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    Sturmovik -- IL-2

    It was a Sturmovik IL-2 ground attack plane.

    Heavy armor around the engine, gas tanks, and pilot's seat.

    The tail gunner was on his own (and they died like flies.)

    The Soviets built 37,000...
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    Sid, I'd say you owe that CZ-75 a certain debt of...

    Sid, I'd say you owe that CZ-75 a certain debt of gratitude.

    Hope that when you've got it cleaned out it keeps on ticking properly.
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    One Commando unit liked Garands --

    They received the US rifles because in the Torch invasion they were supporting US forces and the brass felt it would make ammunition resupply easier.

    I think it was No. 6 Commando, but don't bet...
  4. Not new to either nation --

    IIRC I've seen paintings from Europe in the seventeenth century showing similar patterns.

    I'd guess the hat-fabric of the day wasn't exactly waterproof -- come rain it would droop. If you fold up...
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    Not just Blacks --

    Wilson didn't like Orientals either.

    At the Versailles Conference in 1919 the Japanese introduced a Racial Equality Clause -- by modern standards very mild, just calling for nations not to be...
  6. Interesting --

    I found the uniforms, weapons' effects, and drill very informative.

    However, I'm sure that the veterans of WWII and later on this forum would be howling in laughter at how cooperative the...
  7. TR & racism

    Roosevelt (Teddy) was an odd duck -- I've read Morris' "Theodore Rex" which is not, IIRC, the best bio out there.

    Roosevelt combined fierce & consistent racism with an equally fierce idea that...
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    Actually --

    Ford was born in 1913, so he would have been about 5 when the influenza hit.

    Obviously he would not remember the event -- but I'm sure he got an earful from family members and neighbors shortly...
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    IIRC from the US Army "Green Book" on aid to US Allies --

    the French received a large amount of US war aid in the latter part of WW II.

    In late 1944 the French had four divisions on the Western Front -- they occupied the line just north of Switzerland. ...
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    "Lost Battalions" explains this very well.

    The evil Republican leaders in Congress (er, excuse me, Southern Democrats) did not want to see ANY African-American troops in the front lines -- their...
  11. Well --

    "I found, by chance, a copy of a military book (33 pages) from the War College for US Army officers on how to set up and use their snipers aggressively in trench warfare. Odd thing is, it was...
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    One soldier said --

    going into Salerno in 1943 --

    "It's like climbing down the outside of a six-story building with a refrigerator on your back."
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    "Spearheading D-Day" -- a very good book on the topic of the technical and doctrinal preparation for the landings, and how it worked out.

    They have a set of images of re-enactors showing the...
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    -- the guns that had been in the batteries (155 mm cannon -- effectively equivalent to the US Long Toms) had been cleverly pulled back by the Krauts about 1.5 mile. This way, all the naval...
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    Marines at Normandy -- not exactly

    When the Rangers were trapped at Pointe du Hoc (they accomplished their mission, but were cut off from the main US forces at Omaha Beach for 2-3 days) one Marine officer afloat wanted to reinforce...
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    One point --

    Remember that Roosevelt broke the law by aiding Britain in many ways in defiance of Congressional Neutrality legislation. He basically (and illegally) promised Churchill that the US would eventually...
  17. [QUOTE=Louis of PA;39593]Rudder's men fought off...

    [QUOTE=Louis of PA;39593]Rudder's men fought off one German counter attack after another. By the third day, they were low on food, ammo, medical supplies, everything.

    On that day or the next,...
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    at least he can be sure the "visitor" knows what he's doing with it.

    There was a picture in George Forty's book on the US Army in WW II showing Ike (Eisenhower himself, if there were any other...
  19. Chinese & North Korean prisoners --

    One of the reasons the war dragged on so long was the prisoner issue.

    The Communists would not release our prisoners (any) unless we returned ALL North Korean and Chinese prisoners.

    However,...
  20. Valor of 93rd's regiments

    The French had had a long tradition of using African soldiers in action. According to the book "Lost Battalions" (a bit left for my liking, but an interesting read) the French COs were puzzled by...
  21. Minor disagreement with Mr. Hamilton:

    Washington was certainly the only US battleship to single-handedly reduce another capital ship to sinking condition; IIRC Kirishima was scuttled after the crew was evacuated.

    However, in Surigao...
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    Photo taken in 1937 . . .

    I wonder how many of those young cadets were alive six years later.

    Americans complain a lot, but at least haven't (outside of Guam) been occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army.

    I can't recall...
  23. Regarding photo --

    If it's the same one I saw about two years ago IIRC the guy with the bazooka was killed on D-Day at Pointe du Hoc.

    Freedom isn't free.
  24. Why sidearms in Ferry Command?

    I'd guess most of it had to do with signalling. While sound may not carry far in a jungle it'll do better than line of sight.

    Second, most European and American troops of the day had the...
  25. My guess is that the US government of 1870...

    My guess is that the US government of 1870 (Ulysses S. Grant, President, if I remember correctly) had a better grasp of reality than more recent administrations.

    Since Canada was closely...
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