Recent content by CurzonDax

I could say the same about you, quit reading exclusively German/Brit stuff about how great they were too. To me much of this stuff reads like Southerners writing about the Union after they lost the Civil War. A lot of it is great but for example Parker's book reads this way to me. Everyone...

Where did you get that from. I can list a plethora of sources from Ambrose to official US records to bios to third parties that if there was one army that could recover thier damaged vehicles, especially Shermans, and put them back into order it was the US. Read Citizen Soldiers, read Death...

DOH! My work has it blocked. It probably has the word bra or dang! in it. Still awesome story whether its fiction or not. Still I hope its true (since I can't see the site) since war is stranger than fiction. :{)

To quote that imminent poet at large (and I do mean large) Cartman, kickass! :{)

Okay time to ressurect this list: I was reading some time ago a book by Newt Gengritch called 1945, about how the Germans were trying to kill the Manhattan Project. In this book the US went to war with the Japanese not the Germans because they never declared war on the US. My question, if both...

There is also WEB Griffith's series Semper Fi. A little soapy by still highly entertaining. :{)

A rare bird indeedy! :{)

Most of the stuff I have read had been Bernard Cornwell's Sharp's series. While I have read a lot of WWII fiction, a lot of it makes cringe, ie Harry Turtledove. But believe it or not Newt Gengrich (yes the ex-polititian) wrote a exellent WWII fic book called 1945 about the Germans trying to...

...asteroid. :{)

Does anyone know how many Hurricanes are flying world wide? :{)

That was cool (haw haw). I hope since they could get the P-38 to fly after it was stuck in an iceberg, I hope they can get this one to be atleast museum quality. :{)

Geez that why I joined this list for all the explosive comentary. :{)

Yes thier props beat the air into submission, that why they fly. :{)

But when you compare it to the ability of the USA to recover thier vehicles and put these back into service, there is no comparison. :{)

But still my point is that whether you think think what ever about the aircraft the earlier variants of the "perfect" version fought well and sometimes we forget about them. :{)