The outer tracks could be detached and joined together to form a trailer to carry various items. This made it narrow and light enough for major...
A squadron of Firebrands original model was in service in 1942 but never used in action
The Blackburn Firebrand could
The Navy used red and green to distinguish between port and starboard
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French, Spanish and American navies tended to fire on the uproll whilst RN fired on the down roll. British ships had a heavier broadside and so...
Fothering was much more likely to be used to repair structural failures due to issues of materials eg hoggage, leakage due to rotting timbers,...
AKA Lyse, Men of the British 55th Div near Bethune although one does appear to be Portuguese. The last turn of the tide and the last gasp of the...
There are some international legal consequences to the difference between suing for peace, surrendering and negotiating an armistice. France...
Fothering used a form of mat like sheet rather than simply a plain canvas sail and fothering mats were still part of ships stores in WW2. In...
The 11/11/1918 Armistice was only one of a number of armistices. It saw a temporary cessation of fighting on the Western Front and had to be...
I can remember back in the day being told about an enterprising RAF mechanic who converted a 90 gallon drop tank into a 3 wheel run about...
The first drop tanks, as opposed to slipper tanks, fitted to Spitfires appear to have been metal ones developed for the Mustang and trialed at...
Not even that - his cover was always being blown
Bond was not a spy master - he was an intelligence officer and in his filmic incarnation he did not recruit or control networks of agents. Indeed...
If it is indeed a supplementary fuel tank for a Spit then it isn't a BoB one. Although the 30 gal slipper tank was developed and fitted for some...
Marshal Pilsudski, in his time as the de facto head of the pre-war Polish state, had been a firm proponent of a Poland with borders equating to...
Well some of the Bronze age Indian armies are reckoned to have a fighting head to tail ratio of 1:8 so on that basis - assuming two armies perhaps...
I think that is a post war interpretation of a different project - There was also a grandiose plan to build a two stage rocket to hit the US...
Of course from time immemorial armies have had the equivalent of baggage trains and camp followers which would also explain it
