Isn't this 'most despised after the war as history was written'? Lady Astor not a bad candidate for actually during, though there doesn't seem to...
Technical Data Sheet for L43 KwK 40. Very real. [ATTACH]
Saw one a few weeks ago. Very very rare sight in the UK. Coincidentally a tracked 'Thing' appears on Milweb: Tracked Kubel [ATTACH] Patty &...
A touch weirdly, there's a thriving reenactment scene around them in the UK. Though maybe not that weirdly as they're the only reenactors I've...
But doesn't it show what a brilliant documentary series it was, that it's still always worth watching, almost 50 years on from 1973. Lordy they...
Japan was the aggressor in every C20th conflict it was involved in. It killed millions in the cause of a militaristic expansionist death cult. Its...
As the much-missed Clint started the thread with; it's hard to overstate the contemporary Japanese devotion to the Emperor. Divine Right...
Would anyone really fancy landing in Southern France with an entire belligerent nation at your right flank either? From Sicily upwards, no...
What, half a million German troops engaged in Italy? Associated armour, aircraft, transport etc. Serious Northern European landings that would...
Kubel's came in at c.1600RM (About half the price of a K750 or R75 motorcycle combination). Ford initially contracted for about 15k for $15M &...
Unwanted 'Kubel' aside: The bucket car that wasn't a bucket car. The term comes from bucket seats, 'Kubelsitz', required when they noticed people...
Cracking 'Victorian' style composition for this shot of current Household Cavalry. [ATTACH]
Given the base tank probably dates from the 1961 moulds, that's damned fine/patient work. Their recent stuff is very good. Slide-moulded etc., but...
Kafka & Forst PoWs, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17992800/alfred-p-kafka https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17992790/georg-forst...
Fascinating website, Publius. Hadn't seen it & read most all now, so cheers for sharing. Good luck with the archive sorting. Tagging @Otto &...
Hogg: Three ammunition types: HE M48, Chemical M64 & HEAT M66 (The HEAT being the only fixed round). M66 HEAT spec: M62 base-fused, 1lb...
Yes, because I credit most people with understanding that times change, leaving artefacts behind. The 'Rhodes must fall' types came across as a...
Liberation enforcement devices ensuring Czechs feels good & liberated - 1968. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I don't hold with statue-bashing in many ways;...
They should, but the perception of Germany being at the vanguard of mechanisation persists. Signal magazine still feeds the panzer fanboys....
Another one I don't believe is still widely perceived: The mighty mechanised Wehrmacht was in fact a largely horse-drawn army. Only the UK & US...
