[ATTACH]This photo is The U S S Iowa fireing it's 16" guns during a NATO trip sometime in the mid 80's , you can see the projectiles flying past...
Twin mount anti aircraft guns I believe they are 40mm Bofors..[ATTACH]
I believe one of the great tragedies of these faulty American torpedoes would have to be at midway. When you see the courage the crews of those...
If I was an american sub skipper of this period I think a couple of these desk jockeys would be coming on my next operational cruise and see for...
There was also an incident that occured during the Bismark chase , when Swordfish torpedo planes launched an attack fron H M S Ark Royal they...
It must have been infuriaitng to a submarine skipper who after risking his boat and the lives of the crew to penetrate a defensive screen set up a...
Recently I was reading a bit about the German invasion of Norway and I was surprised at the failure rate of German torpedoes.The Royal Navy would...
I am sure Hitler and his staff had accurate maps and they were familiar with the distance between two points on that map. Do you think the initial...
Hi; I believe one of the mistakes the German high command made was was to underestimate just how vast European Russia was. France 212,935 sq mi...
[ATTACH] Here is a picture of H M N Z S Achilles one of three cruisers that fought the Battle of the River Plate against the Graf Spee.
So it's not a sort of tow truck but howitzer mounted to a tank chassis, I heard that they would take obsolete tank chassis like the Panzer III 's...
Thanks; yes it has some kind of boom on it , no doubt they adapted some kind of tank chassis to use as a tank tow truck .
[ATTACH] I found these pictures in one of dad's old albums considering he was in the Canadian Navy I don't know where these photos come from....
[ATTACH]This photo was taken from H M C S Uganda refueling from a tanker and astern is a British ship I believe it is H M S Howe , a King George...
I can only imagine what it must be like to go to work every day and night where someone is trying to kill you, and your duty is to do your bit to...
I like the Battlefield documentary series , a British series made I think in the 1990's ...
Considering there's more to mounting a large scale offensive than taking a pocket full of bullets and grabbing a rifle and heading for the German...
Hi; I was trying to remember the name of an old movie starring Robert Mitchum ( one of my favorite actors ) as an American destroyer Captain and...
I don't know if someone has already mentioned this one or not but one of the best world war II films in my opinion is Das Boot , an excellent...
Photo from my father's old albums, the crew of the Canadian Corvette H M C S Summerside, in 1941 or 1942 (I think) dad is in the front row left...
