Dad spent 1943 at Sherburn-in-Elemet photographing top secret trials of gliders for major landings such as Operation Varsity on this day March 24 1945. The secret trials were not so much about the gliders but how they handled carrying troops, panniers , field guns and even tanks (in...
1945
airborne forces
airborne forces experimental establishment
airmobile
allies
assault glider
british army
glider
glider infantry
great britain
transport glider
world war ii
First, my apologies: Recent eye-surgery has temporarily hobbled my Google_Fu...
( APHont and Ctrl-Scroll zoom for the win...)
IIRC, US sent but one (1) B-29 to UK to astonish and, yes, boost morale...
If deployed in numbers, such as for Silver-plate / Saddletree delivery, some spares might...
Hello, recently I've come across a 1942 Data Sheet for the Lockheed Hudson Mk.V aircraft, and in this sheet it lists the aircraft having:
* 2 x Fixed forward Firing .303s (500 rounds per gun)
* 2 x .303s in Dorsal turret (2000 rounds per gun)
* 1 x .303 in a ventral Position (1000 rounds per...
In reading "Diary of A Wartime Naval Constructor", DNC Sir Stanley Goodall's wartime diary, I can identify most of the ships referred to, but there are repeated references to a 20Kt Fast Oiler, probably for the 1945 Programme, where I'm coming up blank.
1942
P136. 11 November: … Bateson...
1940s
1945
allies
british pacific fleet
director of naval construction (royal navy)
fleet replenishment oiler
great britain
logistics
pacific ocean theater
replenishment oiler
royal navy
world war ii
As any deeply invested Spitfire fan knows, the intended major developments never eventuated and the history of the Spitfire was one of interim variants that did very well. The dead ends are as follows:
SPITFIRE III: Merlin 20 development with four cannon and major airframe revisions; abandoned...
air ministry
allies
alternate history
british commonwealth
british empire
fleet air arm
great britain
improved spitfire
raf fighter command
royal air force
royal navy
supermarine aviation ltd
vickers-armstrongs limited
what-if
world war ii
101st airborne
1944
1st airborne division
1st independent parachute brigade (poland)
82nd airborne
airborne forces
allies
battle of arnhem
british army
first allied airborne army
glider infantry
glider pilot regiment
great britain
operation market-garden
paratroopers
polskie siły zbrojne na zachodzie
reichskommissariat niederlande
united states army
world war ii
xxx corps
So a dude on the War Thunder forums, "Whelmy", found some docs on this Canadian "super heavy tank" a number of years back, designed by a Canadian dude named (lieutenant) Norman Samuels. Unfortunately i only saved one of the documents from his posts, but he did publish a number of them back in...
Due to the jet age, various super props never go to production despite their high performance. Among those, it can be said that XP-72 and Spiteful F.16 were the most high capable design.
So let say if these prototype got to production stage, which would be the ultimate piston fighter?
XP-72...
allies
british commonwealth
fighters
fleet air arm
great britain
post-world war ii
pursuit aircraft
royal air force
royal navy
united states
united states army air forces
world war ii
I am reading an article on the LW/AW radar set designed in Australia. It states the first production unit went into full operation at Tufi in November 1942.
When I google Tufi airfield, all I find is this web page, which claims it was built in the 1960s...
allies
australian new guinea administrative unit
british commonwealth
commonwealth of australia
new guinea campaign
new guinea force
oro province
pacific ocean theater
radar
royal australian air force
territory of papua
united states navy
world war ii
A German report on Allied aircraft discovered by Gregory D. Heuer at NARA and published at the Luft46 Facebook public group,
https://www.facebook.com/groups/678300375530524?locale=pt_PT, showing what I believe is a Soviet Belyayev design, sharing many "EOI" or "PBI" features. Comments are...
Himself a crucial Allied asset (imposing Jointery, heedless of uniform colour) SACEUR Ike's Memoir (Crusade in Europe) gave 5 “pieces of eqpt (we) came to regard as among the most vital (to) success” (in his ETO: doubtless a Macarthur Pacific list would differ). Published in 1948 he disclosed no...
allies
armée de terre
british army
british commonwealth
british empire
france
french third republic
great britain
meteorological field service
meteorological office
meteorological survey
the great war
triple entente
united kingdom
weather reconnaissance
western front
world war i
world war one
ww1
wwi
aircraft carrier
allies
battlecarrier
battleship
british commonwealth
british empire
fleet air arm
great britain
interwar period
royal navy
world war ii
Hi all,
The purpose of this thread is to compile and present sources regarding Italian bomb types, fuzes and tactics used in the Central Mediterranean from their entry into the War in 1940 to the Armistice of Cassibile in 1943. This is meant to complement my other thread about German equipment...
allies
axis powers
british empire
early 1940s
great britain
kingdom of italy
light bomber
malta
mediterranean
mediterranean and middle east theatre
mediterranean theater (wwii)
medium bomber
regia aeronautica
strategic bomber
world war ii
Hi everyone,
This thread is about the French tanks designed or contemplated for the new tank program drawn up by the French Inspector of Tanks in December 1939-February 1940, Général Keller.
This wartime program was intended to organize development of tanks in control of the infantry branch...
Is the water-alcohol injection R-2800 on the P-47s, so they can make 2300-2600-2800 HP instead of 2000-2100 HP, also cheating?
Engineer in ww2: we've managed to make our engines do extra 15-20-30% HP more, with reasonable reliability.
21st century enthusiast: cheater!
Three things:
- there...
1944
2024
allies
axis powers
d-day
european theater of operations
fortress europe
operation overlord
second front
the longest day
western front
world war ii
When I was surfing the Internet, I saw a post on the World of Warship Forum(https://forum.worldofwarships.eu/topic/3095-what-if-the-war-began-in-1944-royal-navy-battleships/) that an article assuming World War II would have broken out in 1944.
And after reading that, I wondered what would...
In 1939, France's Edgar Brandt & Company offered the French Army a series of three HEAT grenades...a 50mm-diameter design to be fired from standard infantry rifles, a 60mm design to be fired from the rifle-caliber medium machine gun in single shot mode, and an 80mm design to be fired from the...
1940
1940s
allies
anti-tank
armée de terre
armée française de la libération
armée secrète
conseil national de la résistance
edgar brandt & company
forces françaises de l'intérieur
forces françaises libres
france
french third republic
high-explosive anti-tank
late 1930s
pre-world war ii
projector-grenade
rifle grenades
world war ii
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