Whilst I would agree that the fighting abilities of the Italians have often been unduly rubbished I would disagree with this interpretation of why...
No Germany requested an armistice because the German high command feared its army would be destroyed. The terms offered by the Allies were very...
The German high command called for an armistice to save the German army from destruction (see it's statement to the Reichstag) . Germany did not...
No I don't think so. WW1 ended with a negotiated peace, no matter how one sided, with a German government still in power. WW2 ended with total...
If you have two aircraft travelling at speeds of 400 mph plus it's difficult to achieve wing to wing contact as a cushion of compressed air...
As the tipping normally involved no physical contact between the aircraft but occurred because of the air pressure between the wings difficult to...
Not only were war trials in Germany post 1918 not pursued with any vigour but an number of those who would have appeared were allowed to escape...
It's not even internally consistent. 10 Aug 1941 - Daylight Saving Time Decreased Double DST ended – Clocks were turned back from double DST (2...
It was meant to have an industrial benefit by moving some production to when electricity for lighting would not be needed. However given that the...
Britain adopted Double Daylight Saving (DDS) in 1939 which was all year round setting the clocks two hours forward but introduced a Winter...
Britain wasn't using DST at the time but DDST which was Double Daylight Saving Time
John Ellis in 'Brute Force' describes how British artillery doctrine was built up until 1942 and how this then diverged from armoured doctrine...
As time went on more and more Swordfish operations were from escort carriers often in sub optimum weather
Britain's artillery arm underwent an incredible expansion between 1914 and 1916 but the increase in numbers left it deficient in expertise ,...
In 1915 the French began broadcasting time signals from central wireless stations. These signals acted as a means of coordinating complex...
Britain was developing HESH rounds for this purpose - it would seem logical that the US would also have been developing specialist ammunition
Read any good account of the 1917 Messines barrage in which heavy & medium artillery, mortars and machine guns were integrated to hit the same...
Used by Britain and France in WW1
Soviet merchant tonnage at the end of the war was about 1,461,000 tons - this included about 518,000 Lend Lease tonnage. Source CIA Historical...
Compared with a total of about 50,000 Shermans and variants 6,000 is paltry
