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...wouldn't you consider the Tiger II to have an overhanging turret?

The best I could find was of a model kit.

I saw a film about the world war 2 atlantic battle and saw that bombers were flying dropping bombs on the Atlantic ocean. Were they attacking U-boats? What bombers were those? In addition to the B24 that CY mentioned, Ventura and Catalinas were used by the Yanks and Wellingtons and Short Sunderland...

Here is a link to more information about the sinking.

http://www.leopoldville.net/

You are correct. A transport carrying elements of the 66th ID from England to France was sunk by a German torpedo, resulting in the deaths of 14 officers and 748 enlisted men. I believe this took place on Christmas Eve, 1944.

Hi Patrick Your use of the word spirited is interesting. It lends itself to something murky or underhand. I would have thought that if feasible, POW's would be treated in a perfectively normal administrative way? Regards It certainly wasn't meant to be murky or underhand. It was meant in the sense ...

I can speculate... In a history of Vietnam (Stanley Karnow's book, I think), it was written that Franklin Roosevelt felt very strongly that Indochina should not revert to French rule after WWII was over. He refused to provide the equipment and transport that the French needed to return and retake Fr...

Bratwurst Boy wrote:When the British evacuted from France in 1940, did they bring any captured Germans with them, from either Wehrmacht or Waffen SS?

I'd read "somewhere" that the Brits made sure that captured German pilots were spirited across the Channel.

Pirx wrote:Was William Wharton (real name Albert Du Aime - Birdy, A midnight clear) serving in US Army 1944-1945?

I did some googling - his biography is extremely limited, but there was one that said "he undoubtedly served in the US Army in Germany". Can't help more than that, sorry!

If you can tell me who produced the McCarthy hearings for the newly formed PBS and what he did the USMC, and why he did that and not something else, I'll give you a cookie. :up: Having recently seen "Good Night and Good Luck", the McCarthy hearings were produced by Fred Friendly. However,...

I googled on some author's names that came to mind and found these: ---------------------- Herman Wouk ("The Caine Mutiny", "Winds of War") was an officer on destroyer minesweepers in the Pacific. Randall Jarrell, author of "Death of the Ball Turret Gunner", served in t...

Its been years since I read on it so the details are lost to me. A certain US corporation owned business assets in Germany. Up through 1945 their represenatives in Germany took good care of the corporate property. As the Allies overran Germany some senior manager asked the US Army to provide a guar...

Hello, I hope this isn't considered too off-topic... I just watched a television programme on the contribution of German scientists (that of Wernher von Braun and Walter Dornberger, in particular) and the V2 (or A4, if you prefer) to American post-war rocket development. It was mentioned that the So...

I saw in a documentary by Walter Cronkite about KMS Graf Spree, it stated that there were 6 Chinese laundrymen in the Kriegsmarine who served on KMS Graf Spree. Even comes with a few second clip of one of them, in a German military haircut, cleaning Kriegsmarine uniforms! Does anyone on this forum ...

I'll be in Berlin on business next month. Are there any museums or other sites that anyone can recommend seeing? Thanks.