I've just managed to get hold of the original from Amazon in a 3 Film Box Set which also includes "The Cruel Sea" another classic :thumb:
During the 1930's one of several fundamental fighter debates concerned the Long-Range Escort. Generally assumed to be twin engined, and have a...
Lord of the Rings & King Kong Director - Peter Jackson is to remake the classic 1954 film The Dam Busters. He is said to have loved watching it as...
If you've ever watched "The Longest Day" I think that gives a pretty good idea of what the Germans thought on seeing the D-Day Armada approaching...
The Me 163 was designed by Alexander Martin Lippisch. It was the first military aircraft designed to use a rocket engine and it was the fastest...
Lancaster B Mk III Special : Operation Chastise Before the later Tall Boy & Grandslam Bombs were developed, Barnes Wallace had devised another...
Agreed +1. I was watching "The lost evidence" on History Channel the other night. It was the one about Peleleu in the Palau Islands. They...
Yes there were 2 posthumous VC's awarded to Stirling Pilots as well I found out. The last version was the Mk V. This was built from late 1944...
The BAR dates back to WW1 and was designed by John Browning as a replacement for the French Chauchat and Hotchkiss M1909 light Machine Guns. It...
Stirlings taking part in Operation Market Garden - [img][img] Paratroops of 3rd Battalion, 21st Independant Parachute Brigade board...
By 1944 the first conversions had taken place to the Mk IV Stirling from earlier Mk III's. Here is one of the prototype Mk IV's fitted with Glider...
Short S.29 Stirling Number built : 2383 Manufactured at : Shorts Rochester, Shorts/Harland Belfast, Austin Motors Entered Service :...
In the 1930's the RAF were concerned with Twin Engined Medium Bombers such as the Handley Page Hampden & Armstrong Whitworth Whitley. In the USA &...
Heh :wink: I wouldn't mind betting they'd do that. I would like to see something on History Channel or Discovery about it though ...
I didn't see that thread. Most of the info comes from a Wikipedia article. I suspect that because of it's simple construction it may well have...
And the thing is that the veterans are now getting fewer & fewer. Quite how they managed to the the job knowing how much the odds were against...
The later Night Fighter versions such as the NF 36 were used until the mid 1950's as All Weather Night/Day interceptors, The squadrons equipped...
NF Mk II Night Fighter under restoration & The FB Mk XVIII with 57mm Molins gun protruding under the nose. [img][img]
Like most of the world's great combat aircraft the Mosquito owed nothing to any official specification but was the result of dogged persistance by...
Thanks Kelly. I'll look it up at some point although we usually play online on the 360 more. My PC is Cream Crackered at the moment after it got...
