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- Thu Dec 25, 2008 8:26 pm
- Forum: General WWII German Military Discussion
- Topic: Quality of Fuel used by Germna Armed Forces.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6392
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German aviation fuel was 87 octane, right? So, what was the octane rating for their land-forces gasoline? Yours, Paul By the early 1930s, automobile gasoline had an octane reading of 40 and aviation gasoline of 75-80. Aviation gasoline with such high octane numbers could only be refined through a p...
- Thu Dec 25, 2008 8:07 pm
- Forum: General WWII German Military Discussion
- Topic: German POWs
- Replies: 29
- Views: 13249
Re: German POWs
The city i grew up in held the largest number of German POW's in Canada during WW2. A number of these prisoners used to come daily to the family farm to dig potatoes, milk cows, etc. This last spring they had an exhibit set up showing archives, paintings, sculptures,carvings made by former German PO...
- Thu Dec 25, 2008 7:40 pm
- Forum: General WWII German Military Discussion
- Topic: German officer serving in regular French army after WW2
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5680
Re: German officer serving in regular French army after WW2
does anyone know the total number of former wehrmacht and SS whom served with/under the French at Diem Bien Phu Prison camp was even worse. The French troops, many of them not even French, were constantly starved, beaten and heaped with abuse. Many died. The Viet Minh used the presence of veteran Wo...
- Thu Dec 25, 2008 7:10 pm
- Forum: General WWII German Military Discussion
- Topic: How could Germany win the war?
- Replies: 107
- Views: 40811
Re: How could Germany win the war?
Germany to win the war...in a sense they did for a limited time in a sort of sense, then what?? The type and form of government they intended to impose on the masses of people had they defeated or occupied Great Britain, and in a fantasy sense got the Soviet Union to surrender, what now? Yes they co...
- Thu Dec 25, 2008 5:14 pm
- Forum: Luftwaffe
- Topic: Israeli air force BF109s?!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6599
Re: Israeli air force BF109s?!
http://www.spyflight.co.uk/images/JPGS/iafvraf/mule.jpg http://www.spyflight.co.uk/iafvraf.htm The IAF had to address its lack of fighter aircraft and slowly the first few Avia S-199s, Czech built versions of the Messerschmitt Me-109 that were purchased by Israeli agents in Czechoslovakia, began to...