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I think there was certainly a copilots seat in the Lanc, 'cos I saw an interview the other day with one of the Panton brothers, and the guy that captains "City of York" for the BoBMemorial Flight, and take off on the Lanc was definitely a three-handed job, the co-pilot jiggling the thrott...

Also the article specifically mentions the targeting of Hull’s main Hospital. Does anybody know if this was common practice in either Axis or Allied bombing strategy? Was it legally permitted? Regards, Andre I know of no air attack during WW2 in the west where a hospital was chosen as a target. To ...

John, that was a property of the "legendary" Norden bombsight, the bombardier "slaved" the controls to it and the fine adjustments he made in the blister to keep the pip on the "picklebarrel" literally moved the plane! By late 43 only the master bombardier in the lead ...

[According to the documentaries I sourced above, the Luftwaffe did not bomb any cities until after the attacks on London began. That just shows how bad they are :x This site has the day by day campaign diaries of the RAF, including the night attacks of the Luftwaffe. http://www.raf.mod.uk/bob1940/c...

I've heard the theory that Churchill bombed Berlin in order to get AH to retailiate and ease up the pressure on the RAF which was reeling by then. all the evidence on the British side suggests that Churchill ordered the attacks on military related targets in or around Berlin as a PR exercise for th...

Last month a traffic arguement ended in Tilburg city (Holland) with a decisive last word...a shot at someones head...the offender was armed the innocent was unarmed...point is...if the offender was unarmed he probably had beaten the other man to death..with his bare hands..so guns or no guns it rea...

The Luftwaffe had been bombing British towns and cities at night from the start of the BOB, London was the only British city the Luftwaffe was banned from bombing ( though the British were unaware of the ban, as the London suburbs had been bombed a couple of times before the 24th August)

Oh dear
Here we go with the same old myths yet again

Redcoat I disagree - and I'm a fan of Monty. But not always. The pursuit after Alamein may have been a logistical triumph but it was hardly impressive from the military perspective. Had their roles been reversed and Rommel leading the pursuit it would have been over in two weeks. What makes you say...

Redcoat No argument from me. But please allow me to pose a question to you: Who would rather have had in charge of the pursuit after Second Alamein - Monty or Auchinleck? :D cheers Reb Monty. He was a master of logistics. His army advanced 780 miles in twenty days after El Alamein. If this rate of ...

When he took personal command he was able to fight the DAK to a standstill in front of Alamein. (admittedly - Rommel's lengthening supply line was a factor) It should be noted that it took the Auk almost exactly the same number of casualties to hold Rommel in the first battle of El Alamein (13,000)...

Reb wrote:I believe it might have been the Czechs had the early design.

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Reb

Hello Reb
I think you are confusing the Bren which was originally a Czech design, with the Sten which was designed by a Major Reginald Shepherd and Harold Turpin in 1940

Reb wrote:An interesting note - the Whermact turned down the Sten before the war.

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Reb

Odd, considering the Sten wasn't designed until 1940.

The shooting down of Luftwaffe aircraft marked with Red cross markings while engaged in Air-Sea rescue is an interesting subject. First off, here is the international rules on Red Cross aircraft in place at the time. From the 1929 Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounde...

Hello! As redcoat shows the "overall length" of the 17 pounder varied with each Mark but the "length of tube" was always 165.45 inches. So, which do they go by to make the "L/Designation? Cheers, Wolfkin Sorry I wasn't quite sure what you wanted to know, but here's the answ...