Thanks fsbof, I'll check that out. :) The Japanese also used men in pits with 250 lb. aircraft bombs and rocks to blow up the Grants.
Does anyone have any information on the use of the Grant tank in the Burma campaign, 1944. I know the Grant was considered obsolete by...
Thanks Roel. :) I first heard of this on a TV documentary back in the mid 90's host by Peter Ustinov called "military blunders" or something...
Favorite ship: USS Washington, great ship + great state Afaik she saw more action than any other US battlewagon in the Pacific including a...
Rommel was also attacking into supplies as he advanced, if he could take British supply depots intact. This no longer became possible as the...
PNM1 Wrote: Tiger hunting dogs Actually happened, some Soviet general came up with the brilliant idea to train dogs to associate the undersides...
crowbar in the drive sprocket, just try not to get your arms ripped off. :grin:
You're probably right Roel, sometimes I just find it hard to believe that an armed force that was as skillful as the Germans in WW II, both in the...
By western front, I was thinking more of the threat posed by Allied airforces operating from Britain 1941 onward. These became more of a factor as...
The Mig had some important advantages over the Sabre as has been mentioned, in ceiling and rate of climb. When it came to combat the Sabre was a...
Why didn't the Germans attempt an invasion of Great Britain in 1941, instead of turning east and attacking the Soviet Union? This created the...
From what I remember the Soviet officer purge was part of a much larger program to remove ALL "politically unreliable" people from the Soviet...
Good point PMN1. Dowding also had more seniority that his superiors in the RAF and I think this caused confusion in the chain of command and...
Rommel himself had plans to send officiers of his staff accross front lines, after the death of Hitler, to negotiate a ceacefire with the Allies....
In his book Bodyguard of Lies, Anthony Cave Brown writes, " As the casualties continued to mount in Normandy and the needed replacements did not...
Grieg wrote originally that most of the soldiers of the 12th SS Panzer Div only received 10 months training before going into combat. Wouldn't it...
Thanks Roel. You're right that the 17 SS PzGr along with the 5th Para Div faced the US forces south of Carentan. I wasn't being clear....
Thanks Tony!
I recently saw a documentary on TV where they said the Germans produced higher velocity from their AT guns by tapering the bore at the muzzle. It...
canadiansuperpatriot wrote: The canadians advanced 15 mile on D-day, the farthest of any unit that landed in normandy. your saying that canada...
