Does anybody have any information/links/pictures of tanks or other vehicles (Universal Carriers, Tank Destroyers, aircraft/helicopters, trucks,...
Fuller said that he wanted to make it like he wrote it, but he didn't want people to leave the theater in disgust (since he assumed they wouldn't...
A Bridge Too Far is one of the most cliched "adult" war films that I've ever seen, although it strives to work within the cliches, and it does a...
They could (and often did) use a lot of gore and profanity back then (Apocalypse Now comes to mind, although that's Vietnam).
Was this the only British tank captured during the war? Also, how did they get this back under UN control?
Does anybody have any pictures/info about captured Allied vehicles (tanks, tank destroyers, aircraft, etc.) in use by Japanese forces? I know the...
I would have to say The Big Red One. Sure, there are other movies that depict events more realistically (i.e. appropriate vehicles, gory wounds,...
If I'm not mistaken, the only other planes on Wake (aside from the Clipper) were the 12 Marine Wildcats. Which poses a further question: why...
I heard that W.E.B. Du Bois traveled to Nazi Germany before the start of the war, and was treated better by German scholars than by his colleagues...
I heard once that Allied forces captured a Japanese soldier during the early stages of the Normandy campaign. Could it be that the Korean soldier...
Maybe the black soldiers were recruited from the ranks of the Vichy French? Or they were just African-German soldiers (although I thought the...
In Flags of Our Fathers, the author mentions his father was given a .45 to carry since the Japanese tended to treat medics as a priority target...
Any idea about wristwatches or razors?
Were enlisted men even allowed to have sidearms? And, soldiers weren't usually given new weapons in the field, were they?
Something about TF Smith would be cool, or a remake of The Steel Helmet (although it'd be damn hard to remake a Sam Fuller flick, unless another...
Did most or all American soldiers receive a wristwatch from the military as a general issue item? Same deal with field compasses and razors, were...
I had always thought that senior NCOs and officers got a carbine and a pistol. In Band of Brothers, I think it was stated that the NCOs and...
The program I had seen on History Channel did say that enlisted men were eventually authorized a pistol. Also, didn't BAR ammo belts include...
What I mean is, a regular rifleman in a regular unit (not like a weapons unit or anything), did he have a choice between rifle or carbine, or...
I was watching The Pacific, and I noticed that a lot of the Marines were carrying M1 carbines instead of Garands. I thought that the Garand was...
