Recent content by carbonlifeform

What a waste. I mean with the price of gas and everything someone could have put that in their car. .

The worst way to light your farts on fire is.....wait a minute...IS there a GOOD way???

This is total bullshark. I'm never fishin' here again!!

Wiki also heads the page off with this: The T-34 was developed from the BT series of fast tanks. I can only assume they were referring only to the suspension then?

Certainly not, and I thank goodness I lived next door to the former before the 90's hit, and I'm still glad I do. But like it or not, the US practices it's own brand of imperialism. "More to the point, Carbon, you are equating the achievements of capitalism/free market democracy with...

I don't have any illogical hatred for any particular warbird. The ones I do hate, I hate for a reason lol. The Zero and the Kate but more for their symbolism than anything else. Now, I understand why some of you have an illogical "hatred" for the P-51 and the B-17 to a lesser extent. The...

At the expense of the other half of Europe. And certainly Colin 1, the technological advances that the war fostered are numerous and still benefiting us today, but I would hardly consider the cost of all those millions of lives to be a reasonable price to pay for those advances. The UN...

oops I stand corrected. Yes, the T-34 was actually developed from the BT series of light tanks. These tanks and the T-34 used the Christie suspension system. I got confused between that and another piece of "Russian" hardware. Hey it happens when you get old :oops: I still stand behind my...

Yeah, yer right about the concentrated firepower. And I do believe some units did get rid of the cannons and went with the 8 .50's although I could be wrong. If they had fitted a pair of Merlins into the P-38 and kept to the .50's without the cannons,(or at least went with cannons that worked)...

I also think the P-38 had a unique advantage for it's pilots. Unfortunately, this advantage could also be a disadvantage. It's twin tail boom made it easily identifiable to friendly pilots and more importantly, to flak happy gunners in the Pacific(no offense intended), which probably reduced the...

I'd have to pick the T-34/85 as the best open field tank of the war. It's wide tracks made it better in the mud and snow. Good all 'round armour protection and a decent gun that could take out the German heavies. It's combination of firepower, armour and manoeverability made it the best IMO If...

No I realize that the P-38 isn't a carrier based fighter. And certainly the B-25 is no carrier aircraft either. I was just pointing out that if you can launch a B-25 from a carrier, you could certainly launch a P-38 from one. Not that either is a really good idea.

That's exactly what Patton wanted to do and Churchill too for that matter. They both knew the communists were up to no good before it was even over.

Perhaps your wife's grandfather wasn't privy to communications between London and Washington since he was stationed in the Phillipines??? Look, sometimes leaders make those kind of sacrifices for the greater good. Churchill did something similar during the Blitz. British codebreakers had...

Ok this whole thing got out of hand for me right here lol. If I'm not mistaken (and correct me if I'm wrong) but the US was still selling resources to Germany during the opening phases of the war. At some point I believe these sales AND the Lend-Lease agreement with Britain overlapped briefly...