Recent content by tyrodtom

If you write a comment, even if it's extremely critical, it is counted as participation, and that's how the site gets it's money. U-tube is being turned into a site for sheer nonsense, fiction, posing as truth. I don't see a realistic way to stop it, other than when see it, is post a thumbs...

A new wrinkle is animated AI, they take a real picture and then AI animates motion. Errors usually show up at once in the background, or sometimes you can see the motion they show is meaningless. Like a Marine looking at the wing guns ammo boxes on a Corsair, he's just moving his arms around...

Your figures for bomb tonnage dropped on Western Europe has to be way off. Just the USAAF dropped 188,563 tons of bombs on Germany alone from the 1st of Jan. 1945 till wars end. The RAF dropped 191,540 tons in the same period. If you took those figures from May of 44, and included the whole...

I'm 78, but since I'm still working on cars, I don't have the luxury of ignoring the metric system. I had to learn it, partially, in the military before I was 20, it's no great burden to be familiar with both.

Did you check the specific units, dates, and names and see if they actually can help confirm the information. I seen a lot of recent videos on U-tube that try to flood you with information, that on investigation, turns out to be just flat out fabrications.

About a month ago several sites started posting units with fantastically bad rates of deaths. Like some German flak units having 90% deaths. It was maybe because the poster thought a casualty is a death. A casualty is a unit member who cannot be present for duty because he's injured, sick...

I've been calling out AI generated images, and stories on Facebook for months. The ones that really piss me off is concerning the Holocaust. They'll have fake image pictures, trying to pass them off as real, with horrible mistakes that any idiot would see and realize they're fake, thus adding...

Don't leave us hanging, there's got to be an explanation for this.

I've got one of my older brothers 81mm mortar manuals from when he was in the Army in the late 50's, everything is in meters as far as the firing, and range finding goes. But I notice they give the size and weight of the mortar in inches and pounds. US artillery was metric even before WW2 I...

Maybe around 1919-20, It's got the Italy stirring the ashes too, the Russian civil war was in full swing, and various communists uprisings had been put down in Germany.

There are 1 thread per mm, 1.25 per mm, 1.5 per mm, and more, I don't have my metric thread pitch gauge handy at the moment. Any serious mechanic, or bodyman, and i'm both because I work on anything from a Rolls Royce to a EZGO golf cart, has to have a full set of tools in both metric and sae.

Tiedown failure ?

About the only protection a torpedo bomber has is being low to the water, and hard for the target to pick you out at a distance. With a four engine bomber it's going to be hard enough to hide, let along with a bunch of escorts that would point to you like a beacon.

I notice the presenter said repair patches were soldered on, I don't think so. We'd usually put what we called 100mph tape ( or was it 200mph?) on holes in the outer skin, then later a pop rivet patch. But if it also punchered a stringer or other structure underneath it would get repaired by...