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Sounds like what the Whirlwind was intended to be...but failed dismally lol As for the DB605 being superior to the Merlin - nope. It carburetted better, courtesy of its injectores, and didnt thus suffer from the fuel lag issue of the Merlin's carb/supercharger combo.

Yep, Kurt Tank for what metamorphised into the MiG15 from captured examples, but then later into Argentina's first indigenous jet fighter after Tank emigrated there. Or the Horten Brothers for the flying wing concept, first developed in unpowered gliders before jet-powered versions were built, one o...

Strange. Just two days ago I watched a documentary on satellite about the US Army unit dedicated to tracking down and recovering looted artworks - including the works hung at Karinhall and also stored in a hidden vault there. Often personel from this unit raced ahead of Allied forces to specifically...

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Hi all - coming late to this....In my humble opinion, Britain didn't WIN the BoB...!!!!! Instead they simply managed not to LOSE it - it was after all a battle of attrition, and that you win by simply being the last man standing. Yes, the Poles contributed mightily, but so did the Ameriacns in the R...

Kerry Head or Kenbane Head?

Phylo

Can anyone please tell me how many Ju52's of whatever mark were in service in total at or around September 1941?

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Geoffrey DeHavilland in the DH108.....but he didnt survive it......

There were MkIVs in use in Norway right up to the mid-70's....why go for anything else/anything better due to the terrain lol. As for dumping planes at the end of the War in the Pacific, yep, was also done by the Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy; planes were dumped off the rear of carriers, both...

Interesting post, tho starting at the end to get off-topic. Remember at the end of WW2 there were hundreds of thousands if not millions of surplus small arms for disposal, from both (all) sides, and these were a useful source of revenue. Smallarms are even now exported/imported all over the world le...

Hmm, dum-dums and doctored bullets...I remember standing in a market square in 1983 in northern Italy and noticing that three nattily-dressed Carabinieri standing eying the skirt go by had the loose rounds for ther Berettas, in beltloops, "doctored" - three were plain, three had crossheads...

Hi. Remember a couple of things.... 1/20 Tigers a week may have been SHIPPED, but as the war in NA progressed the Allies did a remarkable job of interdicting the sea and air bridges into NA. Most of those ended up at the bottom of the Med. 2/ You have mentioned Tobruk? Tobruk was important simply be...

GI Ronson lighters were legendary for being leaky crap. Tip 'em up, knock 'em over....and next time you lit it you had a handful of flame. In other words, they bit back....bad. Sadly the Sherman was pretty rushed thru development and the rotary aircraft engine that was shoehorned in was never tested...

Yep, Vickers lookalike. And not just plagarism, they purchased with a view to testing, and even commissioned some models - though never took delivery, such as an amphibious version of the Vickers Light Tank. Armstrong-Whitworth-Vickers were complete tarts, during the '20s and '30s they'd sell anythi...

New Guinea was absolutely the most pestilential hellhole of the war. All the abbreviated comments above don't do it justice. The only people who can live of the land, so to speak, there are the natives. The terrain was almost totally impassible - the Aussies took tanks there and I heard once that a ...