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Hi everyone! For everyone who celebrated, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and if you don't hope you had a good week! I know...

June 22nd – August 15th – 1940 – The Battle of France – Part I – The Escault & the Drive to Sedan At 0500 hours on the 22nd the Escault...

The way forward for the British is very much dependent on when/if they capture Tripoli, and at what cost. In addition, once its clear...

I've seen the Video's of this show and remember watching it, you'd think that with the Trek movies they'd be able to make lighting...

The Japanese didn't even have to go that far. What cut off their oil was invading French Indochina. They were told, in advance, that...

For those who want to visualise @CalBear 's comment about Japan's math problem this is a nice video: Basically the US goes...

THE specialist? Not really. More than a couple folks here are at least at, if not ahead, of my knowledge level. I am, however a well...

The issue with the 5.25 wasn't really the shell weight (although it was pretty darn heavy), but rather that it relied on manual loading...

Let me point out that when a country starts the war by taking hostages on a mass basis, shoots said hostages for little if any reason on...

Well, actually, yes, I have, thank you very much. For nearly a quarter of a century, I was a Royal Marine Commando (1959-1982). In that...

well there was this thing and the rather bonkers idea that it would have supported during the Carter years - - and whilst not feasable...

May 24th – June 21st – 1940 – The Battle of Belgium – Aftermath – Germany Halder could have been in no doubt about the outcome when he...