The Bomber Command Handbook by Jonathan Falconer puts the casualties suffered by Bomber Command in stark perspective: 1 in 5 aircrew would survive...
The 4 volume Strategic Air Offensive against Germany by Frankland and Webster (part I) goes into some detail about this. Basically long range...
Well Doenitz was not really fully in charge of the U-Boat arm until well into WW2. Prior to the outbreak of WW2 he was not responsible for either...
Prehaps an interesting alternative would have been for Germany to negotiate the Anglo German Naval Treaty with a clause that Germany would not...
Z Plan actually called for more than 300 subs, I'm in work so don't have the exact figures infront of me. In all honesty the Z Plan was pure...
Allready know of this site and I've made use of its resources extensively, however it does not exactly match what I'm looking for. Sbiper
Sure, I'd like to have a look at the site.
Any information you have with regards to how to jam a centimetric radar set would be appreciated i.e. is chaff useless and do you need to rely on...
Folks, Not sure if this is the right place for this but anyway..... I'm looking for any information (books, links etc.) that anyone has...
This topic has been endlessly debated in many books and still shows no sign of reaching a definative conclusion. The initial 'authorative' study...
In the novel 'The Foresight War' England does not offer a guarantee to Poland but to Norway instead, see THE FORESIGHT WAR for the 1st two...
Two good books are Submarine Design by Ulrich Gabler (he was a junior naval architect at the end of WW2 and post war he was the man prehaps most...
Based on what I've read about the subject you would need a 'sea change' (pun intended) to get the KM and the Nazi's to make the expensive and...
Rossler is pretty much the bible, though there are several other books that support/illuminate Rossler's work, I'm in work right now so I'll post...
Most of the info regarding the Walter boats is from Rossler, some from varied other works on subs in general. All the Walter boast (with the...
First off if you want information on the German U-Boat arm you cannot go much wrong than by ordering yourself a copy of Rosslers The U-Boat, its...
The two were not mutually exclusive, the KM did carry out patrols in UK coastal waters with snort VII's and a handfull of XXIII's late on in the...
Well the KM was not in the same situation as the USN with regard to submarine design, it needed various sized and ranged types to fulfill its...
Also everyone is forgetting the Anglo-German Naval Agreement of June 18th 1935. This bilateral naval treaty limited the size of the Kreigsmarine...
Thats not technically 100% true either, the OKM did not like the Type XXI, they felt it was too big and used too many resources. They designed a...
