Hi!
I live west of Cologne in Germany. My dad found a tire in the woods a long time ago that is said to be from a US shootdown.
I'm also a private pilot, but this is too specific.
Here P38s have been shot down, but it could also be another plane.
It was 1944 or 1945. Düren is very close by...
Both Germany and Japan came to use a similar solution for their nightfighters: obliquely mounted cannons.
As far as I'm able to find, both came roughly at the same time (1943, japanese slightly latter) but I do not come across any source that stated that there was any knowledge transfer between...
Hi all,
Hoping someone can help with some questions on the German/Luftwaffe Mammut radar.
1) Can anyone please confirm that there would be ONE Mammut radar at any one site, as opposed to a cluster of Mammut radar? All pictures I've managed to find suggest they would be singular, but wanting...
Hello! As my first thread and post on this website, I wanted to ask if anyone knows if the two armor plates below/above the radiator set on the wings were present on the Bf-110C or appeared in a previous version. I swear those were present previously for the C4 (on the game war thunder when it...
I know the basic fighters like the BF109, Macchi, P-40, Hurricane, and Spitfire but which specific types were there? For example where any G-2 Trops there or was it just F-4's
If anyone has info that would be cool cause Wikipedia doesn't say anything about the production of the G-2 tropical or...
I love Italian planes to the point of death but Brodie i ain't gonna lie the British planes were insane. If you like the Spitfire Mk.14 probably, the best, plane like you are respectable if you like that plane
Next is the TA-152 if you like this plane you got to go, you gotta go you are a...
While the Zeppelin-Staaken R-series bombers were the biggest bomber aircraft of World War I, with wingspans approaching that of the B-29 Superfortress, there was a colossal German triplane under construction by the time of the Armistice, the Mannesmann-Poll triplane. It would have dropped...
What would a force on force airwar over France in 1943 look like had there been no Operation Torch and therefore Tunisian/Sicily/Italy campaign, but instead the US and UK saving up forces to invade France in 1943 like in Operation Roundup...
Any of you guys watching this? Pretty good so far and it's getting very high praise from critics. It's an alternate history if Germany won the war, which V-A day was 1952. The US is divided between the Japanese on the west coast and German occupation on the east. Time is early 1960's
View...
Well I think it's time for a bit heavy metal.
Late in the 70-ties I bought some Italeri PzKw IV modelkits for an apple and an egg, as we say in Germany.
Really I built two tanks but I will describe only one in detail. I bought an engine and a transmition from the after market. The...
36th Fighter/Bomber Wing, Furstenfieldbruck, Germany 1950-53.
User Name: T Bolt
Name: Glenn
Category: Advanced
Kit: Revell F-84E Thunderjet
Scale: 1/48th
Accessories: SuperScale Decals
This Jet was the personal mount of Col. Robert L. Scott when he was the commanding officer of the 36th...
Col. Robert L. Scott, C.O. 36th Fighter/Bomber Wing, Furstenfieldbruck, Germany 1950-53.
User Name: T Bolt
Name: Glenn
Category: Advanced
Kit: Revell F-84E Thunderjet
Scale: 1/48th
Accessories: SuperScale Decals
This Jet was the personal mount of Col. Robert L. Scott when he was the commanding...
Supposing a wildly implausible situation in which Germany is stymied in 1940 leading to their defeat in 1941, what would a Franco-British war against the USSR in 1941/42 have looked like in the air as they fight over control of Central Europe?
The scenario, for those interested would be...
Assuming a scenario were the European Axis fought the Soviets alone, say something like Churchill dying pre-war or early on before be becomes PM so Halifax cuts a deal after the Fall of France. So Germany is at peace with everyone and able to trade with the world, plus of course extract...
A couple of threads right now discuss the consequences of ww2 not having happened, at least at the historical time. The problem, in my opinion, is that it is impossible to Guess what would have happened after september 39. The argument that the Germany couldn't have launched the war in, say, 45...
Oil shale in Estonia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1938 Estonia produced 181,000 tons of shale oil. German firms were the largest producers.
1980 Estonia produced 31 million tons of shale oil.
Appears to me 1930s Germany missed a great opportunity to solve their oil shortage. Offer...
Greetings,
Will be in Cologne Germany next month (April 2015). Are there any must-see's in the aviation (or even general history) vein nearby?
Would appreciate any and all opinions!
Jon
Tomorrow (March 7th) marks the 70th anniversary of the seizure of the bridge at Remagen, Germany. A lucky coup for Gen. Hodges 1st Army. With allied forces using the bridge to cross the Rhine, the end game began for Germany.
Battle of Remagen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia