I doubt it is a regular platoon. I count 48 in the picture, which is a tad more than a German platoon.There are two officers in the picture and...
IMHO: Prior to Dec. 7, 1941, there were two regional conflicts going on. One centered in China and the other in Europe. After Dec. 7th, it all got...
Japanese zero?
Good acquisition! You may find that you get the best accuracy out of commercial, recently made, ammo. It's more pricy, but generally better if you...
I'm not sure that the V1 had the accuracy to hit Portsmouth. Without interference, it could hit London (then the biggest city in the world)---most...
"On War" by Carl v. Clausewitz. A slow read with much to think about.
Are you trying to excuse the Russian aggression?
The Wagner group mercenaries are a subset of Russian military power-just not an overtly official one. Thus, Botashev was flying for Putin and...
Also, Ukranian intelligence also stated that in the last several years there has been a number (5?) attempts on Putin's life. The last one only a...
If he was up in a combat jet flying combat missions, he isn't very retired!
Just read a news report that said Russia lost another general-this time an air force one. Source is Ukrainian intellegence. Confirmation comes...
For a while, in 1943, through 1944, the Allies used strategic bombing assets to blast holes in German lines that were holding up the ground forces...
Regarding Monte Cassino, shooting at varying angles is difficult and it's easy to overshoot a target. The lasered (or measured) distance of a...
I was reading some accounts of German snipers that achieved high scores. They had some interesting things to say about sniping in general. The...
Addendum to last post: The up armored/armed German fighters were dogs in fighter vs fighter combat, and often flown by very inexperienced pilots....
It was indeed daunting! Goring accused his fighterpilots of being cowards. (A factor, but also many LW pilots had never attacked a plane as big as...
Actually, from some of the German fighter-pilot accounts I have read, the defensive fire from the bombers was very daunting! So much so that the...
v. Paulus was a sniveling moral and physical coward! Just after the Soviet pinchers close around Stalingrad there was an opportunity to break out...
If you enlisted, the draft board was informed, and they took you off their list. Then you got orders to go to a processing station where you had a...
On another tack: I see that Germany is giving the Ukraine some of its new self-propelled automatic 155mm guns. These are capable of aquick...
