Fighting in a city building by building is difficult and different than breaking out on a German front in the open. Tanks are better in open country.
I am reading a book called Stalingrad to Berlin the German defeat in the East . It mentions that Stalin had 2 generals executed for simply not...
SHELDRAKE The long range B 24s could not reach and patrol the mid atlantic gap called the black hole. Thats were the CVEs came in with their 20...
While my uncle Jack was on CVE 100 in the Pacific they came along side CVL 28 CABOT. Another uncle Donald Cunningham was on CVL 28. The two...
I have read in different ww2 books that called the CVEs jeep carriers emphasizing how much smaller they were compared to CV 18 WASP and CVL 28...
I wonder if there is some one who has been to Russia and talked to a Red Army veteran from ww2 ? Specifically human waves sent into battle and...
Recently on the history channel they showed how the Russians used gun oil when the temperature was 40 below zero in the battle for Stalingrad....
All right I will desist from using capital letters.
I am DON from the Mississippi Gulf Coast . I worked for the NAVY as a civilian QA Specialist down here at INGALLS and retired with 43 years civil...
I have been to the Museum of Science and Industry when it was mounted in a cradle outside. Since then they made a small dry dock and put the U...
Excuse me if this topic has been covered. The area in the mid Atlantic called the black hole out of range for land based aircraft to hunt U boats....
Its a known fact that USA and BRITISH soldiers interned in prison camps in Germany were treated better than RUSSIAN soldiers which shows how the...
Stalin refused to believe a GERMAN invasion was imminent June 22,1941 and wouldnt listen to his generals. The generals wanted to withdraw some...
Yes the mens lives depended on our work. I dont remember a way to test the arresting gear except during sea trials. Usually for the catapults you...
Reguarding overhaul of the arresting gear on the LEXINGTON CVS/CVT 16 and the INTREPID CVS 11. The arresting gear compartment consists off a...
Just to add a few facts many destroyers built during ww2 and in 1946 were still around in the late 1960s. We worked on a lot of these at the...
The bottom line is that both the Germans and Admiral Lockwood who served in ww1 on subs realized that to strangle a nations life line and supplies...
The corvettes were known as the broncos of the North Atlantic. Corvette K-225 stars Randolph Scott as the commanding officer who gets revenge...
Why did the Royal Navy put so much pride in the HMS HOOD ? As it turns out the HOOD did not have enough armor plating especially near the...
I read recently about the Japanese long lance torpedoes and how deadly they were in battles off Guadalcanal, etc. The Japanese never really...
