Some early models of Helicopter did see service with the US & Germany during WW2 but only in limited numbers. Whether they'd have made a...
Them sneeky Japs wouldn't have been so sneeky in Malaya or Burma I reckon ... :ehm:
The ones I mentioned above are all Strategy Games. Igo-Ugo. "War in the Pacific" is an absolutely absorbing game when you get in to it. Have spent...
Does anyone play War Games on PC. I play 3 now - War in the Pacific : The Struggle against Japan 1941 - 1945. This is an excellent depiction...
Heh :happy:. Probably made up an Umpah Band and started playing :thumb:
Alas as always hollywood dresses it up how they would want to see it :lame:. Hopefully Peter Jackson won't be hindered by this blinkered view with...
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The British people wanted change. Churchill was a great War Leader but he represented the old guard in Peace Time. Once the Nazis were defeated,...
On 9th May 1941 a Type IXC U-Boat - U-110, Commanded by KapitanLeutnant Fritz-Julius Lemp was attacking Convoy OB318 in the North Atlantic, South...
As Japan began to face overwhelming Allied superiority towards the end of WW2 the Imperial Japanese Navy contemplated suicide attacks to stem the...
The Japanese produced a "Suicide" Rocket Powered Bomb called the "Okha" or Cherry Blossom. Not many were used successfully but they did cause some...
The Chindits were the brainchild of Brigadier Orde Wingate. Wingate was an unorthodox commander who had formed "Gideon Force" during 1940 to...
Yes possibly. The US Army took over the fighting in the last phase of the fighting to take Guadalcanal. Not so sure about Iwo Jima. This was...
There is a train of thought that Roosevelt deliberately set events in motion to provoke Japan in to making an "error" of judgement. Whether there...
[IMG] An aerial view taken from a Japanese Aircraft at the start of the attack. Although the Pearl Harbor attack was a tactical success for...
On Sunday 7th December 1941, Over 350 Aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy, launched from 6 Aircraft Carriers about 200 miles North of the...
The Mitsubishi G4M (Type 1 - Allied Reporting Name - Betty) was the successor to the earlier G3M and was a more advanced aircraft. First flown on...
The IJNAF used 2 principal Land Based bomber aircraft. The Mitsubishi G3M (Type 96 - Allied Reporting Name - Nell) and the Mitsubishi G4M (Type 1...
Another thing I find extraordinary is that even some Germans refused to believe that the Holocaust happened partly in their country. When the...
Did anyone see the documentary called "Bloody Omaha" on BBC 2 the other day ? It was a Time Watch programme. Some very interesting facts have come...
