of course we are ! Talk about pot and kettle! The guy always was an arrogant old *bleep*, just he's got a lot worse with age! I did read though...
Latest tome from Stephan Cazenave at Maranes Editions, the Pz.Rgt 2 'Das Reich' book - 160 sumptuous pages - has arrived! The author writes on...
.. what a terrifying moment to stop and take a photograph of it...amazing!
Martin, very pleased to hear this - I've lost touch with Didier. He must have bought the 'rights' back from his first publisher Ysec, because...
this site - I can't bring myself to say Luftwaffe Lovers because it sounds so hopeless- is full of material taken from just about everywhere else...
don't have the books to hand, but AFAICR he dismisses it as the 'urban myth' the story probably is.. FWIW the 'mutiny' is discussed in some...
Hello Gaines, yes, indeed. Lead item on the local TV news channel just yesterday - an independent report has concluded that Manston has no...
..missed this one, thanks for the heads-up!
..not to mention alcohol..you're right, long-range P-51 pilots on 8-hour missions to Japan were also given Pervitin..but I don't know it is as...
according to the Guardian newspaper a new translation of German writer Norman Ohler’s "astonishing account" of methamphetamine addiction in the...
.. I live close to the Battle of Britain memorial on the cliffs at Capel-Le-Ferne between Folkestone and Dover. We've had Spitfires and other prop...
yes, we strung him along by the nose, showing a willingness to make peace, while all the while playing for time...and he didn't even want a war...
..anyone can quote wikipedia.... ".. Allied propaganda claimed it had been nicknamed the fork-tailed devil by the Luftwaffe and "two planes, one...
maybe he did....but it definitely wasn't Jagdwaffe pilots who described it thus.. the expression was most probably a fabrication dreamt up by...
..often wondered who originated that piece of hyperbole - it certainly wasn't German pilots - probably just Caidin 'exaggeration'
..no UK section on the site ?
..greetings Chris - got 'Lokomotive' on 'kindle for ipad' and look forward to reading it!
the 'myth' of the 'Few' - about 650 serviceable fighters at the start of the battle, but a vastly superior fighter control system that could put...
thanks for the commentary Skipper! here the guy on the right - who appears to be the same Gefreiter (?) as above right - is now in a Mantel...
Hi Chris, good luck with the book, I've downloaded my copy and look forward to reading it ..on the train...in the Nord Pas de Calais.. (or 'Hauts...
