One thing that pisses me off is the unending revival of long dead topics and the addition of completely banal comments. A look at the topics shows the majority are revived old turds with nothing pertinent added. We have hardly any new topics!
I never said the Wesserflug would or could have been viable. The point is that it is quite obvious that it, along with many German aircraft designs, were later incorporated by others around the world. It was the origiator of the concept nothing more. Give credit where credit is due.
Hitler never intended to invade Britain during the war, period. He felt blockading it with U-boats and ravaging the Continent would make GB sue for peace.
IF he had decided to invade GB in 1935 he would have had Speer develop the appropriate vehiclles and equipment to do so by 1940...
The 110 was one of many planes that was conceived as one thing before the war and employed in the way it was needed in actuality during the war. It was fine against all the European air arms which had lesser crates but against more modern ones like British fighters it was poor. During the BoB...
The Luftwaffe employed a deal with a cable that reeled out with a bomb on it to break up bomber formations too. Presumably it was then relseased to cause the same alleged havoc by flailing around and hopefully slice up a bomber or 2.
P-47s alone flew half a million sorties dropped 132,000 tons of bombs, fired 135 million rounds of ammo, 60,000 rockets, destroyed 9,000 locomotives, 86,000 rail cars, 68,000 trucks, 6,000 armored vehicles and 60,000 horse-drawn vehicles.
Christ, 1st it was top speed as some magic factor in aerial victories now it's back to the the same old turning crap for the millionth time! When are you folks going to realize that kills are not made by one segment of performance of one particluar aircraft over another? Since Erich and I have...
Back in the 1950s-60s all we saw was the same stock footage over and over in any movie or documentary! It was amazing that so much stuff was languishing on shelves unseen for decades and things like the History Channel have brought it to light.
When you're so drunk you believe you can stand on your bed and hit the toilet 10 feet away this happens sometimes.
TPBM has never has AAA batteries when he needs them.
True enough but the reason the Germans couldn't go forward then was that considerable development was needed for the special gearboxes, drives, pivoting mechanisms and prop pitch controls for landing and taking off. Too many other priorities in the Reich at the time.
I am not so sure the series brings to light that much lost evidence but as usual with superb CGI, good writing and editing the programs really put it all together so the viewer gets a far better idea of the battles than simply reading it somewhere.
The one they had on Tarawa as great. I'd...
Of course they should have. After the war it was a balls out race to keep ahead of the Sovs and every scientific brain on the subject of rocketry should have been exploited.