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.............For example: Polish Staff and policy makers believed, that Romania was still our ally, according to the treaty of 1921. So, we were sure that we were selling aircraft to a friendly state. No, Florin, I'm not saying, that we were betrayed or so. The matter is a little bit more complicat...

. . . . . . PZL P.43 Czajka , an export version of PZL P.23 Karas light bomber was being sold to Bulgaria just before the war. The planes were being completed in summer 1939, so some of them reached Bulgaria taking off from free Poland, and some were delivered after the September Campaign by the Ge...

The photos available in the following links show a Ju-88D manufactured to be a long-range photographic reconnaissance plane:

http://www.worldwar2.ro/forum/index.php ... 2475&st=30
http://www.worldwar2.ro/forum/index.php ... 2475&st=45

Hi Tony, The Romanians did not "send" their own designs for evaluation by the Germans, but German pilots did evaluate Romanian designs in Romania from early 1941. This was because the IAR80 and JRS79B medium bomber needed German-supplied components and materials and the Germans wanted to ...

Thanks for the info on this, gents. It's an aspect of the conflict I'd been pretty much unaware of. I think a few countries came to regret some of their previous aircraft sales - from what I remember a few Hurricanes ended up with Axis satellite forces? And am I completely confused here or did Germ...

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The German authorities should have access to this find, and try to trace in what library belonged before. I tried a search on Internet to see what German governmental agency overview antiquities, but I could not find anything.

I do not know how long this link will be available on Yahoo-News: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110425/ap_on_re_us/us_old_book_utah ...So I made a "Copy" and "Paste": 500-year-old book surfaces in Utah By BRIAN SKOLOFF, Associated Press – Mon Apr 25, 5:59 am ET . . . . . . . . . ....

I know, the question is about Berlin... However, for who is interested: I noticed that in the flea markets of New York the immigrants from the former Soviet Union offer all kind of German WWII things, like daggers, medals etc.

.................... Looking at http://www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/ships/index.html and inparticular: http://www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/ships/panzerschiffe/admiralscheer/operations.html Sheer is conducting trials during most of this period and so not likely available and Hipper comes out o...

What happened on 10 December 1941 off the east coast of Malaya, near Kuantan, the capital of Pahang, would have happened 17 months earlier off the coast of Dover.

Helmut wrote:So what type of fuel did American and British tanks use?

Gasoline - according to what do I know.

Hi Roadking, Because you mentioned the engines of the Soviet planes bombing Berlin in 1941, I have to say they were very unreliable. Few Soviet bombers were lost just because of that, during the raid in August 1941. Because other bombers reached Berlin, the mission was considered a success. As a res...

My personal opinion: if the invasion would be attempted in June-July 1940, BEFORE making sure that the Royal Air Force was terminated, it would succeed in geting a bridgehead in the south of England. The British battleships coming from Scotland would be vulnerable to aerial attacks and submarines.

I have one marked "Zendrick" or "Zendrik" ( it is not on hand, and it is far away ) and also with "SS".
I asked myself what "Zendrick" / "Zendrik" meant. At least it is obvious it was issued for SS.

Higher pressure in the combustion chamber of Diesel engine needs thicker walls for those cylinders, to cope with that pressure. With the technology available in the 1940's, that resulted in heavy engines, unless you use aluminum, like the Soviets for T-34. The Germans needed their aluminum for the h...