We have a lock-down quiz with our neighbours. One of our neighbours did a picture round of album covers. They aren't a bad play list. [MEDIA]...
Sorry but war is not commerce and these are misleading comparisons. War is destructive and destroys wealth. War is the pursuit of politics by...
The F86 Sabre and Mi15 (First flights 1947) were as superior to the Me262 and Meteor (first flights 1942-43) as they were in turn to to piston...
Also potentially fatal in the event of a belly landing.
Between November 1942 and May 1943 the Axis power lost 2,400 aircraft supporting operations in Tunisia. The two campaigns were linked - at least...
The sessions are available on their youtube channel. There was an excellent session on the turning points Midway and El Alamein. I also enjoyed...
German artillery in Normandy operated under several disadvantages. 1. Seventh Army had a hodgepodge of artillery equipment. Seventh army had...
I will be there this evening UK time
Gurdwaras are Sikhs, and the Sikh community has erected quite a few memorials to the contribution made by Sikhs to Britain (and Belgium) in WW1....
Winning Wars: the enduring nature and changing character of victory from antiquity to the C21st edited by Matthais Strohn....
Agreed. Though I would reserve the designation of good idea that did not work out in practice for aircraft like the Bolton and Paul Defiant which...
Exactly. The proper comparison is not with the Bf109 but the Fw190 which was also built after its contender had lost to the Bf109. The Fw190 wins...
The OP asked a question about the time to plan and execute a major manouvre, but then quoted an example about the length of time it took to make a...
James is a leading British popular military historian. He is very prolific and many of his, consistent, ideas are prominent in each work. He does...
One of Napoleon's maximsd was A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, 'What if the enemy were to appear now in my front,...
FMS B832 Debriefing with Staudinger I SS Artillery in Normandy
The British preference for artillery to be observed by relatively high ranking officers may go back to WW1. Here is an extract from Field Guns in...
The Germans had real problems in Normandy. Sure they picked potential targets which were often well chosen based on likely enemy (allied)...
You don't need to be an officer to adjust fire onto a target. Indeed when we were fire-planning my Ack (assistant) a Bombardier (corporal) would...
I suspect both were the result of intra service politics and a bit of serendipity. You are right. Like the US Field artillery in WW2, the Royal...
