I like the second photograph: aside from being a good shot that is an early Grant which means it would have been built in the US, shiiped to the...
Adam, I just read Buckley's account of the debate over whether to scrap medium/cruiser & Infantry tank building completely and it IS a very...
How about the Italians?
LOL That's true he didn't sleep a lot, Snored heavily in a state of drunken unconsciousness, but slept very rarely. Nice T34 picture
Well they would have had to build the Cromwell to build the Centurion since it was the same automotive system so I can see why that didn't happen....
Sounds like it could be. In preference the British prefered not to have a radio operator and for the commander to do this job so the original...
I bow to your greater knowledge in this matter :eek: Yea that is odd as the Grizzly really WAS virtually an M4A1. I suppose If you are Canadian...
Joe, Sorry to sound daft but what does 'rep given' mean?
No worries; I think The magnificent 4 above demonstrate the relationship between Tactical considerations and Strategic one's. First of all In...
65 actually...... Good point about the gun although a 6pdr model was planned was it not? And it looks M4ish, similar performance and...
No I think I can post it; will dig it out when I can get to my home PC.
I have a set of statisitics listing the proportion of M4(76) tanks in US armored divisions from August 1944 and it would appear when I sdd them...
I suspect this one comes up very regulalry but I only found this forum last week I am not bored of it yet so here is my ten cents. I assume we are...
You need to read something like the Great Bruce Quarrie's books on the SS which have chapters on the sort of folk who joined. It is a bit of an...
Even if the RAF had been badly mauled it is debatable whether an invasion would be succesful. You only have to look at 'D' day. This was...
When did this great German defensive training programme start then? because to my knowledge the momment the Heer needed to defend they did it...
That IS grim. The BOTTOM 10% of employed males in the UK earn £250/ PER WEEK (pre-tax) or about 1185 Zloty so about 4 times as much in a month. A...
You may as well pick a number at random; nobody knows how many people of any nationality are actually in the UK
I suspect that the newer concept of the dive bomber was more effective in the pacific than elsewhere because the Pacific was primarily a carrier...
Lovely photographs; I bet there is a good story behind that Tiger and I bet the crew had a bad week! I have some shots of the Tiger at Bovington...
