Certainly when U boats entered the Indian Ocean they caused losses which the hard pressed units of the Royal Navy had little chance of stopping due...
The USN had some real advantages in this battle, i.e intelligence/code breaking, but didn't they use it well? to suffer Pearl Harbor, and yet only 6...
I agree with the Pershing, but as with the Comet that I suggested as the best British tank, it entered service only at the end of the war, saw little...
Admiral Phillips should not have maintained radio silence once he had been spotted off Kuantan on 10th December. Why did he not call for fighters? as...
[ATTACH] 10th December 1941. the battleship HMS Prince of Wales & battlecruiser HMS Repulse were sunk off Malaya by Japanese land based torpedo...
No Spitfires have been found and so it seems to be a myth that will not go away. The theory is sound, brand new Spitires sent to Burma, not needed,...
For tanks in the early years of the war then the Matilda II is a real contender, superb armour, decent gun, but very slow. It was in 1939/40 a very...
[ATTACH] Looking at it from a different angle, the Panzer IV must be in with a shout! it is the only german tank to be in production throughout the...
The last tank the British put into service in the conflict. The Comet It had the reliability of the Cromwell, the firepower of the Sherman Firefly,...
http://www.veterans-uk.info/arctic_star_index.htm Great Britain has at long last agreed to honour those WW II veterans who took part in the Arctic...
I was always in a tank regiment. We simply took our turn in operating in Northern Ireland in the infantry role. We went back on tanks as soon as we...
That photo was taken on the outskirts of Londonderry, the edge of the "Shantallow" district was about 30 metres to the left. The 12 man patrols were...
Stealth technology reduces an aircraft's radar signature but does not hide it completely. As for low flying aircraft? AWAC type aircraft are in...
Below, The instructors at the Gunnery Wing, Junior Leaders Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, Bovington Camp, Dorset,England in 1986. I am the centre...
Tim Vigors was leading the flight of Buffalo fighters that was called (too late) to cover Force Z when it was attacked on 10th December 1941. HMS...
The difference now is the Mount Pleasant airbase. There is a fully functioning all weather , long runway airbase that will allow the rapid...
The Gloster Meteor entered sevice a mere 3 months after the ME262
600.000? seems a few noughts too many have been added on. I doubt that the UK had more than 6oo DU tank rounds in it's entire armoury. So assuming...
In a word yes! it was further delayed because Hitler wanted it as a fighter bomber instead of a pure fighter. There are doubts however as to...
I know the old chap who was featured in that programme. In his 90's, a veteran of El Alamein. He actually spent more time on Valentine tanks than...
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