I read somewhere that a german "cargo sub" delivered a bunch ( 800?) of MG 151/20's to Japan, and those where used in the firts batch of Ki-61 Hein. Any truth to that? Another tale is that a me-109e was also delivered the same way, and test flown by Japan to comparison against it own fighters...
I might be wrong, but it looks to me that the picture Soren posted IS NOT a Bofors AAA, but rather a 50. cal mounted on a remote controlled APV turret. Notice the grenade launchers, and the muzzel, tipycall M3...
Well , if the tank belong to the Viking division , it is tecnacally not a " stupid fritz" :D since all the man in the 5 SS were non-german foreign voluntaries.
Regarding some of the things said earlier on this topic, I have to coment that the Panther was in fact a great weapon, and the germans did made a lot of strategic mistakes in its use, buit if anything the biggest one was to speed so much the development of this tank. They should had given the...
I discover a way to make it work: when the game is loading I have to press ESC as soon as the movie starts. For some bizarre reason, if I let it play for more than miliseconds it becomes impossible to stop till it ends and then the computer will freeze. If UI stopo the movie right at the...
I had been playing for years with FB + AEP, and just bought 1946. Installed it , but it simple wont play right. Whem I start the game, it goes to the loading page , then to the presentation movie ( which I can stop using Esc) and then to the initial page. There it freezes, and that is just it...
Well, if it is apreciation you are looking for, I have to say that is by far the most interisting topic on the forum, at least to me. If anything, I would ask you to post more often...
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Well, on the night of 15/16 March of 1944 a Lancaster from No. 617 was on a mission to bomb Metz when it was attacked by 3 Me-110 night fighters.
The rear gunner on the Lancaster was Flight Sergent T. J. McLeans, a scot in his second tour who already had five kill to his credit at that...
Well, the 109 in this collection has a very nice history. It was based in Finland, and damage in combat with Soviet fighters. The pilot managed to land on a frozen lake in Norway, but the plane just sited there until the lake de-froze. It sunk and it was only raised again on the 80’s. Sadly, the...
I might be wrong, but I read somewhere that the allies believed the Hein was based on the Italian Folgores, hence the nickname "Tony".
BTW, the me-109E provided to japan was sent by long range sub, crated. Together it also went a big ( 600?) load og MG 151/20. Most of those were used in the...
To me, the most incredible action described on " legends of WWII" from the Aircraft of the aces series is the flight by Capt William Schomo and Lt Paul Lipscomb on Mustangs, January 1945, in the Philipinies. They attacked a japanese formation of 12 single engines and 1 bomber. Schomo downed 6...
This a whole other discussion, I don´t wanna get in to now. We will just disagree on that. In my scenario, I will always consider that Pearl Harbor never happened.
Something that people are forgeting: Well , we all agree that the most important ground front would be on Russia. Let´s say the soviets are finally wining, and begin to pushing back the germans. We still don´t have a ground front in France, nor the possibility of one in the short term. Anyone...
Well , I n my opinion, in creating this scenario we can´t even consider the possibility of Japan attacking Pearl Harbor and the US fighting only in the Pacific. It is not credible at all. Either they stay out of the war or they would fight it in both theaters. FDR wanted to get in to the war...