Very good, ktwinny. Your post is very informative and explains a lot. When I posted this thread nine months ago, I was hoping to get a former RAF...
I agree with this. The MG-42 was a better weapon than any comparable Allied weapon, but for mechanical and production reasons as well as tactical...
Thank you, Erich, for the correction and clarification. I thought that the writer meant MG 34s were mounted on E-boats, but was not fully sure.
I remember seeing a photograph of a Norwegian sailor in the Kriegsmarine and a crewman in the Ubootwaffe. On his left sleeve he wore the shield...
An excellent book that deals with the quarrel between the Admiralty and the Air Ministry both before and during the War is Correlli Barnett's...
Interesting article. But what is an MG 38? I've heard of an MG 34 or MG 42, or an MG 08; I have even heard of an MG 37(t). But I've not heard of...
Well, good, as long as you know.
That's actually a very good question and one I've often asked myself. It seems that wartime German military intelligence consistently failed...
Very interesting thread. Anything the Soviets have to say on any aspect of German weapons, equipment, tactics, or strategy on the Eastern Front is...
It seems more than that. The RAF Regt is far more of a target for Brit soldiers and marines than the other way round. British soldiers and marines...
Scanning Youtube on a rainy lazy Sunday afternoon one day, as one does, and looking at the various videos about the various Allied Forces in Iraq...
So it was. Sorry about that. I wasn't trying to steal your thunder. I've deleted my entry on the subject.
That's interesting. So since the 1940s the Marines' roles have increased from naval or amphibious light infantry to include air-assault, which was...
I, too, don't think the Me-262 was such a great aircraft in itself, although I do think that getting it into production and flying operationally...
Rip came to me from the actor's name, Rip Torn. And -vulcan came to me from the Roman god of fire, Vulcan, which is also a trade name for heaters....
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Several northern Australian towns were bombed by the Japanese, not just Darwin. The Japanese even launced midget-submarine attacks on Sydney and...
Serious writing: John Ellis; Paul Carrell. Not-so-serious writing: Charles Whiting (always a bit of fun); many others.
There was also a detachment of US Marines in Londonderry, Northern Ireland guarding US military installations set up in conjunction with the...
In the question about the possibility of USMC deploying mechanized infantry "at any stage of their history" I meant actually after WWII, that why...
