from my bud serving in Afghanistan. It's current to his locale, however it's quite ... off-colour, and clearly...
The Picts were a Celtic tribe that emigrated to Hibernia (Ireland) then Caledonia (Scotland) from Poitou in modern day France. Poitou is a Roman...
Tom, I caught the show as well, or at least most of it. The bit on Poland was well done, as was how hostilities were initiated by Germany, and...
As stated, the top is a US M2 medium, the other photo (Wiki?) looks like an early M3 Light (as opposed to the M3 medium Lee/Grant), which morphed...
As opposed to weapons and big battles, I've always had a preference for "background" in history, if you can understand the background, the big...
Portugal, actually known as “Britain’s Oldest Ally” (since 1374), apart from the Pacto Iberico with Spain in 1939, was officially neutral for much...
