Don't think the 5th Army could get anywhere fast enough to "beat to it" anyone. It's "race record" is pretty poor. But a pull out, if it had to...
C3 would probably succeed, there was simply too much the Axis could throw at the defenders in mid 1942 if they were determined, and it could have...
For exactly the reasons you state Italy will not go on a collision course with Britain, Mussolini was and idiot but not that big an idiot. What...
Interesting find, it mostly confirms my gut feeling that there is a huge variety and focusing on "guns" as a common factor may be the wrong...
The Germans don't have a bad a track record on amphibious landings, Norway, Crete (ok the amphibious leg failed but they still kicked the allies...
Good to see you back! The units in Italy had large number of post Stalingrad or Tunisia "rebuilds" of units that had surrendered. So rather "non...
KSA has plenty of money to pay lawyers, unless the western countries clean up their act on protecting free speech, far from an easy task but...
Haven't seen it but very much doubt anything written for the US TV public will contain an accurate portrayal of "living in Germany at the time",...
I believe that was USS Long Beach but the range I found was 65 miles so something over 100Km. There two other claimed Talos kills off Vietnam one...
I'm far from an expert, you need some German member to pick this up. Having a better image of the metal breast badge would help (if you google...
A very challenging subject for a 9 years old, at that age I for sure had not yet learned to balance multiple sources that have completely...
In 1943 the Allies were overall stronger, but not strong enough to carry off high risk operations with small forces. Any small scale operations...
Very interesting interesting info in West Point there, but I was thinking more happened with soldiers than with officers, German had very high...
Stalingrad would not fall "by default" unless the German crossed the Volga to isolate it, as long as the red Army could ferry supplies across from...
There is also the fact the Germans allocated a higher percentage of the "top quality" manpower to the front line fighters, while the western...
The western allies were unwilling to take high losses, and the high firepower low risk taking tactics they used were unlikely to create a break...
The wrect of the Laura C. . sunk off the Messina strais on 3/7/1941 by HMS Upholder was "sealed" by the Italian police after it was discovered...
Shooting down a plane involved in a so called "police action" is escalation (and if outside the national borders an act of war). The words that...
Just to add some oil to the blazing confusion does anyone remember the huge pressure US state under the Bush administration put on the EEC to...
No idea but I think the Germans looted whatever they could find but did not restart tank production, the hybrids that ended up with the reformed...
