@Riter makes a couple of good points. The German night fighter system was geared to engaging bombers at medium to high cruising altitudes en...
These boats were all commissioned in 1944 but never made operational sorties.
I just ran across this, and it reminded of something I read once, don't recall the details, but I think it was one of the old English...
I though the Tesla held up rather well under a 30+ ton tank, was expecting it to be completely flat. The muzzle brake does look rather funny.
Interesting picture, wrecked German plane, Russian helicopter - do you know any background?
I was recently looking through the May 2025 issue of Leatherneck magazine, an article about Marine aircraft, and saw this comment about the SBD:...
I think this was a critical mistake. Anyone with a map could anticipate a Soviet offensive from the Don towards Rostov; and I don't think it's...
It's largely a matter of peoples' choice. There was a time when practically everything you bought in America was made in America. Then...
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He did do a war bond tour and some other promotional events, but by mid-1943 he was back in the fleet, on the escort carrier Liscombe Bay. Sadly,...
@OpanaPointer's reference to Prohibition is very relevant. The problem isn't that foreigners are smuggling drugs, it's that Americans are buying...
I recently ran across a comment from Fritz Bayerlein, who commanded Panzer Lehr in Normandy. While he recognized the qualities of the Panther, he...
Since the other vehicles are tracked, I'm guessing the first one might be a half-track (Sd.Kfz 7?) mounting a quad 20mm. The next one looks like...
That's what many (most?) Spitfires ended up with after the first year or so of the war. Other options were two 20s and two 0.5" as the British...
Back in 1980 I thought he'd make a great ex-president ;) The night Nixon announced his resignation, I was at a performance of Godspell. At...
The V-22 is used by the Marines, primarily on amphibious assault ships. It replaced the CH-46. An LHA/LHD carries about a dozen of them, with...
I once read that you could even rent one, and return it after mowing down whomever.
Obviously that changes with time; I doubt our Founding Fathers envisioned weapons that could mow down schoolchildren or concertgoers en masse....
The original intent of the 2nd Amendment was for citizens to have military grade weapons, at that time muzzle-loading flintlocks. The Militia...
Shortly after the end of the war, Eisenhower visited Moscow, accompanied by his son John, then a lieutenant. Ike quotes John saying, after they...
