We seem to be bogging down in technical discussions here about whether British equipment made a difference on the eastern front. How would a...
Don't forget the effect the purge had on the officer corps for years afterward. The officers would follow orders no matter what, for fear of...
Some interesting points: :) The Me-262 was originally designed starting in April 1939; :) Funding for the project in the first few years of...
Okay, the engine was a problem, but not so much of a problem that they couldn't keep some of the jets available at all times. This also in 1945...
Of all these possibilities, I think the only plausible one was the Me-262. It could have been ready as a fighter in mid-1943. It would have made a...
The Hermes was, if I am not mistaken, the first aircraft carrier built from the keel up. She was old and slow and had a miniscule and odd-shaped...
You mean like Ferdinand Schoerner, the man Hitler put in charge of the whole Wehrmacht in his will? Named as "Hitler's Ideal General?" Now there...
Why an ASW gunship? Why not the floating iceberg aircraft carrier that was proposed and even researched? A huge chunk of ice with a flat top and...
Perhaps you are missing another point here. Hitler and the upper German military command were quite convinced - and I am too - that if the Germans...
I have made a list of what I consider as the major turning points of WWII, concentrating on the ETO. Does anyone wish to add to these? Major...
I think there are some factors about the purge that you are totally missing: 1. The Soviet army had just started a major reorganization when the...
I have been studying military history with an emphasis on WWII for decades now. Something I just came across that I never knew: Rommel was...
Reynaud did have some backbone. He twice determined on the evacuation of the government and some of the armed forces to North Africa. The second...
Sorry, I seem to have "lucky" 13th stuck in my head. I remember reading that May 1942 was the true turning point of the naval war in the...
The statistics about the rapes were in something I just read recently. That would most likely be "Bounce the Rhine" by Charles Whiting, which...
On December 8th, 1941, Roosevelt was in a dilema. He thought it was essential for the United States to get involved in the war against Germany. To...
Having read through this thread, I think some of you are missing the essential point. On December 13th, 1941, Hitler was quite convinced that...
I know it was standard practice to dump damaged planes over the side that had just landed and might handicap the landing of other planes. This...
The French army were beaten and had given up. More importantly, the French leadership was beaten and had given up. Most of the French army units...
According to more than one source, there were just about as many German troops in France in 1943 as in 1944. The main difference is, there were...
