Thing is, CAC, that's not actually anything to do directly with WW2. They're ripping off the "Grave Diggers" colours from the bike club in "Stone"...
The problem is you'll encounter a lot of the tinfoil hat brigade in those long debates...and some that are just plain crooked in how they deal...
More than you might think, after all it still counts charter members like Sonny Barger among its ranks.
Weeeeell... Given that the M3 was an anti-tank weapon - and certainly was in this particular episode - they'd have been equipped instead with a...
As far as modern island cultures go, Crete is the biggie. it was the home and birthplace after all of Eleftherios Venizelos...and thus the...
Hi Michael - well, for one thing, the island was supposedly "disarmed" by the pro-Athens gendarermie on the island in 1938 at the end of another...
Okay... Who's ultimately responsible for the debacle at Balkalva...? Freyberg's force disposition on Crete - DID London tell him the...
Personally I would have been more surprised if Himmler HADN'T kept a diary, it seems to have been surprisingly common within the Nazi hierarchy -...
IIRC there's some issues with the "table talks", there's supposed to be a questionmark over the the veracity of about 30% of the content. While...
Does it make them any less "believers"...?
Need to be careful of that particular statement, I've seen those sentiments used too many times in an attempt to excuse the excesses of the Nazis...
yes we do ;) When the 1935-6 Air Estimates were passed by Cabinet and parliament in the UK, the layered Air Plan was for the RAF to be ready to...
Quite right, my bad - but the example applies...sic!...applied science rather than the science itself.
I've commented on this before - the Allies' use of applied science, vs. the Nazis channelling the cutting edge of science to create "wonder...
When it comes to the fast disembarking of large stores, vehicles etc...a large flying boat is NOT what you want because the aforementioned...
A hit on armoured, high lead content glass won't craze it IIRC. Chip it, but not craze it. There was a study done early in the war on the rear...
In respect of the Gigant....I wonder how many of the gliders were rebuilt as the motored version??? ;)
I've just noticed that I forgot to comment on this way back when. It was surprisingly difficult to actually HIT ships...especially when a bomber...
The uncontaminated steels and alloys brought up from Scapa were in quite small quantities IIRC, they weren't salving whole ships like this. It's...
Michael, the newspapers' court notices pages for the area will list any breaches of the defence regulations for which people were brought before...