Smashing through the Gothic Line was no guarantee of quick success. The Allies would have to cross the Po Valley and hit the Alps, which could not...
Here's an another one- The Japanese drive into Burma is stopped before Rangoon. This happens because the 17th Indian Division manages to get all...
Harris might have been a zealot and convinced he could win the war by bombing alone and maybe the Dresden raid was unnecessary but a "war...
The problem with Operation Market Garden is that so many things had to go right for it to work. If one of many aspects of the ground or airborne...
I was watching a National Geographic program last night (Aussie-time)on the Horten 229 and how craftsmen at Northrop-Grumman had built a replica...
Singapore/ Malaya - Two scenarios 1/ Percival is replaced a few months before hostilities by a fighting general, someone in the mould of Bill...
Beyond stupid - But how did the photographs get taken? Cant imagine the memorial authorities giving permission. Which means the photographer is a...
To see how good Woo can be, check out his earlier pre-Hollywood Honk Kong stuff, esp Hard Boiled. It has some of the best shoot-em-up sequences...
Darwin would become another Rabul, the garrison would be stuck in the Top End and cut off. Aircraft from the rest of Australia could bomb at...
I was going to do this as a new tred but I'll just piggyback here. Assuming the Panama canal remains US how about a French Hawaii. France still...
I must admit I'm a bit wary of blanket pardons, like the campaigns to have all the Shot-at-Dawn British soldiers of WWI pardoned. While many, if...
I was just wondering was there ever a plan to take the Carpiquet airfield by air assault or was it just assumed the Canadians would seize it on...
Dogstar - the victors write the rules (and the history). As for the expulsion of the ethnic Germans from the East, its not much known in the...
I've go no problem with women boxers, prefer them wrestling in mud but thats never going to be an Olympic sport. The Olympic sports that really...
This interesting tread raises some points. The exclusion of western Jewish PoWs from the Final Solution has been questioned recently. Survivors...
You raise the point of the western Allies being in the driving seat to take Berlin but the question is did they really want to fight for the city....
How about Operation U-Go, which resulted in Japanese defeat in the battles of Imphal and Kohima and a huge loss men and material. There was no...
Guys - its not worth getting worked up about as you will only annoy yourself. MJ was know to millions (maybe even billions) of people the world...
If they did not make him a hero they would have had to court martial him for gross incompetence.
If you're going to watch Black Book I hope your girl is broad-minded. Being a Dutch movie there are a few "nudey-rudey" bits. In particular the...
