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Just to go a little further off the original topic, Continental continued developing the R-975 and sold a lot of 525hp versions for HUP helicopters. Some crop dusters used them; I was told that they worked well at high altitude fields in Idaho.18,000 out of nearly 50,000 M4s produced.
Also, the Continental R-975 was a variant of the Wright R-975, so while the Continental was based on an aircraft engine, it was never used in any aircraft.
The Continental R-670, on the otherhand, was used both in tanks and aircraft.
The fact of the matter, though, is that out of ALL American armored vehicles produced, radial power plants were not in the majority.
Greatest bomber pilot in history has to be Major Kong.View attachment 667243
Rudel destroyed more than 500 soviet tanks and it was more than any other german tank aces.
I know stukas 37mm cannon can destroyed Soviet tanks but 37mm was not a perfect weapon.
Using 37mm cannon to attack enemy tank, stuka pilots attacked tank's weakness point but 37mm's power is still not sufficient.
In M26 vs Panther's tank engagement, after M26 shoot 3 90mm rounds and Panther was completely destroyed. So how about 37mm? It was really weak cannon to take out enemy tank.
So germans make Hs 129's 75mm cannon but rudel didn't rode in this plane.
I think 500+ tank kill was overclaim... however rudel was a greatest bomber pilot in the history.
What do you think?
Why undoubtedly an ego-driven liar?Dedicated and rabid Nazi. Undoubtedly an ego driven liar as well.
Better in what way?There cannot be enough references to Rudel's political beliefs, he was a dedicated Nazi, even after the war. His record has always been in question because of his close ties with Hitler and Nazism. At his funeral there were over 200 dedicated Nazi believers who gave the Nazi salute. A better man to honour would be Anton Korol, a JU87G ace with a record more genuine.
They may have done, people who believe in the cause they are fighting for usually do a better job of it.Better in what way?
Rudel's political beliefs didn't affect his flying or shooting skills.
People who were there tell me otherwise. Modern revisionists are looking for a way to make people feel better, and are not especially keen on dispensing truth.Greg, everything I've read (Shirer and Goldhagen each go into this in some detail) indicates that no more than 10-12% of Germany's 80 million citizens joined the NaZi party.
Nazi Germany employed a variety of carrots and sticks to coerce compliance. Under the Gleichschaltung laws, every organization in Germany had to have a Party member on their board, who exerted undue pressure on these organizations to toe the party line.People who were there tell me otherwise. Modern revisionists are looking for a way to make people feel better, and are not especially keen on dispensing truth.
People who were there tell me otherwise. Modern revisionists are looking for a way to make people feel better, and are not especially keen on dispensing truth.
Before the vote on the Enabling Act, several leading opposition politicians had either been arrested, or were being held in "protective custody". Those members of opposition parties who did attend the Reichstag that day were frisked upon entering the chamber, and escorted to their seats by armed officers of Goering's Prussian State Police. Immediately following the vote, many more were arrested. The totalitarian state had already been established. The Enabling Act was just legislative window dressing.We can all believe what we wish.
When the National Socialist German Worker's Party (the Nazis) took control of the Reichstag in 1932, they did so with 37.4% of the popular vote. Between 1932 and WWII, the party didn't get smaller, it got larger.
OIn 23 Mar 1933, the Enabling Act passed with a vote of 444 to 94, and that is not a misprint. All civilian organisations, including agricultural groups, volunteer organisations, and sports clubs, had their leadership replaced with Nazi sympathisers or party members; these civic organisations either merged with the Nazi Party or faced dissolution. On 2 August 1934, Hindenburg died. The previous day, the cabinet had enacted the "Law Concerning the Highest State Office of the Reich", which stated that upon Hindenburg's death the office of president would be abolished and its powers merged with those of the chancellor. Hitler thus became head of state as well as head of government and was formally named as Führer und Reichskanzler ("Leader and Chancellor"), although eventually Reichskanzler was dropped. Germany was now a totalitarian state with Hitler at its head. As head of state, Hitler became Supreme Commander of the armed forces. The new law provided an altered loyalty oath for servicemen so that they affirmed loyalty to Hitler personally rather than the office of supreme commander or the state. On 19 August, the merger of the presidency with the chancellorship was approved by 90 per cent of the electorate in a plebiscite.
Anyone who thinks the Nazi Party got smaller between 1935 and 1939, when WWII started, isn't looking at the reality of living in Germany at the time.