From the information I have the April raids did target the same batteries, amongst other targets, but they were still mostly intact when...
Hmmmm, we are in the middle of an election campaign ..... while I would not put such shenanigans beyond the machinations of some 3 letter agency...
A lot depends on the actual wording they will come up with, and as I don't speak the language I am in no position to understand a draft, but laws...
The raid I was referring to was on December 1944 and had probably as target the 6" guns of Batteria Dante de Lutti at punta bianca that was firing...
Adapting the Merlin / Packard to those narrow airframes would be easier, and this was done with the P40F, but the P51 made better use of the...
Catch 22 was a great read but my choice would still be the cruel sea. Given where I live I have mostly looked at the operations of the 57th bomb...
Hitler's ambitions were probably boundless but the colonial powers overseas possessions were not high on his list, Poland was "in the way" of the...
British policy was always to prevent anyone from becoming the dominant power in Europe, it was France up to 1870, Germany after 1900 and the USSR...
You could make a much better argument that the existence or the RN was a threat to Germany. I would not call finding the source of a specific...
What are you exactly looking for?, compiling that sort of statistics looks like a multi man years work to me. Contacting the Wiesental Institute...
Stalin with a conscience ? no way. I obviously don't know what passed through his head but IMO it was to weaken Germany as much as possible....
History is never black or white, but there are darker and lighter shades in between. Soviets history called WW2 "the great patriotic war", they...
It's possible the CZ army would dissolve within a few days, when 30% of the population possibly likes your enemy more than your government a...
Czech equipment was first rate, the Lt vz 35 rank was better than anything the Germans had in 1938. The Czech cannot fight a protracted war, no...
That quote is trash, and pretty unsofisticated trash at that, there are no facts, just innuendo. Problem is that if an unwary teenager does digs...
I was not refeffing to anyone in particular, but there seems to be a sort of "cultural blindspot" in a lot of these posts to even taking into...
If "everyone and his dog is land grabbing" do we have "good" land grabbers, and "bad" land grabbers ? some people seem pretty sure we do, but the...
The Regia Marina had a preference for the Reggiane models, they also put some Re 2000 on the Littorio class battleships though I don't believe...
I fully agree with you here, given Europe's history by chosing the cut off date you can justify almost any borders you want (as a Roman Citizen I...
I was referring to the following statement by GS in post 69. "Had the Poles not extended their borders eastwards, they almost certainly would...
