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by phylo_roadking
Thu May 07, 2015 4:41 pm
Forum: Weapons and Equipment
Topic: T34 Analysis
Replies: 2
Views: 2921

Re: T34 Analysis

The one about the sloped armour reducing the amount of space available internally is a typical Soviet era design fault; immediately postwar, all those "domed" turret designs through the next 10-15 years meant exactly the same thing, a lot of lost/unuseable space in the turret out towards t...
by phylo_roadking
Thu May 07, 2015 4:33 pm
Forum: Weapons and Equipment
Topic: 7.5 cm Gr 38 H1/B - date of introduction into service?
Replies: 2
Views: 3073

Re: 7.5 cm Gr 38 H1/B - date of introduction into service?

David, that's great - it puts the original 7,5 cm Panzergranate 38 (HL) into the Sealion timeframe ;)
by phylo_roadking
Tue May 05, 2015 12:33 pm
Forum: The Allies in WWII
Topic: Passage UK to Vienna, May 1942?
Replies: 2
Views: 4612

Re: Passage UK to Vienna, May 1942?

I'll check this one for you over the next few days. At least one Abwehr agent got back to Germany via Lisbon from Ireland...and Sean Russell, CoS of the IRA, travelled from the UK to Germany during the war by approximately the same route.
by phylo_roadking
Sat Mar 07, 2015 7:55 am
Forum: What's New
Topic: Update of Server / Forum Software
Replies: 14
Views: 15766

Re: Update of Server / Forum Software

And good to have the full, detailed " advanced search" function back :)
by phylo_roadking
Sat Mar 07, 2015 7:52 am
Forum: What's New
Topic: Update of Server / Forum Software
Replies: 14
Views: 15766

Re: Update of Server / Forum Software

Oh, the "formatting" buttons? They appear on mine...

Leo, clear out your cache/history....then when you come back on the site again, it should "force" them into view.
by phylo_roadking
Wed Feb 25, 2015 4:53 pm
Forum: The Allies in WWII
Topic: Brit/Aussie 25 Pounders
Replies: 4
Views: 5922

Re: Brit/Aussie 25 Pounders

Hi John....going by the name the only options are either the then-current 25 pdr...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_QF_25-pounder ....or what's usually called the 18/25 pdr...or the "Mark I" in that article...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_QF_25-pounder#Mark_I ...and going by t...
by phylo_roadking
Fri Feb 13, 2015 2:02 pm
Forum: Weapons and Equipment
Topic: 7.5 cm Gr 38 H1/B - date of introduction into service?
Replies: 2
Views: 3073

7.5 cm Gr 38 H1/B - date of introduction into service?

Hi all - can anyone give me a date for introduction into German service of the 7.5 cm Gr 38 H1/B HEAT (hollow charge) round?
by phylo_roadking
Wed Feb 11, 2015 4:49 pm
Forum: Operational Map Project & Archival Research
Topic: NARA Records Now Available on DVD Media
Replies: 65
Views: 68506

Re: NARA Records Now Available on DVD Media

Annelie - a spam account got through the security check and posted up a few posts. When they were deleted their posts were too.
by phylo_roadking
Tue Aug 26, 2014 3:26 pm
Forum: Soldatenheim
Topic: Combat vehicles: track or rubber?...
Replies: 5
Views: 8341

Re: Combat vehicles: track or rubber?...

L., I think it's more that "today" our hostilities of choice...ahem...require dual-role vehicles - AFVs that are both practical APCs and infantry section carriers wiv turrets on in the modern battlefield.... AND can be used as impressive "policing" vehicles". Our fault for n...
by phylo_roadking
Sun Jun 22, 2014 3:08 pm
Forum: Kriegsmarine
Topic: Did Günter Prien Have Help at Scapa Flow?
Replies: 28
Views: 17880

Re: Did Günter Prien Have Help at Scapa Flow?

John...if you're still looking in on this - and others who have commented... Noone needed to help Prien - the Germans were inside the RN's codes from virtually the very first day of the war if not sooner! :shock: The Navy's movements, daily wireless traffic etc. would have been monitored - in the fi...
by phylo_roadking
Mon Jun 16, 2014 3:27 pm
Forum: Weapons and Equipment
Topic: Vehicle count - Heer 35th infantry division, early war
Replies: 0
Views: 2247

Vehicle count - Heer 35th infantry division, early war

Guys, I'm trying to obtain a rough (or precise!) vehicle count for the 35th ID either at the beginning of the war, or the beginning of the campaign in the West on May 10th 1940. I have a count for the 35th's MT as of the Sealion period in September 1940 - when horses were withdrawn from some consitu...
by phylo_roadking
Sat May 10, 2014 11:24 am
Forum: Veterans and vet info
Topic: Goodbye
Replies: 38
Views: 32291

Re: Goodbye

Rest in peace :(
by phylo_roadking
Tue Apr 22, 2014 5:03 pm
Forum: Soldatenheim
Topic: Generation War TV movie
Replies: 3
Views: 6307

Re: Generation War TV movie

First part is this saturday evening!
by phylo_roadking
Thu Dec 19, 2013 3:02 pm
Forum: Kriegsmarine
Topic: ships needed for Sealion
Replies: 159
Views: 75398

Re: ships needed for Sealion

...not forgegtting that the thousands of men the Kriegsmarine "found" to man the hundreds... thousands ... of commandeered barges, and fishingboats, and motorboats, and ferries - came from the crews of their damaged capital ships that were under repair after Norway! A little wrinkle there ...
by phylo_roadking
Fri Jun 28, 2013 4:35 pm
Forum: Veterans and vet info
Topic: Goodbye
Replies: 38
Views: 32291

Re: Goodbye

Haen, I can only echo Leo's thanks with my own, and everyone on the management team's, for all the efforts you have put in over the years here and elsewhere.

I will be sorry to see you leave :( And even more sorry for the how of it...