One of the little understood defects of the smaller German ships is they were not designed for the Atlantic. Most were top heavy and when at less...
Even at this time in 1942 the Germans were being led by the nose with Allied deception operations. I'd recomend 'The Deceivers' by Holt for a...
It might be considered better. Ring had rotated out of a non combat assignment not long before, and had not yet caught up in flying hours in his...
From memory Even with Antwerp recieving at full capacity there is not enough incoming supply to support 21st & 12th Army Groups at full offensive...
There were German representatives of the Armistice Commission present in Morroco. I am unsure if there was a ordinary diplomatic mission with a...
I wonder if the gunnery logs and evaluation documents from the USN gunnery training are still around. A study of those from 1940-41, and the...
Pan Am flew its China route up thru 1940. The flights were still run as far as the Phillipines to late 1941. Most of the seats on those were...
Prewar,. in 1940 approx 40% of the cargo entering and leaving Japans harbors was carried in forigen flagged ships. The embargo the US & Britian...
See the last paragraph of Redcoats post 9 Nov
I feel you pain brother :(
As a tank commander with 18 years experince put it to us: "It does not matter how fast you are; you cant outrun a sabot round. (LtCol 'Buster'...
Amen. The two atomic bomb attacks were sent unescourted against Hiroshima & Nagasaki, despite the presence of several hundred enemy fighters...
A lot of the Germans in South America were like my ancestors, they left Germany to get away from a..oles like Hitler. Some German immigrants...
I'm unsure the railroads running north from Italy & the Adriatic would have supported supply to a Allied army group advancing into Austria. At...
I want one:)
Usually a mistake. I'll put a storage shed on the lawn before I park my books at some distant location again. I'm still moving my reseach...
The career of the British super battleship Vanguard might illustrate the fate of the Montanna class. "There were already eight battleships at...
Do you mean in 1938-1940?. Nothing was sent to the USSR or Britian in those years. The US had next to nothing to give of any value and in fact...
What that text suggests to me is Montgomery either lacked critical information for, or was ignoring that information, of the Allied supply...
Other than a few hints the only description of the German sucess at counter intelligence in the Netherlands I've seen is in Marks 'Between Silk...
