Isnt it funny how some types of battlefield killing can somehow be labelled as "worse" or even "better" than others? It seems to me that...
Whats the joke I heard many years ago? What is Austria's chief accomplishment after ww2 ended? Convincing the world that Hitler was German..
Was Lend Lease a factor in the 1941 fighting? No.... Was it a factor in the 1942 fighting? Not really. Sufficient quantities had not arrived,...
I am fully aware of the political justifications. But Im also fully aware that food shortages and lack of oil were the principle reasons for...
Hang on a sec... Wasn't Barbarossa launched in response to food and oil shortages that were starting to bight? Wasn't it a gamble born of...
Just another thought... That same Army General (Ralph Smith) was also on record to claim that Tarawa, and Betio in partivular, could have been...
Speaking of tactics, wasn't there some kind of disagreement between the U.S. Army and the U.S. Marines over the operational and tactical conduct...
spot on...told you it was easy...your up class of 42.... One of the Patton biographies I have read described a very famous fight betyween Telek...
IF a man had gone to Mars, it would be a public relations bonanza.... I don't believe it at all. I have seen the "tunneller" footage from...
Patton: My soldiers call me "Blood and guts"! Montgomery: My soldiers call me "Monty" Bradley: My soldiers don't know who I am at all!
oh darn...I don't know how to post pictures. So Ill ask just a question, an easy one related to "Ike", to keep the quiz rolling... What was the...
Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Gentleman, and Ladiies, According to the Second Book of David Glantzs "Stalingrad Trilogy" The actual desciaion to put the Stalingrad Airlift in...
The game system would not al;low you to shoot at things on deck like guns......even when up close and right next to a target in port, those guns...
Other things I remember...…. When starting a new bboat, you can get new crew members, quite a few of them, for zero renown. I used to fill up my...
oops....my exwifes activities continue to haunt me. corlett must have been under Macarthur's command then while serving in the Pacific. Whatever...
Comrades, you must not be so critical for our commissar giving us medals for making our beds.....for most of the war, we didn't sleep in a bed!!!
my approach to SH4 was, I believe, unique.... I would play with 100% realism and as many variants turned on as to make it as realistic as...
This reminds me very much of a cartoon I once saw in "Purnells History of the Second World War" referring to the Soviet problems in Finland. The...
Can the forum provide a recording with translation of the after dinner speech delivered by Adolf Hitler around the time of operation "Hubertus",...
