Addendum to last post: The up armored/armed German fighters were dogs in fighter vs fighter combat, and often flown by very inexperienced pilots....
It was indeed daunting! Goring accused his fighterpilots of being cowards. (A factor, but also many LW pilots had never attacked a plane as big as...
Actually, from some of the German fighter-pilot accounts I have read, the defensive fire from the bombers was very daunting! So much so that the...
v. Paulus was a sniveling moral and physical coward! Just after the Soviet pinchers close around Stalingrad there was an opportunity to break out...
If you enlisted, the draft board was informed, and they took you off their list. Then you got orders to go to a processing station where you had a...
On another tack: I see that Germany is giving the Ukraine some of its new self-propelled automatic 155mm guns. These are capable of aquick...
Besides the ongoing shooting match between Russian and the Ukraine, I watched the series "1883". It's really worth the watch-10 episodes so if you...
A little more on the 20mm FF cannons in the "Emil": As stated they were an Oerlikon design and were made for the light aircraft of the day. Thus,...
Actually, the centerline cannon was supposed to be in the E model, but they didn't have it ready until the F version. You can see the hole in the...
One thing about fighting in the vertical plane is that you don't have to take bullet trajectory so much into account. When shooting parallel to...
The only criticism I have is that he, and a couple of other pilots, getting 90+% of his unit's (JG 27) kills. This meant that he did most of the...
Marseille is probably on the short list of all-time best fighter pilots. There is some controversy re. just how many planes he did down since his...
Richthofen was also criticized for mostly shooting down 2-seater recon planes, which were easy. Those people forgot that recon planes were the...
Richthofen just did his job-shooting down enemy airplanes. He was a well-to-do aristocrat, so he did award himself a victory cup for each of his...
Just finished re-reading Tameichi Hara's book, "Japanese Destroyer Captain". (Fred Saito and Roger Pineau were also listed as co-authors.) I liked...
"1883" and "Picard"
The latest: Ukranian forces have pushed Russian forces back from Kyiv. The Russians there are digging in, forming defensive positions. The U.S....
Good luck with that! Ammo of all types has been hard to get until very recently. Supply chain issues, high demand (millions of new gun owners)...
As former general Patraeus said, the Russian incompetence is mindboggling! It ranges from top to bottom in the Russian Army. They can't do simple...
Probably. It seems to have elliptical wings.
