Excellent work! The muzzle flame is very realistic. The left gun in turret 1 appears not to have fired; if that’s accurate it would be some...
This suggests that the intent was to have something somewhat better than the P-40, but for the same basic roles. Something I've asked about...
I don't know if it was planned, but ordering the Hurricane from experienced fighter manufacturer Hawker provided insurance in case the "high-tech"...
subtitled The World War II Battle That Saved Marine Corps Aviation About the first Marine aviators who landed and fought on Guadalcanal - has...
That's a question for you to answer, or anyone else who thinks the Germans had operational atomic weapons. They were facing total defeat, by...
Indeed he was, and all he claims is that he has valuable information on atom bomb research in Germany. Did his Allied captors assess these...
Excellent book which I have recommended to others in the past. What did you think about the Final Cut? I saw a director's cut or some such a few...
He was rightly concerned about the possibility of Germany developing atomic weapons. He was discussing Allied strategy for 1944; the possibility...
Marshall was writing about policies and decisions made during the war, mainly prior to the campaigns of 1944. At that time, nobody in the entire...
Not just Montgomery. From Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe, concerning the September 10 meeting with Monty: "I instructed him that what I did want...
You all make a good point that Germany might have been better served if their talent had focused on designs and processes for production of...
More monitor trivia: The first two 15”-gun monitors were named Marshal Ney and Marshal Soult, presumably as a gesture of solidarity with their...
Some monitor background from an old post: "The WWI monitors came about more or less by accident. Around 1911 the Greeks had ordered a battleship...
Clever idea!
Whack-a-mole!
My first thought was that Coimbatore looked like something Italian, maybe combatant, but it turns out it’s a city and district in India.
Enterprise launched 33 SBDs, but one VS-6 plane aborted early into the mission and one from VB-6 ran out of fuel* just when they sighted the...
Just happened to notice this. USN carriers today have 2-3 each of NATO Seasparrow (successor to BPDMS), RAM, and CIWS. This allows multiple...
According to navweaps "The original 10.5 cm Dop. L. C/31 mounting was the 8.8 cm Dop. L. C/31 mounting reworked to take the larger gun." These...
Bismarck had two different models of 10.5 cm AA guns, but I have never seen her described as having 8.8s. Is there a source for this?
