Would a U-boat or sections thereof even fit through a railway tunnel?Matt B. wrote:Does anyone know if this was in fact done or even considered?
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- Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:40 am
- Forum: Kriegsmarine
- Topic: Shipping U-Boats by rail?
- Replies: 16
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Re: Shipping U-Boats by rail?
- Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:25 am
- Forum: General WWII German Military Discussion
- Topic: Panzerlied
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5105
Re: Panzerlied
Iron.jamesjack wrote:PS What kind of grave does the Panzerman get, sudden, honourable, or iron?
- Mon May 28, 2007 4:20 pm
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: Accuracy of a scene in the movie "Patton"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5546
Accuracy of a scene in the movie "Patton"
In the movie, there is a scene during the Allied advance through France in which two American columns are snarled up at an intersection. Patton jumps in, plays traffic cop, and gets the columns moving again. That got me thinking: Was this scene pure Hollywood or was there actually some point in the ...
- Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:07 am
- Forum: General WWII German Military Discussion
- Topic: Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
- Replies: 24
- Views: 11049
Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
I was watching the movie "Conspiracy" with Kenneth Branagh playing Heydrich and got to wondering... Heydrich was assassinated by Czech agents trained by the Brits. As I think through all the other major Nazi leaders, I can't think of a single example of the Allies trying to assassinate ano...
- Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:55 am
- Forum: General WWII German Military Discussion
- Topic: German field chaplains in Russian captivity
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3591
- Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:55 am
- Forum: General WWII German Military Discussion
- Topic: German field chaplains in Russian captivity
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3591
- Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:17 am
- Forum: General WWII German Military Discussion
- Topic: Christmas songs?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2321
Re: Christmas songs?
Were there any Christmas songs that were sung by members of the armed forces of the Heer, Kriegsmarine or Luftwaffe? To go with the season! Merry Christmas all! :up: They're probably the same songs that you sing today! Although this reference dates to the First World War, a book I'd recently read a...
- Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:05 am
- Forum: General WWII German Military Discussion
- Topic: Female POWs
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9598
Re: Female POWs
Can someone pse tell me about female POWs? Where there many of them and how were they treated? Were such POWs taken on all fronts? I don't think there were many captured, but it did happen. Treatment ranged from chivalrous to rape and murder. I own no books on the subject (the ones I do own on POWs...
- Thu Oct 26, 2006 2:12 am
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: Des Moines US Cruiser
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2821
Hi, I've found more information from the Newport News website. Although it doesn't mention the Des Moines , it does mention that the Newport News had it first, so it might have been a design change introduced in the midst of the shipbuilding programme: There are two reports, one from 1947 and one fr...
- Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:09 am
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: Des Moines US Cruiser
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2821
Re: Des Moines US Cruiser
Both the sister ships, Newport News and Salem had air conditioning fitted, but it wasn't fitted to the Des Moines Anyone know why? Regards Are you certain the Des Moines had no air conditioning? I did a Google search and found a blog of someone who served on her and he mentions in passing that one ...
- Sun Oct 08, 2006 4:58 am
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: German contribution to post-war Soviet rocket programme
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3986
Thank you for finding and posting this information. The German contribution to the US space programme was so extensive, I thought it must have been equally important to the Soviets. I'd been curious about how the German engineers and technicians were enticed to work for them. I'd considered that som...
- Sun Oct 01, 2006 2:33 am
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: Assault Guns
- Replies: 31
- Views: 11618
and if you were not desperate for resources you'd have built tanks. . Is it not true (in general) that an assault gun on a particular chassis could enter service with the gun of the larger, next generation tank? While a PzkwIII was fitted with a 50mm gun, the StuG could take a 75mm and the Panther ...
- Sun Oct 01, 2006 2:09 am
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: US military service of famous authors?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7996
Issac Azimov served as some sort of clerk. Camp library? During the war years, Isaac Asimov was employed as a chemist at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. He entered the military only after war was over, where he served as a typist in the US Army. I looked this information up on his publisher's website (...
- Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:14 pm
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: turret overhangs
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8578
Yep, I'm in the Allied section tho LOL I meant the British designs - I lost track of which message board I was reading! I've not the foggiest about designing tanks so I'll just make idle speculations. Does the additional weight of an overhanging turret significantly shift the center of gravity too ...
- Tue Sep 26, 2006 5:25 pm
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: Belgium 1939/40
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3530
A date of 13 October 1937 might be what you seek. Transcripts from the Nuremberg trials may be of use since Germany was charged with waging aggressive war. Charge XIX reads as follows and refers to a document entered into evidence as TC34 and Exhibit GB-100 that may provide more detail: CHARGE: Viol...