That's conservative indeed. An airtight naval blockade coupled with B-29 bombing was never much of a plan. It was more of a what are our options /...
Perhaps someone with materials engineering or metallurgy background could help me understand a few things about tank armor. If you look at German...
One of the first 1/48 scale models I ever built as a child (or more properly didn't mess up in the building) was the Revell Dambuster Lanc. It was...
Here's one that changed. [IMG]
To my knowledge there are three films that cover the same ground, Hitler and entourage in the bunker (I'm excluding the Richard Basehart 1962...
Throwing in my 2 cents worth... I protest the No. 4 ranking of Battle of the Bulge in the hall of shame... there are plenty of WWII-themed movies...
Why call it blasphemous? The whole Death Star trench sequence was an homage to "The Dam Busters" and to "The Bridges at Toko-Ri." Also there's...
Please explain how, given that the whole point of this, the biggest deployment of the Combined Fleet since Midway, it made sense to withdraw? His...
Tactics must have been the factor. By the time of the Guadalcanal campaign Navy and Marine Wildcats had tangled with Zekes many times in large and...
[/INDENT] Good question. The carburetor problem was solved by a woman working as a draftsman...
Spitfire Mk.V and Zero A6M2/21 (the PH Zero) are close contemporaries. Top speed goes to the Spit, but the advantage is minimal because the...
Doesn't sound like Model wanted to give the Allies much credit for winning. "You didn't lick us! We f*cked up!" Jodel and the other staff...
I don't think that feature was available until the M9A1 model, which wasn't deployed until spring, 1945. Could be wrong about the dates though....
I did not know that! Interesting. Another thing most people don't know is that the Enigma was originally developed for civilian use to ensure...
Such as Cherbourg, for example? I don't think that siege paid much of a dividend.
The first work against the Enigma encryption system was done by the Poles, who graciously turned it all over to the British.
Poppy's initial post implies interest in AA artillery specifically. On that point I wish to point out that before the advent of the VT fuse, the...
All this talk of Gavin concentrating his efforts on defending his drop zones at the expense of what? Attacking 10th SS-Panzer without XXX Corps...
True as history illustrates, but only if one assumes Yamamoto's meaning to have been these ships will be so mishandled as to be as useful in...
As for increased HP, I'm not sure. The specs say that the change from RR to Continental actually netted a slightly lower output, although the net...
