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    German Manuals

    Ah, you found my scribd account :-)
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    JU-88 G-6

    Erich is right. Every fixed installed gun is fired by using the afore mentioned button on the "Hörnerschwenkgriff". See p.15, L.Dv.T. 2088 G1/Wa: Ju 88 G-1, Schußwaffenanlage
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    Collection of 8th Airforce documents

    Thanks Micdrow!
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    Navy Aircraft Armament Manuals

    Thanks superkeith1872!
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    was the tiger really all that good

    Tiger 88 mm KwK 36 L/56 500m, 30°, 110mm penetration; 1.000m, 30°, 100mm penetration Panther 75-mm-KwK 42 L/70 500m, 30°, 124mm penetration; 1.000m, 30°, 111mm penetration Sources Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger Ausf. E Sd. Kfz. 181 Panzerkampfwagen V Panther Sd. Kfz. 171
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    was the tiger really all that good

    Just my opinion: The Sherman was designed as an infantry support tank not as a tank killer. The Tiger was designed as an answer to the far superior russian KV-1 tank in 1941. Overall i would choose the Panther as the best tank of WWII, with it´s sloped armour and an even more powerful gun...
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    Fw-190 Manual's

    Great stuff. Thank you very much!
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    My cure for a "case of the mondays"

    Great photos. Thank you Eric.
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    Zeppelin Trap

    The smallest flight deck an airplane got airborne from? 30 ft. Unbelievable. "The man who swung the Camel’s prop on the precarious lighter was awarded the Air Force Medal for his bravery." He earned that!
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    P-47 Thunderbolt Manual's

    Thanks again!
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    P-47 Thunderbolt Manual's

    Thank to all for some really fascinating reads!
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    Could the British have held America ?

    @drgondog Thank you. First general using guerrilla tactics... Could be Quintus Fabius Maximus, Second Punic War (218-202 BC) See an exellent article on guerrilla warfare at wikipedia: Guerrilla warfare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edit: Beeing the rebell is not always fun. You are on...
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    Could the British have held America ?

    Let´s take a look at the world at the end of the 18th century. Since 1718, transportation to the American colonies had been a penalty for various criminal offences in Britain, with approximately one thousand convicts transported per year across the Atlantic... 1774 Goethe's Sorrows of Young...
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    Could the British have held America ?

    Until february 1778 the colonists were loosing the war. Then the french provided money, troops and transport. The prussian Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben came 1777 after meeting the ambasador Benjamin Franklin in Paris. He started to form an army out of that desolate mob the rebels called...
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    Junkers Ju-211 manual

    At my job i have to deal and work with different manuals for machines and parts of them. It is astounding. "Nothing" has changed for more than 60 years...:shock:
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