Feldgrau.net

On the strength of your source — would you cite it? It's the war diary of the Wehrmacht High Command/National Defence Branch, as translated by Klee for the USAF. It's on one of the USAF web sites as a numbered historical diary. It's not the full diary, it only concerns the air war and Sea Lion from...

Hop, I am not talking about the 28/29 August raid. My understanding is this: 25/26 August: RAF raid on Berlin kills no civilians 28/29 August: RAF raid on Berlin kills a few civilians (consistent w/ you) 3/4 September: RAF raid on Berlin kills "hundreds" of civilians It's still not true, ...

That same night the German towns of Geldern, Goch, Aldekerk, Rels and Wesel were attacked by the Whitleys of the 77 and 102nd Squadrons. It's worth noting that these 5 towns were attacked by a grand total of 9 bombers. The targets, of course, were their road and rail bridges, in order to cut off th...

There is a difference between Berlin and other cities. Not only is Berlin the Capital of the Reich, but Hermann Goering had publically boasted that if Berlin were bombed, his name would be "Mudd" ("Meyer" in German). No, Goering made that boast about the Ruhr, not Berlin. And Me...

A "stick" of bombs drops over a distance approaching one mile, which would explain the scattered damage reports No, what explains the scattered damage reports is nothing to do with the length of a stick of bombs. There's much more than a mile, and sometimes several hours, between these lo...

These are very interesting facts. And I must revise my understanding — you have shown me that it was not the bombing of London that Churchill reacted to, but the bombing of CENTRAL London. I didn't understand that nuance before. However, although you have shown that the Greater London area was bomb...

Churchill made reference to the jamming in his history of WW2, but he referring to the Germans being unable to navigate, not to them being deliberately sent to Dublin by British interference: On the very first night when the Germans committed themselves to the “Y apparatus,” our new counter-measures...

When the Germans bombed Dublin by mistake (Churchill later admitted to interfering with the German radio beacon signals) Ireland didn't respond by bombing Berlin. The Irish maintained their neutrality. Not what Mr. Churchill planned. Do you know anything about the various German guidance beams and ...

With all due respect, facts are facts. With all due respect, the facts are not as you have stated them. Some bits you left out of your timeline: July: Kesselring and Sperrle, commanders of the 2 main Luftwaffe air fleets in the BoB, present their plans for the campaign to Goering. They call for the...

Paul, the link in your first post doesn't work, do you have the correct one? I suspect the post is by a non-technical author, but I'd like to find out (I seem to remember seeing a similar quote attributed to Overy) if the hi-octane stuff was so wonderful, why wasn't it used? cost? It was. The Britis...

Higher octane fuel does one thing: it increases the pressure you can achieve before detonation. What that meant in practice in WW2 aircraft was it allowed higher supercharger boost pressures at low altitude. It had little effect at higher altitudes, because the superchargers couldn't provide enough ...

I'd thought you were thinking of a British attempt to drop mines in the Rhine, or maybe a raid on a naval base. The RAF was not allowed to bomb Germany until the night of 10/11 May, following widespread German bombing of targets in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Even then, they were only allo...

Airframe production, million lbs weight:

Year UK Germany
1942 133 96
1943 185 142
1944 208 175

Aero engine production (thousands):

Year UK Germany
1942 54 37
1943 58 51
1944 57 55

For example, did the English really break the Engima Code or did somebody give it to them? The enigma code was broken by the Polish Intelligence Service who provided all information about it to the British and the French before the war. Enigma was not a code, it was an encoding machine. The setting...

Where else did you think we got the idea for the stealth bomber and stealth fighter? The idea? Well, the idea of stealth has been around since radar. When the British developed chaff to protect their bombers, do you think no one came up with the idea of stopping the bombers showing up on radar at a...