The Mk 4 Panzer was a very good tank. The Germans could produce more of them and it used less fuel. It was perfectly adequate to use at least on...
I think having a large division is a good idea, even if a brigade is kept in reserve. The reserve brigade would be the replacement pool, already...
In this scenario, i am imagining that the US Army would rechamber them in standard .30 cal ammo. I know the BREN was designed originally to fire...
As far as duds, I have heard exactly the opposite. Many German shells were made by forced labor and were of poorer quality, particularly by...
The US and UK might have not used as many artillery pieces as the Russians, but were much more sophisticated in making more out of less. The...
I was thinking that with the BREN being the main squad level automatic, it might be kind of bulky to have too many people in the "maneuver" team...
I saw that you advocated for at least two BARs. I thought only one would be necessary. And if I was doing the Army/USMC procurement, I would have...
I agree---but in hindsight, it is easy to see the utility of a heavily armored carrier that is supporting operations close in (like at Okinawa)...
Having a squad divided into two sections---the fire team (3 men) with a Bren and personal weapons and a maneuver team (8 or so men with at least...
If I was a high ranking Naval Officer in WWII, I would have opted for building models of both. Heavily armored carriers that could take more...
I would assume dropping a lot of extra lead on a large area occupied by the enemy would not provide a lot of direct hits, but it would force them...
A better idea, although the American Army would be LOATHE to do it, would have been to adopt the BREN as the squad level light machine gun and...
That is a quite formidable Fleet! I do remember reading that a lot of the newer RN carriers didn't have as many planes as their American...
I know there were British carriers at Okinawa. I would guess by 1945, there was very little for any RN carrier to do in the war against Germany...
The German Order of Battle is quite a mess by late 1944/1945, because they were forming all kinds of ad hoc units around this time. No wonder on...
At it's peak, how many carriers did the Fleet Air Arm have in service and what time period was this? I know the UK had multiple carriers, but...
That would be utterly strange if a Colonel could change an entire Regiment's TO/E because he had a fondness for a particular rifle. I suspect that...
That is wild stuff.
Here is what I would pick for infantry weapons: (assume that the standard rifle, the squad automatic and the MGs are all chambered for the same...
Firefly is such a common term used for that British upgrade for Sherman---I have a feeling that many British tank crews must have called it that...
