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...her words the details of the timetable and specific targets. I don't know if the report on the Crossfire blog is correct but I can't believe Bush plans to entangle in another war in the Gulf area ...
... And what is the problem really? Why can't civilians be spared? The simple answer is that the origin of fire on Israel are from the city itself. Think about the terrorist attacks on the USA on Sept...
... come all the sincere effort to free Iraq from tyrany and create a more modern or democratic regime backfires time after time, so I decided to remind everyone of the very simple very obvious reasons. ...
...counts. Troon However, I know he was on a LCT(R) Landing Craft Tank (Rocket) on D day. It had a miss fire on the second salvo and he was one of four survivors. He also has the Atlantic, Africa and ...
... USN Ensign = acting, I understand, as an instructor pilot. I have seen it said that the USAAF flew Spitfires but in what quantity I = do not=20 know. Peter B. =20...
...ave missed how the 282 radar/director worked with the pom-poms. 4-inch had mechanical fuses for barrage fire timed for set ranges, so the radar would be good to keep the barrage range ahead of the pla...
...the German auxiliary cruiser 'Kormoran' and HMAS 'Sydney'. The 'Sydney' was last seen drifting away, on fire, and no trace of her, or her crew, was ever found. The book in question suggested that sh...
Many people claim somehow that using the atomic bomb against Japan was 'immoral'. They claim the war could have been won using 'conventional' methods instead. I'm curious as to what the reasoning wo
...agan, landsman. Jacob Nickles, ordinary seaman. Robert Cook, first-class boy. Thomas Joice, first-class fireman. Robert Williams, first-class fireman. George Littlefield, coal heaver. 'O Eternal Lor...
...efield. However, the T-34 had sloped armor, a 76 and wide tracks. It was the epitomy of balance between firepower, mobility and armor protection. It was a rude awakening to the rather smug German army...
...ad. Failure of ethylene dibromide production in October and November, 1943, was caused by an accidental fire, and production thereafter was accelerated to make up the deficiency. In spite of this vuln...
...s the 23rd and the 72nd were composed of a large number of members from the Philadelphia area volunteer fire brigades. My question to you all here is this: What Pennsylvania regiments were particularl...
In the last days i heard the story of the German MG-gunner at Omaha Beach, who fired several hours during D-day at the landed soldiers, killing hundreds - perhaps thousends of them. 1. Question: Why
...as almost a totally hydraulic aircraft. Hydraulic fluid is highly flammable, and when hit by flak or gunfire, was more susceptible to burning than an electrical aircraft. Plus the B-24's Davis airfoil...
The Gatling Gun was invented in 1861. Why didn't the Union employ this rapid fire gun? Its proper use would have shortened the war. A similar question for breech loading rifles. Bob Kolker
...rman tank commanders (what did worry them, I suppose, is the 800+ meters they had to travel while under fire to get into effective range)....
...t to mention hung over) Brig. Gen. Stoughton & take him back to Gen. J.E.B. Stuart without a shot being fired in anger. In reality, Gen. Stoughton was one of the union's youngest 'boy generals' (24), ...
...i, I always wanted to know how precise CW artillery was. Let's say you have a Napoleon smoothbore anf fire at a target as large as an average car. There are no obstacles in the line of sight and the...
...s follows logically, because where there are lines of sight for photographers, there are good fields of fire and no one is going to be moving close to the enemy. Another likely situation for hand-to-h...
...860. They were a bear to use. The breech had to be unscrewed prior to loading, then re-screwed shut and fired. Very slow to fire and probably dangerous. Bob Kolker...
We read in the current news about 'friendly fire' killing our own troops. These are just the unfortunate accidents of war. How much friendly fire occurred to either side in the ACW? We know that T
...as working in a manufacturing plant and some of my work mates and I were fond of quoting lines from The Firesign Theater group. One of the lines that we would say to each other was, 'Who won World W...
...Confederate skirmisher near the Bliss Farm stood up and yelled toward his Northern counterparts, 'Don't fire Yanks'. Some Union soldiers raised their guns but others asked them to wait. The Confederat...
Flak towers provided an increased arc of fire for anti-aircraft guns by siting them above ground level obstructions, such as trees and houses. In German use they also provided protection for ammunitio
...ng the target 80% of your rounds were missing. Worse yet tracers instantly told your enemy he was under fire and from which direction. Worst of all was the practice of loading a string of tracers at t...
