I did a quick google combining "Vladivostok" and "Lend-Lease" and saw several references that said about half of U.S. Lend-Lease materials to the...
I have wondered why they never re-engined the -52s with more modern turbofan engines, like are on the Boeing airliners. Anyone know? DaveBj
I've heard it said that the B-52 doesn't take off; it just taxies really fast until the curvature of the earth takes the ground out from under it...
Here's a link to a January 1957 Popular Science article on the then-new B-52. I was 10 years old when I read this, and I was certainly impressed....
I just wanted to make sure that this fact didn't get lost in that lengthy article, which I plan to read in detail later. Yasser Arafat was a...
A very interesting twist, with the possibilities of totally bottling up anything that wasn't stuck in the mud. On the one hand, one wonders if...
B-25 = one of my favorite WWII birds. Someone flew one of them onto a small grass airfield south of town when I was a kid. To fly it out, they...
I'm not a collector, but a big +1 to much of what has been posted above. One caveat, however--it does depend on where you have your memorabilia....
I was gonna ask you the same question. Cullman County, about 4.5 miles SW of Exit 304. DaveBj
Off-topic, and not WWII-related, but several USN pilots flying AD-1 Skyraiders (propellor-driven) shot down North Vietnamese MiG-17s in the...
Exactly right. And the Soviets didn't engineer the stew out of everything--"Better is the enemy of good enough" was one of their mottoes. They...
Hi from another newbie. (Been thru Swindon a time or two; spent 4 years just northeast of Gloucester.) DaveBj
Hi, I found you guys after getting tired of the inaction on the two military history forums I was on. Looks like there's a lot more action here...
Bravo11, I recomment the book World War II: A Complete Photographic History (ed. Hal Buell, ISBN1-57912-408-9. It takes the entire war on a...
