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Oh I have no doubt the Japanese were not prepared for the actual defenses at Midway. Instead of the 750 troops and 60 land-based aircraft they...
Hey John We can't be relied upon to relay the impartial truth on history that regards us, often I find British accounts on American and vs vs...
There is something we play in called Miller Systems WW2 Campaign, but it costs alot of money every month. And you have to commit for literally...
I want to respect your question as asked. I'm assuming you mean what would have happened if the Japanese plan at Pearl went exactly as planned...
That ARL 44 is quite the beasty though ain't it? Cripes I wonder what the velocity of the 90mm shells coming out that unbelievably long cannon...
I've got a ww2 video series somewhere here that has actual footage of German timing of launch and retrieval of one of those auto-gyros on a tether...
The British Collosus?(sorry, terrible with names) an early giant computer designed by a British postal employee to help with UK mail delivery...
I wonder how far a well-planned out German break-out, given that they couldn't bring artillery support along for long, could actually get? The...
"I came, I saw, I pissed my pants."
First, you claim my agreement with those ambiguous of 'unconditional surrender' must mean I'm another Nazi-apologist influenced by a David Irving....
Sorry, but yet again, you aren't answering his question as asked. He doesn't give deployments or even time-table, just the statement that the...
God if we only had them in 1941 ourselves lol!
Yeah, 'Bismark' or 'Tirpitz' was like yelling 'Tiger' on the battlefield. It rocks even the people in the rear beyond all practical proportion....
The History Channel here had a new series on Stalingrad. I know you criticised using such as a source and I am sceptical too, though I like that...
I suspect that the lessons from Wake etc were the reason why Yamamoto changed up the Midway fleet composition. Their biggest battleships and...
First, I'm glad to see that that fellow doesn't actually speak for everyone in this forum as he claims. But yes, I've always been curious when I...
I believe I've seen that recently, maybe in an Encyclopeadia of Weapons of WW2? If I recall correctly, it was on inter-war designs proposed but...
Exactly, in fact the Greeks even before the Romans were aware of the 'mathematics' of the principle. Amazing how hard 'wisdom' is to get into...
Some are attacking the question as written rather than answer it. He's not asking the feasibility of the Germans controlling the French fleet,...
