Exaggerated? Yes. Think of it this way: In the U-boat war, the number one signals intercept device of importance was HF/DF. Radio Direction...
It simplifies the German air defense problem considerably. The Germans now only have to concentrate on nightfighting and the issues of night...
In order for the B-29 to be used in Europe, the US would have had to invest in upgrading the bomber airfields the planes would be operating from....
These are assembly ships and painted in highly visible colors and odd patterns on purpose. Their purpose was to allow the bombers in the group...
Well, for ships camouflage could be effective when done properly. Singularly, the USN put a lot of effort into devising working camouflage...
It looks like the P-63 pilot couldn't see the B-17 being rolled away and lacked the situational awareness to avoid the accident.
This is clearly untrue. Photos of vehicles and aircraft show they retained their US or British serial numbers. Where the vehicles had USA on...
I don't have any documentation for that, but as it was the only school the Army was running for that and 100% of the MOS 96.00 officers had to...
I did discover that during that missing year, he had to attend the Army Signal Corps Cryptographic school set up at Vint Hill Farms in Virginia....
I'll add this about the Foxy 29 detachment that convinces me they were there to deal with mass casualties brought onboard from the landing...
That's about the gist of it. Sorry I can't make out the some of the stuff. It is possible he got the letter at Rhode Island as that is home to...
Well, according to what I can decipher on that, he left Falmouth England and arrived at Receiving Command (RC) Boston. I can't read the next...
The compressor truck or trailer comes with a variety of pneumatic tools like jackhammers, drills, chainsaws, hammers, etc., for heavy duty...
That would be the USAF's Mace and then Matador (SM 61A)--Mostly Matador missiles. Those launches occurred from the test range at Holloman AFB...
This is the standard 105 cfm air compressor fitted to the CCKW-353 truck, usually manufactured by Le Roi corporation [IMG] The same compressor...
To the original post: That's the prototype Lippisch P 13 prototype that never proceeded beyond possibly some towed glider flights. It was a...
The Air Position Indicator and other tools described above were used for ded reckoning (no, not dead. Ded is short for Deduced). Anyway the API...
Let me start by mentioning that there are a few recurring conspiracy theory authors on what they call "Eisenhower's Holocaust" out there that...
Actually, through mid 1943 a large, but decreasing, portion of the Soviet's tanks were either older models (up through about early to mid- 42) or...
On supersonic wind tunnels: Since lately I've been doing quite a bit of research on early surface-to-air missiles and other late WW 2 advanced...
