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Matt B. wrote:Does anyone know if this was in fact done or even considered?

Would a U-boat or sections thereof even fit through a railway tunnel?

jamesjack wrote:PS What kind of grave does the Panzerman get, sudden, honourable, or iron?

Iron.

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 ...

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...

You might try a book called "The Sword of the Lord: Military Chaplains from the First to Twenty-first Centuries" edited by Doris Bergen from the University of Notre Dame Press. I don't own it, but read it as a citation in another article. On another note - according to this reference, ther...

You might try a book called "The Sword of the Lord: Military Chaplains from the First to Twenty-first Centuries" edited by Doris Bergen from the University of Notre Dame Press. I don't own it, but read it as a citation in another article. On another note - according to this reference, ther...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 (...

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 ...

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...