Our Interests

And I suppose as a soccer fan, Ducetta's favourite soccer team is… let me guess… Italy?

Smell some bias here…

By the way, one of my non-WWII passions and specialities is the Roman Empire too!

 

LoL. Well of course I love Italy...but being raised in my household, if you don't like Italy you don't exist LOL.
I like Germany and Czech as well Friedrich...

DUCE

 

Love Italy too; what reminds me of a very good movie-quote:

Harry Lime (Orson Welles):

"In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michellangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock!"

"The Third Man" (1949), directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene & Alexander Korda.

 

I suppose I should love Italy as well with a name of Castelli on mum's side. Visted florence which was charming but much too rushed and got a birds eye view of Roma as we flew out and into but had to sit for over 9 hrs at the Roma air-port waiting for the Royal Jordanian airline to attach the undercarriage wheels back on their jet before we took off.........crazy things back in 1980 and things you just don't forget. Time to reminisce, my brother was ill for 1/2 of the 20 day trip and when we flew out of Roma a big burly Jordanian steward decided foolishly to raise my brothers seat as we was laying down resting. My brother unbuckled his seat and jumped the steward(my brother is no small fry), and proceeded to scare the crap out of the mid-eastern getn by closing his hands around his neck. Evryone was so still and so tired from unrest that the guys both backed off as in slow motion, the steward going back to the rear of the plane to the kitchen and my brother smiling and causally sitting back in his lowered seat.

All sur-real and very strange. There was no more to the incident.

sorry for the ramble ......

 

T.A. :

For German radar specs, etc...........

http://www.qsl.net/dl6vw

this is the front page with the web-master e-mail and name

http://www.qsl.net/dl6vw/LISTE.htm

and the listings..........

enjoy

 

Well I narrowed my interests down a bit, to be more specific that is they are:

WW2:

Development of British Armoured Doctrine

Allied Grand Strategy

British Operations in NW Europe

RAF Ops

Dieppe

Battle of France 1940

The War in Burma

WW1:

The War in Air

Development of Battle Tactics

The Western Front

Palestine

Anglo-German Naval Rivalry

19th Century:

French Army of the 2nd Empire

German Wars of Unification

Franco-Prussian War

Crimean War

And the History of the French Foreign Legion

I think that is about it.

Ross

 

Well, mine are(not in order)

Battle of Britain
Airborne Operations (Both Allied and Axis)
Western Desert
Normandy
Market-Garden

Wargamming WWII 1943-45

and...

Sailling

Best regards
Clausewitz

 

Well, I'm currently stationed in Europe so....

Collecting WWII Militaria, German Weapons, so forth

Battle of the Ardennes
Normandy
General Patton's 3rd Army
German Strategy

 

I can add another;

The work of combat cameramen and -photographers (AAF - CCU's and Army Signal Corps) in NW Europe in WW2....

that besides my on going research projects.

 

WWII
Eastern Front
Mediteranian and North Africa
NE Europe

Non WWII
Roman Empire
Dark Ages in Europe
WW1
AWI
ACW
Plains Indian History

 

I bet Cameramen of any war time have some "VERY COOL" stories to tell....to say the least!

TRB

 

Well, their films and pics certainly do!

 

Some new ones to add...

El Cid
Grossdeutchland

I have a great book on war photography from the Crimea to Vietnam...

 

Red, if you happen to sit around the house with nothing to do and wondering how you gonna get through the rest of your day.....I wouldn't mind the names of WW2 photographers who operated in NW Europe and Holland in particular.

These were literally 1000's, working for the different armed forces and magazines, etc. and I am trying to compile a list that I can work with.

 

This pertains to a different war, but it will probably be of interest to those who are interested in the work of frontline photographers: DefendAmerica.mil: Military Photographers on the Frontlines.

 

Hmmm......in no particular order:

WWII:

North African Campaign (both sides during entire war)
Italy at War
PTO
ETO

Non-WWII:

The British Empire
WWI
Medieval Europe
Military Tactics

 

As far as my WWII interests go, if it flew, I'm interested in it. If it flew in RAF markings, I'm even more interested.

 

I would have to say weapons definetly as my number one including distribution as well as manufacturing and use.

Second would probably be D-Day and all details that pertains. I love all the intricacies it has and goes throughout the day.