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Going back to the quote by Puller, I'm can't imagine that too many readers are surprised that he was in no mood to tolerate Japanese prisoners after what he and his men experienced on Guadalcanal. The battle reports from that island give some idea of the shock experienced by US troops when they firs...

Independence is pretty unlikely. There has never been more than a 30% 'YES' for independence recorded in polls in Scotland at any time since the war. It really isn't something that the majority of people in Scotland are interested in - note again that not everyone in Scotland is Scottish - quite a l...

Just watched one of the tank restoration programmes on UKTV History about the Panther. Very interesting to see modern mechanics discussing the very poor primary drive of the Panther which, compared to the Sherman, was weak and prone to breakdown as well as being very difficult to service. Strange th...

They need to hold a referendum to find out just what people in Scotland (who are not all Scottish people of course) actually want. The SNP are in power, i feel, because voters were fed up with Labour - not because there's a great desire for independence. Alex (not Alec) Salmond is a good politician ...

Well a fair few probably ended up in the SAS - David Stirling was a member of Layforce so i would assume that he recruited several men for his new unit from that source. Don't have any books to hand to check at the moment, though.

I don't know where the author of that piece of work got his information but the RAF did not have napalm or 'oil containers' in their ordnance inventory! (They did use phosphur bombs and standard magnesium incendiaries, which may be what is meant). A firestorm was, as many historians of the bomber of...

These guys do what appear to be 'boot knives' in their Third Reich weapons and daggers section.

http://www.sofmilitary.co.uk/reenactors/select.asp

There's a Heydrich museum at the Cathedral of Cyril and Methodus and it's in the actual crypt where the final gunfight took place.

There are also some other museums you might find interesting...

http://www.prague-tourist-information.c ... /index.htm

You have to bear in mind that Britain had an empire and dominions who provided many of the RAF's top flyers in both WWI and WWII. Even Americans were happy to go and fly for their 'cousins' in the UK. Germany had no such source of manpower, although it would be interesting to know how many people of...

Ney? Big deal. For heroes i'll always go for Ensign Ewart of the Royal Scots Greys, the captor of the 45th infantry's eagle - as Napolean called his regiment "le terribles chevaux gris". Okay, i'm Scottish, but any country that gives the world golf and whisky deserves praise!!

Why on earth did German paratroopers use those terrible one-strap parachute harnesses that caused such problems with landings, carrying of personal equipment, etc? Weren't the Germans ahead of the other nations in parachute usage - at least for pilots - in WWI? Why did they use such impractical gear?

For NCO aircrew to be commissioned wasn't unusual in Bomber Command, in fact men would often go from Sergeant's rank to officer's with very little fanfare! Bomber Command was crewed mostly by NCOs and it is a reasonable generalisation to say that it would be the more 'important' men such as pilots a...

D-Day is, quite rightly, seen as one of the major turning points in WWII. Simply put, it signalled the beginning of the end for Germany in the west, and more to the point, ensured the liberation of the European countries under German rule. I would agree that on D-Day itself, the forces that faced th...

I think you'll also find that the FBI in 1936 was hardly an efficient world-wide intelligence gathering service!

The bombers sent against the target would consist of four distinct stages. The first to reach the target would drop massive 4,000 and 8,000 lbs. High Explosive bombs to crater the city streets, in order to hamper the progress of relief workers. 'Cookies' or 'blockbusters' were large capacity blast ...