A good point you raised here, Ickysdad. I certainly back the idea of a memorial for the old gent and his comrades but I do understand the other...
I think it's a Sherman Firefily, a British modification of the US Sherman tank. The British replaced the the US main gun to better deal with...
Let's get the ball rolling! Season's Greetings everyone!:)
Those guys protesting against the vet's flagpole should realize that if not for this vet, they probably wouldn't be around to make any kind of...
I certainly neglected to consider the excellent point you raised. Thanks for pointing this out.
Now these are the types of informative exchanges that I enjoy reading in this forum. T.A., DA, TOS, and all that have posted here, keep up the...
My question is this: would treating the BEF prisoners as hostages to be used as bargaining chips in negotiations with UK stiffen British resolve...
I think I can post now. finally. Thanks to everybody who put their heads together to figure out a solution to the problem. Now a question: What...
Ditto. I haven't been as active here in the past few months that I feel that owe you guys more than 20 push ups for not noticing.
LOL! Thanks for posting this.
I agree. It's the "Fight or Flight Response" instinct in all of us. Oh yeah, when I asked my father what he would fear most in a battlefield,...
I read the article and I agree with you. Linking it to the Afghan war is too much of a stretch. As an aside, I am beginning to fear that some of...
Steel Panthers (yes, that old SSI game if I can figure out how to make it run on the latest version of Windows.) Allied General (An old favorite...
Just like dgmitchell, I'd be fearful of just about everything. But then, I'd be more fearful of letting down my buddies, I hope. Almost all the...
A BBC dvd documentary set called "Battlefields." Just finished watching the first two battles in the set: El Alamein and Monte Cassino. Oh yeah,...
Good point. I was also thinking along a similar line. I was thinking about two DD's in mutual support instead of your six because I preferred to...
I certainly did. This idle question made me recall that as a five-year-old kid, I would go to the town market and buy cheap plastic toy soldiers....
Some people snap for reasons that others would consider as trivial or outlandish. It's hard and I don't know how to express my revulsion to such...
I've seen the docu shown at Nat Geo channel. The one thing I can say after watching the entire series is this: it could've been better. One error...
Hmmm, here's a thread that I think would be useful to review for this what if....
