I am extremely glad he never made it to tea at Buckingham palace, but seriously you cannot invade Britain without control of the seas and...
Oh yeah......forgot about that :oops: even so though taking out two carriers and a few heavy cruisers wouldn't have stopped the navy messing up an...
I really can't see Stalin being able to launch a cross channel invasion. His supply lines would be incredibly strained and unlikely to have been...
I am inclined to agree with Roel, that the fact that millions were killed for no reason other than their religion, ancestry, sexuality etc is more...
Classic quote from Highlander if I'm not mistaken :lol: I'm 33 and bloody annoyed about it :angry:
Thats all. Am I missing something here? :-?
That about sums it up, and when your whole education teaches you something as an absolute fact it makes you curious when someone argues against it
Split from "A new look at the origins of WW2" My opinion is that the tragedy of European Jewry not neessarily happened the way we are being...
Quite so, adding Russia to our enemies in 1939 would have been foolhardy in the extreme
I agree I was simply emphasising the importance to the Western Allies of Germany turning east after France fell
I don't think a German invasion and conquest of Britain in 1940 was a realistic possibility even had they gained air superiority over southern...
A bl**dy big navy kind of helped as well :wink:
The Luftwaffe was not (certainly in 1940) trained for naval attack, indeed not one British capital ship was lost to German air attack. The RN was...
Spaceship Valiant from the Dan Dare comic strip story 'Operation Saturn'
Given the problems the German invasion barges would have had just crossing 20 miles of channel, I can't see how they could have managed the much...
Very, very few. The communists long ceased to count in Britain even as one of the minor partys
Offense - Rommel or Guderian Defense - McArthur or Chuikov All round - Montgomery or Zhukov Would like to know how O'Connor's career...
I got 10, largely thanks to semi educated guesswork :oops:
I'd definitly go for the Hurricane as the most under appreciated plane of the war. I've always had a soft spot for the Lancaster though.
We tried an Admirals brother at one point :grin:
