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76.2 MM Sherman Main Gun by Linda2
...am and was very aware that people get mistaken ideas and that this might have been one of them. I posted my questions to get some accurate information and some references. So far everyone who has dire...
US fighters in the PTO by Heath Patrie
Hello all, I have a question about US fighter aircraft in the PTO. At the outbreak of the war, our main fighter was the F4F... right? And it was inferior to the Zero. But by '43, we were begi...
US Army organization and leadership by limerpharm
...ifle platoons, 1 weapons platoon and hq. Platoon lead by lieutenant divided into 2 or more squad. First question-any errors with the above? Second-where does a major fit in to the command structur...
Three sided wars. by Alex
...y started fighting the germans when their former allies attacked them. In another thread this raised the question of what would have happened if the Western allies had been at war with both the sov...
French secret service in WW2 by Attiyah Zahdeh
...I guess, where any 'official' secret service would have to answer to). This is an interesting question. Please post any info you recieve! Sincerely, K.C./Ben'sgirl/Keeper of...
American tanks by juanorez
...d an old Tiger commander that had a long scar down the right side of his check. He said that it was never a question of one on one fighting, meaning a Sherman against a Tiger. it was 10 to 1 or more l...
Whats it like to kill a man? by Lambofsatan
...ny soldiers as he claimed. Marshall was an icon in his time and few, especially within the army, would dare question his assertions about how many soldiers fired their weapons in combat. My recent...
Sweden in WWII by Stgruppka
Much more intriguing is the question of what would have happened if Finland had accepted help from Britain and France in February/March -1940. Both countries offered to sent contingents to Finland (i....
Allied and Soviet aircraft losses by Lalalalar
...nged, the posting software reads the NAME variable from the environment. Mr Chizhikov submitted the post in question.] True. False. About 25,000 were claimed by German fighters. Most of the re...
Why did the Germans kill Jews? by tp3
Mm Interesting Question there. Good evinning people my name is tp (Short for thapelo). I am a History Major student at University of Western Cape. I am chllenged to adress the topic to my first yea...
Intentionalists or Structralists the debate between Historians by juel
... NS party officials themselves had a rather vague impression of the real meaning, this is a quite difficult question. The theory (if we call it that for the purpose of discussion) bases on a strange m...
How long Germany would PAY for II WW to USA ......? by manau
(human) says: I am not sure what your point or question is. I am not aware of any current payments by Germany for WWII damage, except for payments to Jewish Holocaust survivors. During the first h...
German soldiers performance verses Allied soldiers by Alexosar
...ndser's dream to get transferred to Normandy and fight Americans. For a Landser in Russia it was not a question if he survived, but how cruelly he died. Among the 'good' units (the Russ...
why was the atomic bomb unjustified or not needed? by RAMjb
...to strenght to debate anything, I take that as a serious accusation and I want your immediate answer to the question of WHICH topic I've closed, exactly, for I've closed no topics at all sin...
education about atomic bomb by irony
...chers would have had the nerve to teach revisionist bullshit even if they wanted to. In regards to your question little was taught about the development of the bomb when I was in school. I don...
Japanese invasion of US mainland reasonable? by mortimer
iminent Japanese invasion of the West Coast< You got that right. A Japanese General said early in 1942 'When we take over California, the Californian,s will have to live like us(meaning Ja...
Was it possible that the Japs would have considered/contemp l... by RAMjb
To be quick and short: no. There was no real chance the japanese could mount a succesfull invasion of the US mainland anyway (even Hawaii would've been untenable for them) because of their commit...
why did hitler hate the jews? by RAMjb
as for the real question, noone knows. It's hard to understand the works of a sick brain. And Hitler was certainly sick, if not by nature at least by evolution. AS for the possible answers...w...
Overreaction on the West Coast [was: Re: Japanese Whine Too Much! by Alexosar
If the Japanese government thought they could trust all Japanese persons living in the US, then they would not need to have made the claim that THOSE PARTICULAR CONTACTS in San Diego and San Pedro [an...
how close ware the germans to getting a nuclear bomb by Kiwiguy
...orts by PTB one in 2005 which immediately dismissed the samples before even analysing them which calls into question PTB's objectivity. The second report was in 2006 which contradicted itself,...
Reason for Japan not invading continental US by RAMjb
Not sure if I can agree with that. By all accounts Japan never tried to win a head to head war vs the US. They wanted to keep a steady rythm of victories over them, while establishing a double layer o...
Gustav Winter was supposed to be 1 of Hitlers High ranking o... by John G
MYSTERY has surrounded Villa Winter since it was built in 1937. Why was a beautiful spacious villa built in the back of beyonds, accessible only by sea, or miles of dirt track? Was it co-incidence tha...
Gustav winter MYSTERY has surrounded Villa Winter since it w... by Guest
Gustav winter MYSTERY has surrounded Villa Winter since it was built in 1937. Why was a beautiful spacious villa built in the back of beyonds, accessible only by sea, or miles of dirt track? Was it...
Manipulating The Reports of The War, Here's How by Andrea
...role in the scandal, but it shouldn't end there. Our democracy is in peril when mainstream media fail to question the official view and put the interests of ordinary Americans first. This watchdog ...
The Israeli- Arab Conflict, Or How Far You Would Go To Survive by Andrea
...hat Morris is not included in the strategic decision making in Israel and is after all an historian. The question is different and it is a question that many nations faces from time to time. What a...
I've never really been big on history by Vetrolic
...ypical person my age, i guess i never make time for it or maybe see it as a bit much of an effort. So my question to you, the audience, is what are your favourite stories about history?  ...
Lincoln and His Admirals by Andrea
...rites about the book : Weeks into his presidency, Abraham Lincoln was confronted with his first naval question: What to do about Fort Sumter? First, should he re-supply it--and risk war--or not ...
Would The Internet Change The Course of The War? by Andrea
Found this interesting question is a post about the 65 Anniversary to the Pearl Harbor Day. I have to agree that it would have had a huge influence not just on the coverage of the war as a result...
Have We Learned From The Past? by Andrea
In his book What’s Left?: How Liberals Lost Their Way Nick Cohen, the British author raises the question of the way European liberalism treats Islamic Terrorism. Beyond the contortions and be...
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