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Thanks, the last date I saw was in December. I enjoy your work.

Mr. Williams, I have Rapid Fire and your two books on aircraft guns in WW1 and WW2. I have a order placed for your new book. Do you have a publication date?

I wanted to mention this book. I am afraid I may have misplaced my copy. It has a chapter on the Davis wing which is very interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Engineers_Know_and_How_They_Know_It

I found the following on WIKI and it would indicate that the twin tail design just happened to be available. WIKI also indicates that it was recognized by 1942 that a single vertical stabilizer and rudder were more effective. Like putting a larger velocity gun on the "Sherman" it was not...

I have read many books (dissertations and published books on many aspects of WW2) and think Germany could have done much better in some of the aircraft that became operational after September 1939. I think it is Kay (or Smith) who is very positive about the 187 having been a bomber interceptor...

Street Without Joy was the first hardback book I purchased and I still enlisted. But I just did a quick search and found several accounts of the French Indochina air operations. Spitfires were mentioned as the best fighter the French had initially but they also operated Mosquitoes which I...

There is this book which is available through Amazon. No. 7 Bomber Squadron RAF in World War II. Evidently 7 Bomber Squadron was well known and you might search to see if there are any squadron reunion records. You could also check to see if the German side has any record of this incident...

If you provide details of name and rank then it will be easier to search. A lot of young men killed! No Moon Tonight is a heartbreaking account.

I don't think it was a feint because of the lack of other activity on that night/morning (see my reply above) but the database that probably has the most information is: Losses Database - International Bomber Command Centre Good luck. If you read one of the detailed operational history...

I mean to say, I couldn't find anything in the histories (one is the official RAF 4 Volume history) and did not find anything.

I pulled out Middlebrook and Everitt The Bomber Command War Diaries: 28/29 June Minor Operations, It reports only 14 aircraft to St-Nazaire, 4 Lancasters minelaying in River Gironde, 1 Stirling on the St-Nazaire raid was lost. I have a couple of multi volume histories on bomber command. There...

If no one has mentioned it. I would suggest reading Daniel Uziel's Arming the Luftwaffe. I will note that Uziel's reports that by 1944 or 45, only about 10% of the workers in German aviation plants were German. The rest were foreign workers and slave labor. The attempts to hide, disperse, or...

Snowygrouch, I pre-ordered your book from Amazon. Received it on my birthday. I have read Smith, and Gunston, and I am about 60% through your book. Thank you! I have been wanting something like the Great Horsepower Race for years. I will admit I don't understand a lot of the detail but I...

Williams' books are excellent or go to his excellent online resource which he linked above. As others have pointed out not all weapons of the same caliber (diameter) are the same. An example that is familiar to most folks is the 38 special and the 357 magnum. They have the same bore and you...

I found a reference web site called BulletPicker. If you search for PD, No. 253 Mk 1 - 3 then you should arrive at: PD, No. 253 Mk 1 - 3 and a diagram for the fuze and a diagram of the US Cartridge, 20mm HEI, Mk 1 which is stated to be almost the same as the British cartridge (no sure what is...