I have no belief in heaven or hell. Therefore, I cannot wish him there. However, I hope whoever did this dies a horrible, excruciating death if...
"They must have also sealed the Brit fate, after all they too were defeated in France. Besides this the French army was roughly the equal to the...
No seriously; the Brits didn't have Petain. Instead, they had Churchill, and kicked out Chamberlain. The Brit will to fight was significantly...
Paladins...in the German Army? What? One fact that you fail to mention was that the Germans deliberately set themselves up on a logistics...
Considering my non-white, non-Japanese ethnicity, I'd run as far away from the recruitment centers as possible. Germans kill me if I surrender,...
What do you mean by "soldier"? Physical make-up? Equipment? Morale? It's a given that you are talking about "in general", but other factors come...
I see. So it's an arbitrary, unproven number... Thank you for all concerned. You see, I've seen this ratio everywhere (or the 4:1 ratio), and...
How exactly did the 5:1 (Sherman:Panther) ratio come into being? How was it calculated, and how accurate is it?
The Germans did manage to make a successful series of attacks well beyond Soviet projections right after the Soviet counteroffensive (after...
Actually, the Germans might hold a lead when it comes to machine-guns. But that's about the only category where they have an advantage in.
Newsflash: Stupid People Exist!
I heard of a German account where, after his commanding officer's tank broke down, he used bombs to disable a couple Soviet T-34s. I suppose...
The MP40 had quite a few issues including a single-stack magazine with compressible lips, overheating problems, and a magazine that looked far too...
After reading Another River, Another Town, a couple interesting things came up. -Allied Shermans could and did use HE shells to destroy the drive...
"Please refill and return to the nearest Wehrmacht station near you." No, this isn't a real quote. Just thought it would be humorous.
Considering that you said that the Type 97 Chi-Ha had 8-25mm of armor, and the .50 BMG could penetrate 20-16mm of armor at a 0 degrees, 200...
The US already had a stranglehold on Japanese shipping, and could use "strategic bombing" to raze cities to the ground at a marginal cost in terms...
The result of a longer war can be put this way: The first Atomic Bombs were slated to be used against Germany, not Japan.
Closing the Ring, Winston Churchill. His series is quite interesting. I hope to read Mein Kampf later. Hitler's madness is also intriguing.
2001: A Space Odyssey. A good writer, he was.
