Recent content by Juha3

Yes and somehow the claim accuracy with Ju 87s of RAF and Commonwealth pilots got clearly better during the Tunisia Campaign

In fact Germans had bow-ramp ships, mostly improvised designs and swimming Pz IIs and underwater Pz IIIs and IVs, which could travel underwater up to a depht of 7m. Of course they needed to seize port(s) for longer term logistics but if the succeeded to form a beachhead, and this is a big if...

I agree that there were much overclaiming with Ju 87s, especially in the North Africa, sometimes more than 7 times over the real losses. So Stuka's reputation as a easy picking is at least partly misleading. And after all the first kill during the WW2 was made by a Ju 87 pilot, the victim was a...

In fact they were. During the war the British first tried to alleviate the problem by easing the railway clearance criteria, but restrictions were there. In the end it was decided to ignore the railway loading gauge restriction but due to the long development times, Centurion was the first...

Some say that the main advantage the P-40 had in the later war years was the good connections which the Curtiss Corp had with the Congress

In fact they tried to re-start oil production at Maykop, which was IIRC the most important oil field they captured but their efforts were only minimally successful. One must remember that they had only 5 months time to try before Soviets recaptured the area.

Yes, but what you meant when You wrote: "They went from losing 3,000 day fighters, (already more than in all other Theaters combined) "

I have difficulties to follow your arguments. According to Caldwell's table behind your link LW lost Sept to Dec 43 3059 day fighters, of which 445 on the Eastern Front (14.5% of the total) and 6487 Jan - May 44 of which 784 on the Eastern Front (12.1 % of the total). So even if the number of LW...

Helmut Lipfert, officially 203 kills. A modest man, also liked by his Romanian trainees, did not give any impression of an arrogant Nazi. In addition, he seems to have been exceptionally accurate in his air victory claims. And why not my distant relative Captain Olli Puhakka, also a very...

I have a bit hazy recollection reading somewhere decades ago that during the day the Beufighter would have been in trouble even against the Bf 110.

One addition, French built 60 50 tonnes ARL 44 tanks 1949-51. It looked like a cross between a Char B1 and a Tiger II, the weight was also in the middle of theirs. It was not a success, especially the Char B1 type tracks seem to be outdated products. The suspension also was borrowed from the...

It is said also in the video that French wanted also a MBT, AMX 50, but US killed it by refusing to fund its development and production. Maybe the story was a bit more complex but the fact is that the French wanted a light tank for colonies and a MBT for Europe, they definitely did not think to...

I also, I have seen only some quotes from it. But e.g. in the Lorraine in Sept 1944 Panthers did not shine against M4s and TDs. In fact from battlefield studies of the panzern wrecks it is clear that a/c did not wreck many of them, their main contribution was creating supply problems and...

A couple comments, even if 1947 was the year when the report was made, it means that the French had two years of experience on Panthers by then, same that Germans got timewise. How many Allied tanks were needed to kill a Panther? According to the US Army's Ballistic Research Lab (BRL) study in...