I sat in the drivers seat of a British Scorpion tank, The drivers seat had two positions normal with head out and combat lower to shut the hatch....
Whilst the graphic novel format might not be everyones cup of tea this is an interesting project. They have interviewed a lot of the rapidly...
My Dad can remember the fields round his home being in his words filled with Horsa gliders. He lived near Brize Norton and Fairford plus many...
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Sapper, Thank you for your sacrifice and the fact that you are prepared to share with us. There are few of you left and even less on the internet...
The "Heroic Pan European Anti Bolshevik White Knight's" of the Waffen SS.
This has always been my line on all conspiracy theories, most people can't keep the fact that they know something good about the people next door...
Although he played the dumb one in Hancocks Half Hour he got some of the best lines. RIP Bill
Zetterling gives different figures for both and considerably higher on men. 9th SS started the battle with 16,800 men (excluding the replacement...
I think on any surface it would be impossible, the angle you would need to approach to get them to bounce off would mean being impossibly low and...
I have always the "bounce your 50 cal shells to hit the underneath" to be utter crap. Hitting the damn tank at 300mph from distance is hard...
Certainly for the early war the Matilda II and even her ugly sister the Matilda I. Gave Rommel and Co. a mighty scare at Arras.
The "legend" of the Asiatic horde of Siberians, in full winter kit skiing into battle behind hordes of T34's suited the German propaganda machine....
As I said depends on your definition of the Eastern Front but in Jan 44 all the ones you list are there plus LSS, DR. In Feb DR goes West but 9th...
Thankfully no, and I think I have shown many times here I certainly don't know all the details.
About the WSS : of the 150 German divisions in the East in 1941,there were some 5 WSS divisions,later,their number increased,but it was always...
Nor me yours, we're the families of the people he murdered as understanding rather than the Filipinos in general. By the 70's/80's the Government...
Excuses, he knew the war was lost when he went there and his own Officers blocked him from completeing his mission, leaflets were dropped...
To paraphrase Linda Smith "I'm not happy with him having the oxygen of oxygen"
Perhaps he meant Guardian?