Recent content by bluezanzibar

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If we're discussing medium range tactical bombers, I see your A6 and Bucc and raise you an F-111. No other medium range bomber could match it's combination of payload/range and speed, plus low level all weather, all terrain, day/night precision bombing capabilities. Having made such a bold...

There were plans to prototype the Griffon in the Tempest but the prototypes were never built. From "British Secret Projects: Fighters Bombers 1935 to 1950 by Tony Buttler" A formal contract was placed on June 17 (1942) for two prototypes fitted with Sabres, two with the Bristol Centaurus...

From HyperWar: Moscow To Stalingrad: Decision In The East "In mid-December, across the front on the German side, new Soviet units were still being identified in such numbers that the OKH almost did not want to hear the reports. General Halder sent an advisory letter through General Staff...

Just for the record "German casualties stood, as of 1 November 1941, at 686,000 men--20 percent of the 3.4 million, including replacements, committed since June, the equivalent of one regiment in every division. Of half-a-million motor vehicles on the Eastern Front, a third were worn out or...

Nikolay Gerasimovitch Golodnikov is an Ace with seven victories over German aircraft and flew the Hurricane and P40 in battle as well as the I-16 and Aircobra. Briefly, his opinions on the Hurricane and P40 were; Hurricane ".....It had a very thick profile and poor acceleration...

My apologies for missing your post. It's a great book and many thanks to DARPA and Mr Berners-Lee or I would almost certainly never have read it. I was astonished to see in the graphs of (average monthly by) half year aircraft production that it wasn't until approximately the start of 1943...

This topic is well covered by a new addition to the excellent HyperWar site HyperWar: World War II on the World Wide Web. The article is "Strategy for Defeat The Luftwaffe 1933-1945" Strategy for Defeat: The Luftwaffe 1933-1945