And speaking of best-looking falling blocks... Here is the Sharps "Big Fifty," the non plus ultra of black powder single shot breechloaders....
I think our sister forum, ww2talk.com, has a thread devoted to found and/or unidentified ordnance.
I am not certain if this is the right subforum for this post, but here she goes. The mods are welcome to move it if they want to. I am doing some...
"Nazi Sentry Syndrome. Nazi soldiers on sentry duty invariably suffer from acute drowsiness. Their peripheral vision shrinks to the area directly...
Walter Lord is of the same generation and general style as Ryan, a popular historian who excelled at weaving personal accounts into a dramatic...
This has taken an interesting turn. I spend time designing a notional WWII army with a mix of British and US equipment and organization, and in...
OK, I'll play. I will restrict myself to what might have been possible in the real world. So, no mixing of MG34 with Soviet 100mm guns with Meteor...
Von P is on target. Here are some generals who I happen to think were pretty good but whom you seldom or never hear about: Walter Krueger (US...
What they found, I imagine, was mostly the after part of the ship, the rest having been blown to fragments. Witnesses said the loss of the Juneau...
Black powder breechloaders can be beautiful. My own favorites are the Martini and the Remington, which served side by side in the Sudan in the 1880s.
I have always liked the M1917A1, and the Vickers as well. Here is a link to the first of an excellent series of three videos which give a...
Though this was never official, the British Army moved in the same direction during WWII. By 44-45 it was common for rifle sections to add a...
I don't know how deeply I dare venture into this, but I too have read more than once that many BAR men preferred to use the weapon without the...
Oldman got the Oscar and for once the award went to the right actor. I've seen several men play Churchill and Oldman absolutely nailed him. It was...
Don't forget the Lepage Glue Gun, the finest AA weapon of the entire war.
No need, the old film is fine as it is. It's not perfect, of course, but it's still one of the better war movies of the time and certainly the...
Great news. Some reports, however, referred to aircraft having "the five-pointed star of the US Army Air Corps." I think I saw that in the...
Just thought I would throw in my two cents here. When seriously bored I like to design notional WWII armies with TOEs, etc. I have a design for a...
1. For communications failures in naval warfare, take a look at Jutland. There it was a matter not only of communications which failed (though...
Probably the American Civil War--the first one, not the one we're going to have pretty soon.
