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I didn't think that the Flying Tigers started combat ops until late Dec 1941? So not sure they were in a position to tell anything to anyone Also while there was a number of KI43 Oscars the majority of the fighters in the IJA 'fighter estate' was the KI27 Nate fighters during the period of the...

You accept that in the face of the limits of Submarine and small vessel supplies that such an action was necessary and that losses will be taken to the point where the freighters being sent are considered expendable. There are plenty of famous convoy's where heavy losses were sustained and...

The biggest issue with the unsustainable financial practices that the NAZIs were conducting during the 30s was the freeze in wages not keeping up with inflation. Not a problem where you are effectively creating a police state with the suppression of Unions etc and controlling the price of goods...

Well something would be better than nothing and I am not suggesting that it would be easy!

HMS Venomous shot up some tanks while withdrawing the British Garrison - it was a captured fort over looking the harbour that shot up HMS Venetia causing her to catch fire with Venomous destroying the fort and silencing the guns in two salvos of 4.7" The next night a remarkable feat was...

Quite!

That will learn the Swine!

I have a Haynes Manual on the German Infantryman - all models 1939-1945 (I purchased it for a laugh as it was reduced to a £5 - but its actually an excellent source of information) - so why not!

I think if the USAAF were capable of conducting a raid of the order of devastation of the Tokyo raid or one of the 2 Atomic raids on Germany before it surrendered then they almost certainly would have done. Anything to bring that hateful war to an earlier end!

Wasn't it something horrific like 250,000 killed in occupied China?

I suspect it has but is outside of the scope if this work?

"Remember the Texas" The sinking of USS Texas by U-203 on 19th June 1941 and the subsequent declaration of war by the USA on Nazi Germany The book details the history of the Battleship and the U-boat leading up to teh events of 19th June 1941 It details the actions of U-boat captain Rolf...

Yes a very interesting thought exercise Do they go all in and try to force Britain to terms or try to conserve the air force for the struggle ahead?

A39 Tortoise vs Jagdtiger II. An account of the only engagement between both tank types during Operation Plunder in March 1945 and the British tanks subsequent use as a Super heavy Siege tank in the last months of WW2 Hunter F1 vs MIG 15 An account of the efforts to stand up a Scratch Hawker...

One of the reasons for Operation Cerberus (AKA the Channel Dash) in early 1942 was, aside from the RAF and USAAF using the ships a bombing targets was the belief that the British were going to launch an invasion of Norway and it was in late 1941 that Hitler ordered planning for this mission for...