They eventually needed longer, firmer runways...especially when flying off with drop tanks etc. became common...but for the first years of the war...
Hi Smiley - these are very much the stock "textbook" answers on the 262... In reality - the Germans were sitting on large amounts of their...
...with the Bf110 as a serious contender as the best fighter right then. Used in all theatres up to then, successful in all....only then was its...
Where do you think coffee as a drink was invented? ;)
Beer in your hair.....malt ;) Great for body and preventing split ends...so I'm told!
I could never get turned on to tea drinking, even coming from a nation of tea drinkers. To me, tea was something a little old lady suddenly thrust...
Well, distance DID mean the various Central and South American Neutrals were never going to be at any real threat. They only became of any...
Problem is....those same floods, particularly this year's atrocious ones, are rapidly destroying some of the last surviving stretches of paved...
Personally speaking....there were TWO main ways of "doing" Neutrality at the start of and during WWII. There was the "weak" Neutral - Norway,...
Talking of which...one of the major resources the Germans/italians wanted and got free use of was the three main rail tunnels through Switzerland...
Guisan had a very difficult time of it. He came from a French-speaking part of Switzerland....and thad to deal with rivalries inside the Army for...
Monaco was invaded by the italians...IIRC there was a single firefight with the Italians during which the then-Prince's palace guards were killed....
There's suprisingly little available in English about Swiss military affairs during WWII, except a few encyclopedia entries and one website that's...
Mac-Bolan....don't forget that your tables don't have the He111 losses for comparison ;) Those figures don't have much to do with...
OP, I'd have to go with KJ's comments ;) It's still ANYTHING but clear what Heisenberg did during the war. After the war he claimed he slowed down...
Apologies for not picking this up earlier and answering it :( No, the KM-converted barges would have been far LESS vulnerable; not only were they...
LWD, at least three waves IIRC.
It was all about how other nations viewed your political stance; a nation with a numerically large army, and VERY recently declaring itself...
One minor point, really...the Allies, Western and eastern, won in Europe despite the fact that the Atom Bomb was intentionally designed with...
...which is widening the goalposts unnecessarily; the point of the Norway reference is that in an operation FAR more improvised and worse...
