I think the repairing of the Yorktown for Midway ranks as one of the finiest achievements of WW2, completely threw the Japs. Once carrier parity was...
I think spying in nazi-held territory muct have been one of the most nerve-wracking jobs of WW2. The Gestapo/SS were never too hung up on the Geneva...
Losing the airfields was the problem. When you look at the initial troop dispositions and how the allies had numerical and naval superiority then you...
Americas manufacturing excellence was already geared for war to a degree as she had been supplying the Brits and the Chinese prior to Pearl Harbor....
Of all the 'what ifs' that WW2 throws up, this premise is the flimsiest being as Hitler came to power basically stating in his own convoluted way...
Just to add one thats not far from me here in the UK. http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/cosford/ A great day out for anyone interested in planes...
I think that France and Britain would have come close to defeat without contributions from Empire/colonies/commonwealth soldiers. ANZACs, Indians,...
Was it the Spad variants with their 100 mph+ engines and heaviier arnament 2 sometimes 3 machine guns.Was it the ubiquitous SE5 which had the...
I think the whole allied thinking with regard to the middle-east was pro-empire as opposed to strategic. France and Britain had large colonial...
Cracking story. :p love the General Scott quote too. Whatever the moral stance you take on the confederate position in the war, you have to admire...
The socialism aspect arose from the fact that Germany was pretty much a democracy in name only and private enterprise operated only with tacit...
None of Britains armed forces were really up to what they were facing at the start of WW2. German mobility and Japanese experience were both borne...
I think WW2 generals are often lauded for their 'dashing' and 'daring' which tends to leave Monty out in the cold, especially when it come to tank...
Some great info on this thread but I'm going to try and approach the question posing as a newly qualified USN pilot in 1941 who is asked Torpedo or...
Looking at the history of the Me262 I was shocked to see that it was under developement at the start of the war! It states that there were problems...
There was a great piece on the Matilda tank on BBC2 last night as part of a British heritage series. Told the story of how the Matilda ruled the...
"There is the fact that by attacking Greece and Yugoslavia, Germany had to delay the attack on Russia which resulted in the Germans failing to...
In practical terms, his assasination mythologised Lincoln and gave him 'sainthood' status. Speaking brutally, it also gave him a way out of dealing...
I've often wondered this myself when trying to look at ways the allies could have outflanked the German trench system. The only thing I can think of...
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