Availability and strategic situation tended to determine whether an aircraft was assigned a particular role. For the RAF: Hawker Hurricanes were...
Every war has its own characteristics By the end of the war there were two types of fighter aircraft. 1. Aircraft originally conceived as...
That was the theory in the 1930s The Mig 1-3 Spitfire and Me109 were designed was interceptors. Fast high rate of climb. Limited fuel capacity...
British pay was a fraction of American pay. American privates were paid like British lieutenants. The black market was also encouraged by the...
According to Pemberton 1950 May 1942 with the use of the BBC time signal to synchronize Gunner time.
German Losses Stalingrad Combined German losses of 6th Army and 4th Panzer were over 300,000 men 900 aircraft destroyed 1,500 tanks destroyed...
What was the large hole in German law? They charged him as an accomplice to murder of 27,000 people because he was there as a guard.
You wanna try the short online course I am enduring/enjoying Empire - Online Course Its about the controversies of the British Empire - or why...
Michael Burleigh covers the case at some length in Moral Combat - I reproduced his conclusion, that the controversy has been promoted with the aim...
Spot on. Only the USSR could have done anything. If they had wanted to do. In September 1944 t5he British Board of Deputies asked the Soviet Union...
Sorry but the opposite is true. Chiefs of the General Staff are appointed because they are the senior military professionals answerable to...
Nope. Marshall was a politically astute american general. It suited him to argue that the only strategy should have been a frontal attack across...
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The short answer is both. Stalin was a great bad man
There have been several counterfactual discussions on Italy. The short answer is no. #1 The Italian campaign led to the defection of Italy,...
One of the Indian divisions (8th?10th?) replaced the 92nd north of Lucca. One British officer observed that for native troops to fight well,the...
Liddell-Hart is now rather unfashionable. He was a brilliant tactician and writer. The Rommel Papers need to be read in the context of his time...
