My thoughts are with Mr. Sanford. I am glad to hear that his condition is improving. Thank you for keeping us posted, Slipdigit.
With tungsten carbide ammunition. Regular AP rounds did not have encouraging performance at ranges over 500 meters. However, the Soviets were a...
I think the infantry combat load for veteran troops in Afghanistan back in the early 2000s were in the range of 90-120 lbs, according to a study...
A friend of mine, let's call him Sock Monkey, has a SVT. The first time he shot it he hated it, the weapon kicked like a mule and heat built up so...
There was an obscure (I am tempted to say proto-hippie) literature and gymnastics club simply called the Bund by its members that hid Jews in the...
German air parity would have meant loss of close air support and curtailed mobility for the allies. Omar Bradley was not impressed by the U.S....
One poster here said, and I don't remember the source cited, that one magazine in the gun, on spare and some clips in the belt was the norm for...
Squidly, Why, though, do you think this is the case? Efforts at eliminating the Luftwaffe was not having the desired effect until late 1943, and...
Sheldrake, My mistake. I did confuse the name of the op--I meant to write Avil. Russel Weigley wrote that Eisenhower contemplated launching the...
I will comment on the paper when I am done reading it and if I have the time to respond. Right now, I just want to point out the issues in the...
Good find, and interesting paper. I am finding the paper a delight in the amount of secondary research it perused and cited, though I am not...
"The allied troops were not disadvantaged by this because they could only deploy as many troops as they could ship." On the other hand, the...
I don't feel that the Italian front was a good idea in the first place. Italy is a long way off from major concentrations of German field armies...
1. Ranking of 30th ID is made by S. L. A. Marshal in his private correspondence with Leland Hobbs, CO of 30th ID in which he named [edit: 10] top...
Most western militaries train to fight at "degraded" capabilities as well as at full capability. It wasn't for nothing that NATO prepared nuclear...
The Johnson LMG does appear in the TOE of some marine raider and army special operations units. The consensus seems to be, not robust enough for...
I recall Eisenhower was asked this very same question and came up with a list of 4 decidedly unsexy items: the bulldozer, the jeep, the C47 cargo...
It didn't help with accuracy that Merrill was executing radical evasive maneuvers and popping smoke to spoil Japanese aim when his batteries were...
Supposedly, the Marines often modified the BARs so that the slow-auto selector position fired single shots, at the depot level....
Question. I take it that "Graf Schwerin has been ordered . . . in favor of General Kommando" meant that Schwerin's division (Pz.D. 116) was...
