Which does show that even a relatively inferior aircraft such as the Kittyhawk could be effective in the right hands. And the top aces such as...
War Correspondent Edmund Townshend had a particularly exciting time armed only with a pencil and notebook Edmund Townshend - Telegraph Edmund...
Annie I made a bit of a study of this earlier in the year, after reading the biograpy of Erich Hartman "The Blond Knight of Germany". The thread...
Geoff I have a copy of the AFC Roll of Honour that "Dolphin"/ Gareth Morgan of the Great War Forum has compiled, but there is no Duckworth in there....
What a landing! He only had one chance to get that right - with only one engine, going round again was not an option! He could have ordered a...
It seems that he had a breakdown during the war from which he recovered. Possibly he had a tendency to fragile mental health; after all the other...
Only if you were an Aryan type - blond and exceptionally good looking! But on those counts I am sure you would qualify easily!
Geoff You don't say his name - unless I missed it. I may have one or two cross-references. Adrian
Annie I posted a thread on Kozhedub and Pokryshkin a few months ago. They were of course the two highest-scoring aces of any Allied nation....
Oops - yes, a cheap car!
Annie I had heard this story, but thought it was Goddard who actually tapped the airship and said "blimp!" But if he is quoted as giving the credit...
Andy Actually I was getting confused here - the Mackensen class were a projected WW1 class that were not built; a development of the Derfflinger...
Apart from anything else, I wonder how teenagers can afford Subarus, BMWs etc, but a lot do. I guess they either have rich parents who give them...
Very interesting. The way in which the casualty rates varied at different times in the war (early '42 seems to have been the worst for Bomber...
Interesting, but it does not always specify the race of these men. For instance, Alexander Cunningham from Guyana was born in 1888, was an airship...
What I meant by this was that had the war not started until the forties, Britain as well as Germany would have been continuing the military...
I took this from a blog that I subscribe to. The author is talking about street warfare in the inner cities, and uses the comparison with "real"...
Easy! Answers are : No, yes, yes, and yes. Am I brilliant or am I missing something here?
Hi Foxy, welcome to the Forum! Certainly we were very lucky in many respects. I doubt that the British Empire would have held out for ever...
Surely ground can only be taken by putting troops on it. Aircraft may be able to obliterate a city, but they can't occupy the remains....
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