Cheers, LR216. Those are useful comparative tables of belligerent countries' casualty statistics. And they quote from John Ellis' data book on the...
In fact the number of Japanese killed by enemy action in China is somewhat disputed. See the quote below from Wikipedia: Clearly, the Japanese...
Triple C First, some 64 years after the end of the war, your point is absolutely academic. And second, it is hardly 'sloppy thinking' but a valid...
I would not take it so personally. I am not diminishing or disparaging the Japanese soldier; I am telling any interested reader of what his...
'Superb naval gunnery' notwithstanding, Japanese soldiers were counted poor shots with small arms by many of their enemies.
Yes, it would have taken a lot more than Germany's u-boat offensive to starve Britain into submission. The US Navy's submarine offensive against...
L-Raiser, Erich, et al: Interesting array of books on the Ostfront and the German army. Excellent. Many thanks. Is it only coincidence that on...
Whyalla is an old steel town and Iron Knob with Iron Baron and Iron Monarch, among the older iron-ore mines in the country. BHP was active in...
This poses the question of why a commissioned and a noncommissioned military officer of a democratic Central European state, which before and...
Yes, the MG 15 would have been made obsolescent, if not obsolete, as many aircraft-mounted rifle-calibre machine guns were after the very earliest...
The Pacific War, and certain lesser-known aspects of it such as the CBI Theater, possibly seemed very distant to many British and Americans, and...
Yes, it was generally held in all the major belligerents' air forces or air arms that the fuselage was a stabler, stronger, and better place to...
What stage of the war were these photographs taken? I wonder. That the 7.92mm MG 15s shown in the photographs are dismounted guns from flexible...
Yes, it is hard to believe that it is now 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall; and without the Wall the good old DDR was on its last legs...
Can anyone recommend a single-volume history of the Korean War 1950-53? I read The Forgotten War: America in Korea 1950-53 by Clay Blair some...
If the British Prime Minister's office is the department or section of the British government being petitioned, then what is the legal...
Yes, I find Model a very interesting, indeed, fascinating, and intriguing subject, too. I shall follow this thread to see if any more literature...
How this for an overgeneralisation of a blanket statement? The Western Allies produced the best warplanes of the War; with few exceptions, the US...
Because they were such lousy shots with all types of firearms.
Which submachine-gun or machine carbine (in war-time British parlance) would I choose from the American Thompson M1A1, the German MP-40, or the...
