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I am curious...any comments? From the size and edging that I can see in the repro, it's a typical posed 'end of course' type photo of the era. More than probably, the prisoner/deceased from whom the photo was appropriated is in the photo. Is there anything handwritten on the reverse? Often the owne...

Hi Guys, Is there any real point to all these extravagant marches and drills? Sid. Sid I'd proffer they serve the following purpose. Primary - a reinforcement and continuation of instilling instinctive discipline, plus teamwork or what the "group hug everyone" fags of today would label bo...

Frederick L Clemens wrote:Ha, Ha, Sigrun!! The URL is posted in another thread on Sajer in the books section. I can repost it here

If you wouldn't mind? Something qualitatively supportive would present far more convincing an argument than the opinionated rhetoric you'd subjected us to thus far.

Frederick L Clemens wrote:The author himself has a French-language interview on the internet in which he states that the story is fiction.

Really? URL? Oh? You can't 'remember' the details?

Hi Paul, "At the time of V-J Day, 555 P-51Hs had rolled off the Inglewood production lines. The last P-51H rolled off the production line in 1946." Argue the actual number with these guys. You may well be right. http://nasaui.ited.uidaho.edu/nasaspark/safety/types/P51H.htm 555 + however ma...

Sheer attrition was wearing down the numbers of Stukas being built, Sigrun, and making more was a bigger waste of resources (as I see it) than diverting a certain percentage of radial-engined Fw-190s to the job of ground attack. "Sheer attrition" was wearing down the numbers of everything...

Freiritter may not think much of the Fw-190 as a ground-attack machine (possibly comparing it to Allied fighter-bombers), but as for me, given a choice between a Ju-87 Stuka and a Focke-Wulf 190, I'll gladly take the Fw, with its greater ability to take care of itself if it were intercepted, compar...

Hi, One of my friend who was pilot in the french air force told me that the Mustang was sometimes nicknamed the "pregnant shrimp". Have you heard of this nickname ? Dackel If you don't mind me chiming in? In over 30 years in aviation though I've never heard it referred to in those terms, ...

Last thoughts,( we hope ), on range-endurance. Ask any ww2 pilot what he'd rather have, choice A- good range and or endurance, or chioce B- exellent manoeverability, good top speed & hitting power. Rather a no brainer I should say. Speaking of no-brainers, your non-contextual verbiage is as obt...

Hi Greenhorn Except for the fact that the crews were in such an adrenalin charged state for the mission and keeping such a high tenor of lookout, ordinarily they wouldn't have seen them coming at that rate of closure, clean screens or otherwise. Most would have only been alerted to the fact literall...

hmmmmmmmmm I thought I adressed the attack from the rear easily enough already. Hi Erich. Wasn't questioning that it happened with my "not me thanks". That was simply a personal exclamation of "I'd rather not thanks". Once the G's & more B24s came along with chin turrets, at...

I believe they did, Greenhorn, if by "Pathfinders", you mean squadrons which fly ahead of the heavy bombers like Lancasters and drop incendiaries/flares to light up a target area for the big stuff. Yours, Paul "Pathfinders" didn't operate in formations TMK. They did form Squadro...

What kind of panzer would you like to drive. None. I'd rather be its commander. Just consider me an in control of my own destiny insofar much as that can be arranged control freak. But if pushed at gunpoint, any one as long as it's at the rear of a large, large formation, out of enemy direct fire r...

Last thoughts on range. The Me 110 had better range than the 109, or Hurri's & Spits, but what good was it if it couldn't fight for beans when arriving at battle zone? Range is not near as important as fighting ability.( again, I didn't say it wasn't important, I said "not as" importa...

Greenhorn Minimal self-exposure (time, speed and size) whilst taking advantage of a distinct weak point in the case of the B17F formations. The trade-off was that the shot was really a snap-shot at centre of mass due to the rate of closure. Given all that aviation fuel just waiting be set alight (in...