O'hara has a different take implying Renown was probably lucky the Twins had left. He also points out that Twins scored two main gun hits with...
The only reason Hitler and his nazi party ever got in power in the first place was the increasingly desperate situation caused by the accumulating...
With 88 gallons full tank and using standard 80% rule, then only ~70 gallons would be usable for intercept and return since the rest is reserve...
It should be remembered that Luftwaffe was the first to switch over to fixed pricing on production aircraft from 1937 on. They also were the first...
Good Chart! What the graph suggests is that LW had 5-6 month stockpile even at top fuel consumption in 1940, so they were in little danger of...
Thats right if you don't like 'What ifs", just exercise you right not to read any further....thats what most of us do.
USSBS in detail can be viewed at this site. U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey: European Theater of Operations: Table of Contents another good site...
Found this interesting 1983 study of Luftwaffe attacks in support of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of Russia on another board. The article is...
I've read that Britain required about 1 million tons of shipping arriving every week. I've also read that the UK consumed 10 million tons imported...
Given the historic resources ~ 1200 Ju-89 could be built from 1939 to 1940, but this should sustain a force of ~ 400 servicable bombers for fall...
Yeap it sounds about right. The General was Wever and he followed the directive established by Robert Knauss, the director of Lufthansa who was...
Here are some quotes from "Deutschland und der zweite Weltkrieg" vol-1 Section two "Propaganda Mobilisation for War" pp 80-81 pp 104 -105
The book gives source . "Luftwaffenfurhungestab Ic/III, 16 Nov 1940, BA-MA RL 2/671" Tile of table is "Losses of German Front Line Air units 1-31...
"Deutschland und der zweite Weltkrieg" vol-2 , pp 406 reports 7260 attacks were made during the Battle of Britain in sep 1940 dropping over 7...
Right wing parties were already coallesing in the early 1930s. The voters made it clear they didn't want communists and the Lib Dem party of the...
To understand what might have been we must trace back to the point of departure and constrast this with what historically happened so discussions...
Hitler was responsible for both the lack of motorisation of the German army and the lack of mass production in the industry. Those were both...
Had Hitler left well enough alone , by 1940 their divisions would have been much better equipped than they were but fewer. Meanwhile both their...
Problem is that due to Hitlers interferance, the Wehrmacht was not ready in 1939/40 either. They had the forces, but they were not modernized or...
