Will try to get hold of them, all I had up to now on that conflict was a French narrative of the air war that was pretty interesting.
I would agree that calling someone who left Poland in 1939 a "holocaust survivors" is borderline, that's not comparable to people who survived the...
And the Besa that was used by British tanks was also a Czech design though it retained the original 7.92 Mauser ammo. Didn't know about the...
Mass training is aimed at giving you "good enough" pilots, big navigation errors were not the prerogative of the LW, Entire US bomber formations...
How did they "spend the war in the USSR" ? The German advance went far beyond the 1939 Polish borders and the SS goons and other "special bands"...
Unfortunately the concerns are real, what is a lot more iffy is the right (including the moderates) claiming to have a solution, but faced with...
About the Carcano there must have been some reason for the Italians attempting to switch rounds to the 7.35 lust before the war, the move was...
Totally agree with that, the Middle East is very complex mess. BTW as a Roman citizen for me any laws that's not set down in stone, paper will...
A little research (even it's just a couple of Osprey books, IIRC there was a recent one by Forczyk on Caucasus operations) will go long way in...
"Human waves" were quite close to standard WW1 tactics everybody used, you cannot use very sofisticated tactics if you lack experienced junior...
The Hurricane was a very conservative design and compared badly with other planes from its generation, it was "good enough" and that's what...
IMO there is no such a thing as a "rogue state", only bad and worse ones, I might save the Swiss and some Nordic countries but even they do things...
An unescorted bomber strike is more an exception to the rule, they usually fared badly, though there were exceptions, especially against the...
Stalin considered it a sideshow, but if we include the Balcans (mostly Greece and Yougoslavia), that absorbed a lot more German forces than North...
"Carrel" is not exactly the most reliable of sources. Most attempts I made ro cross check what he writes with other sources ended in blanks,...
If Wever had not died designs between the Do 19 and He 177 will be available, and if heavy bombers design had not been interrupted they might have...
And so it ends ...
I would nor considered a "clean configuration" late war Me 109 or Fw 190 significantly inferior to a P51D given equally competent pilots, the more...
AFAIK both the P40 and P39 were not globally as good as to the contemporary axis best front line fighters (A6M and Me 109). Against bombers or...
Maintaining any sort of integrity while "in the hands of the enemy" is possibly more difficult than being under fire. But I would agree being a...
