Hmmmm
Funny how as late as July 1943 there is still some daft idea of invasion, even though Operation CARTWHEEL has isolated Rabaul by this time and...
My only question concerns reliability when it's dirty or covered in mud/dirt/sub zero temperature. Does it still operate effectively when it's...
For the Allies I would put forward two senior commanders for the British that pass the "niceness" test. The first was Brian Horrocks. The other...
This footage shows fighter gun camera footage mixed in with unrelated footage of a waist gunner and a ball turret, interposed with a little...
It wasn't the only reason, but it was the principal reason why this film failed to inspire. The whole project was so much melodrama, with the...
Well, if formation defensive fire was so effective, why on earth was the P-51 so needed and anticipated ? Formation gunnery might have been...
This is so true. 8th Air Force gunners in particular were in a class of their own when it came to overclaiming fighter kills. Look at the...
When I saw the World at War documentary series episode called "Whirlwind" about the Allied Bomber offensive, an interview with a German dayfighter...
I doubt very much whether fighter attacks on even formations of bombers were ever really seriously inconvenced by defensive fire from the bombers....
Gyrostabilisers..... As a player of Avalon Hills SQUAD LEADER series, one of the gamette expansions, GI ANVIL OF VICTORY had a rule that...
Post Stalingrad comments... A Russian soldier said... "Germans are funny fellows. Coming to conquer Stalingrad in shiny leather boots. They...
Why didn't the Japanese simply destroy the attachment for the net? What sort of idiots would allow multiple assaults up the same net every time?...
I'm going to re-ignite this thread. "Heartbreak Ridge" was recommended to me by a friend. On his say so, I sat down to watch it, hoping to be...
Indeed. A "thruster" like Rommel or Guderian would have forced marched them into the city, or scrounged fuel from other units, anything to...
Adolf Hitler speaking at the Lowenbraukeller, 8 November, 1942 " So if Mr Stalin expected that we would attack in the centre, I did not want to...
Such were my thoughts exactly. Willingness to disobey in a crisis might well have saved the Sixth Army. Also, Rommel as an infantry specialist...
Hitler and Goebbels chose exactly two generals to publicize and make into public figures for propaganda purposes. One of them was General Dietl,...
I think Rommel would have been better off posted to Russia. His from the front command style al'a Guderian and Hoth would have paid big...
