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• Pre WWII Czechoslovakian military photos - help needed!!

  
  World Affairs Board — Authority: 154
  Hello gents Hoping you all had a great Christmas!! I have been sent photos, by a mate who said that they were of Czechoslovakian military origin(pre-Nazi German annexation). I am after the names/designation of these vehicles/weapons if you know them please! Photo No.1 Purposeful and capable looking 6x6 truck? Photo ...
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• Arming ivan Russian small arms of WWI

  
  World Affairs Board — Authority: 154
  Arming ivan Russian small arms of WWI part 1: during the Great War, the Russians violated the first rule of a gunfight—have a gun Guns Magazine , March, 2005 by John Sheehan • Share • Print • Recommend0 The Eastern Front, September 1914--The Regiment changed formation from column to line as they approached the ...
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• G Heinrici.

  
  World Affairs Board — Authority: 154
  Simply the most skilled defender in the history of war. Statistically he has no peer. Comments? Boaz
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• Paul Hausser: Great or Over-rated?

  
  World Affairs Board — Authority: 154
  Everyone thinks the General Paul Hausser was a great commander. But was he really? His handling of Pz Lehr and 2 SS Pz in Normandy was arguably maladroit, and Glantz had no kind words to spare for his performance during Second and Third Kharkov. Was he really an excellent tactician? Or his reputation was based on his ...
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• Out of Ammo.

  
  World Affairs Board — Authority: 154
  How common was it in World War II for Allied ships to shoot themselves out of ammo on their AA guns. Talking about 5inch, 40MM and 20MM AA guns mainly. I am curious about this because been playing the game called Pacific war and after one or two major air strikes on task forces most ships run dry on AA ammo until ...
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• Martin B-26 Marauder torpedo attacks?????

  
  World Affairs Board — Authority: 154
  Evening gents I was having fun the other day watching my eldest son playing his Play Station 2 He was playing a game called ‘Heroes of the Pacific’. We had a great father to son conversation about the different types of aircraft and roles of the aircraft depicted in the game, which ranged from the likes of the ...
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• PTO Naval Battles

  
  World Affairs Board — Authority: 154
  Why did the Japanese lose so many aircrafts? I have been reading Wikipedias account of all the major naval battles in PTO, and it struck me as bizarre that the vaunted Japanese air groups were taking disproportionate losses in aircraft and men from Coral Sea to Guadalcanal, even in the battles that they nominally ...
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• Chamberlain a new look.

  
  World Affairs Board — Authority: 154
  A paper for class, once again looking for peer review. I had to either defend or refute the argument by Martin Gilberts position in Roots of Appeasement, that Chamberlains actions at Munich were, "an emergency plan, intended to buy peace at the expense of the disintegration of Czechoslovakia..." Moreover, "Munich was ...
  4 weeks ago

• Cameron and Brown Remembrance Photo Opportunity (ii)

  
  Beau Bo D'Or — Authority: 460
  This pic is a bugger to resize while maintaining detail. If you click on the image, you will be taken to a smaller version. Sorry for this, but some bastard political party nicked one of my images. Here we go : Not for use on/in any commercial site/paper etc. or official political party site/newsletter/medium. Please ...
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