Let's face it, the sort of 21st century skinhead morons who think of themselves as neonazis would worship the empty lot after the house was pulled...
Hardly lol...except in its familiarity ;) check out a map of the North Atlantic!
For the British Army...particularly Scottish regiments - the Faroe Islands ;) The War Office sent Highland Scottish regiments there as part of...
Yes - a 1,000lb bomb could loft fragments up to 5,000 feeet...! Which we'd regard as a decent "medium" delivery altitude. Quite often in the ETO...
Funnily enough, from The Horse Back Street Choppers, March '16... [IMG] In typical Phylo fashion it's already very different since then! Lower...
The whole Panama Canal Department was indeed declared a military reserve by Executive Order on that date. IIRC from the AHF thread there was...
Carronade, all the detail you could ever want is in that AHF thread...! EDIT: water levels were always seasonal anyway...so by WWII there were...
...except the "fleet in being" idea....but in this case split up into individual fighting units able to sorties individually or in very small...
Jimbo, I might be wrong, but the first bits of planning for a European break-in were under the ROUNDUP operational name, morphing into...
The problem is...the threat of them being used as surface raiders, was the great WW2 shell game ;) You had to retain enough forces in Home Waters...
I'm not sure how Ethiopia influenced the Second World War....given that it happened four years before, and wasn't THAT large an investment in time...
One thing to remember about those high flight speeds set by prototypes is that they were often in level flight, and without awkward little things...
Bailing out throught the door trap of the Whitley was very problematic - a jumper could try to keep his chin up and back....but THEN he'd crack...
Also one of the reasons medium and heavier bombers dropped from at least medium altitudes - a 1,000lb bomb could loft shrapnel 5,000 feet into the...
The U.S. "neutrality" as of the summer of 1940 was a different animal from that of 1941. FDR faced the decision....heavily pressured by Joe...
The British didn't have the MT or armour for a wide-front sort of armoured offensive like that; that was the big advantage of the Western Desert -...
LWD....certainly Monty seems to have taken his time to build up a HUGE transport pool and a huge great pile of logistics ready for the offensive....
To go back to the original question... Right up front there's the problem of North Africa. Without TORCH would we have simply been looking and...
Of course.... Not forgetting that the Red Army used its Valentines to go Tiger hunting because they were so mechanically quiet on the battlefield...