...ghts from soldier's journals, etc? What about any other battles in other states- were there any cease-fires?...
...aving good basic fighting skills. E.g. their trenches were covered so that they could call in artillery fire on their own positions. > > In the end, the Germans ran out of reserves > > and he won th...
...e read many stories about when Lee marched into Pennslyvania that hardly a rail fence was destroyed for firewood.. What if Lee had used the 'scorched earth' actions like Sherman? What if Lee would hav...
...se him to decline battle in 44? Why did Spruance give him the choice instead of a command? Did Spruance fire Lee later? Carrier admirals kept getting replaced to get winners so why not Lee, or is this...
...he 17 pounder was that it was hard for the British crews to get on target, as they were trained to spot fire and adjust. The 17 pounder had a bit of muzzle flash and smoke. And, it had such short time...
...ken, one of the difficulties with taking Fort Wagner was that it was a sand fort which withstood cannon fire very well. In the '73 Arab-Israeli War, Egyptian troops crossing the Suez Canal knocked d...
I have heard for years that the Civi War was caused by that S.C. firebarnd John C.Calhoun' Rep., Sen.,Vice Pres. of the USA etc. He ied n 1850 & was quite an enigma He was a dyed-in-the-wool states ri
...to get my father's military records and I know that it is possible that his records were destroyed in a fire. What I want to know before spending the money is if they exist will these records show w...
... Division, 1 Menditar Brigade. 1 Marine Division, 3 Marine Brigades. 3 Royal Guard Divisions Naval Gunfire Support: Atlantis had (and has) a large and powerful navy. On Amphibious landings naval gun...
Does anyone know how the Sherman Fireflf got it's name?
...bombs against purely civilian targets is as much a war crime as anything short of the Holocaust. In the fire-bombing of Tokyo of March 9, 1944 alone, estimates are that over 200,000 civilians died whi...
...estern Front and the armored engagements that occured there, I am always curious as to what the Sherman Firefly's main gun-the 17 pdr would be equal to in terms of millimeter. Is it a high velocity 75...
... Thomas used later that evening to extract most of his troops in a virtuoso example of withdrawal under fire). Bragg refused. I suspect that an attack up the road from Rossville by Longstreet's reserv...
...he best troops in Hitlers army. The greatest failure in Normandy was the tanks except for a few sherman fireflies the American shermans and British churchills and cromwells were way over there heads. ...
...swer as to why the Northern men went to war, fought and died. They and their country had been violated, fired upon. Then I thought that was probably why the Southrons (poor, non slavers) also went t...
I have been unable to find why, in 1939/40, the Spitfire was chosen over the Hurricane for installation of the Hispano cannon. This installation in the thin-winged Spitfire was a problem since the can
...wo old battleships in the Baltic: the Oktyabrskaya Revoluciya and the Marat. These were used to give gunfire support to Soviet army troops near Vyborg, but I find no information that they were engaged...
...swearing that the Union would not start the war and he also begged them not to become the aggressor and fire the first shot. Okay,here is the point.Can you tell me why southerners of that era consid...
...ve any information about 'Dora' at Stalingrad? Was she readied for firing? Kept entrained? Did she ever fire at all? What was the purpose of sending her (I can pretty well guess, for smashing dug in S...
...ed as a professional soldier, as did my father, who was a WWII vet (pacific). The Battle of Britain Spitfire pilots were some of my earliest heroes. I was taught that British civilians and armed force...
...s each 10 sq. meters of land). Even the bombing reports refers to minor secondary explosions, and large fires among the civilian buildings. Nothing else. It seems the intelligence was operated by the ...
... an overt and unprovoked act of war against the Confederate States of America. It is clear that the CSA fired on Sumter in self-defense. '...it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.'...
...as when the Tiger was first introduced; so would this mean that it could not withstand large caliber gunfire as in its early years? I do not know. Any comments to this reference would be well taken....
...hy the last!) on 16 January 1939. Then 2 bombs went off in London 4 February. Bombings, tear gas bombs, fires went on into the summer, with a particularly large attack in London in June. At the end ...
... entered the army, he preferred to do work in the safe rear. As a consequence if he found himself under fire at the front, he was wont to make a stir in his neighborhood until he got out of such inhos...
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