There are 2 caissons left in Portland Harbour near Weymouth, Dorset. They are part of thye D-Day Museum.[ATTACH][ATTACH]
Have you seen the World at War episode called "Inside the Reich" ? There's a very interesting section in it showing the Nazi Bigwigs (Goering and...
Well after a little digging on the net here's what I found. The 2 Axled model was a 1935 Mercedes Benz 770 K "Grosser" Limousine and the 3 Axled...
Bet they regretted that afterwards though :ponder:. The Mercedes normally seen arriving or departing Berchtesgaden was a 3 Axled design. But the...
There was a good documentary on History Channel not long back about this. Saved countless lives with the countermeasures developed from the first...
It's the 70th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain this year. 15th September is Battle of Britain Day as this saw the heaviest aerial fighting of...
[ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH] Heinkel He 111 Role Medium bomber Manufacturer Heinkel Flugzeugwerke Designed by Siegfried and...
Petlyakov Pe-2 [ATTACH][ATTACH] Role Bomber Manufacturer Petlyakov Designed by Vladimir Petlyakov First flight 22 December 1939...
[ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH]Arado Ar 234 Role Reconnaissance Bomber Manufacturer Arado Flugzeugwerke Designed by Walter Blume First flight 15...
Role Heavy fighter / strike aircraft Manufacturer Bristol Aeroplane Company First flight 17 July 1939 Introduction 27 July 1940 Retired...
I'm back :smirk:. Didn't realise the site was back up until I saw it on FC today. Excellent stuff. Sorry I haven't been able to do much with the...
Thankfully it would probably never have happened. The Nazi's Anti-Semitic rhetroric was well known in Germany before the seizure of power in 1933....
Hitler was the main cause of events for the War in Europe. But you also have to factor in the Japanese in the Pacific. When you look at the events...
You could put it like this - The Allies won the war but it meant different things to different nations. The US ended WW2 as the richest...
It was a certainty that it would happen. The Molotov/Ribbentrop pact was an act of convenience and both the Germans & Russians knew it. Stalin...
Anybody seen "Station X" on History Channel ? The biggest surprise for me was that Churchill ordered everything to be destroyed at Bletchley Park...
Look at the A-Bomb thread in this section. As I said it depends on your point of view. I firmly believe that Truman made the right decision...
Yes I would say that the Mount Suribachi pic is certainly iconic. And I believe is also now a statue in Washington ?
Fegelein was summarily executed after failing to report to Hitler (More or less termed as desertion) in the Fuhrerbunker during the last days...
-cb6SmK_c2g Some great footage of the "Wooden Wonder" in action and being built.