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Category: War Machines
WW2 History: Brecourt Manor Artillery Explained
At the HBO Band of Brothers 2019 Reunion in Normandy, Capt. Dale Dye (Who played Colonel Sink in the series and is also a Military Historian and Advisor) explains how basic Military Artillery works and how the German 105 Howitzers operated at Brecourt Manor on D-Day. Discussion begins at 2:25 To see an excellent overview…
Savage M1918 Aircraft Lewis at the Range (With Rare Tripod Mount!)
Savage M1918 Aircraft Lewis at the Range (With Rare Tripod Mount!) A True Blast from the Past! What made the American Lewis Gun so powerful is it fired the venerable .30-06 round! A bonafide Man Stopper!
Know Your World War II Weapons: The Nebelwerfer Rocket Launcher.
China tests swarm of ‘suicide drones’ launched from a truck and helicopters
Everyday the novel Ghost Fleet written in 2015 by PW Singer is becoming a daily reality. SCARY.
Know Your History: Was Hitler’s Ho 299 the First True Stealth Fighter?
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/was-hitlers-ho-299-first-true-stealth-fighter-152356 The Nazi invention wasn’t exactly a “stealth” fighter, but it did share a certain idea. by Sebastien Roblin Key point: The plane never took over. However, it did accidentally stumble upon how a certain shape can help reduce a plane’s radar signature. Northrop Grumman revealed this year it is developing a second flying wing […]…
Know Your WW2 History: Jagdtiger SdKfz 186
The heaviest armored vehicle fielded by the Germans in World War II was the Panzerjäger Tiger Ausf B. This was built on a slightly lengthened Tiger II chassis topped with a fixed casemate and a 12.8 cm PaK 44 L/55 antitank gun. It weighed seventy-nine tons. A few early versions of the Jagdtiger had a […]…
We Accept Death, We Hand Out Death II
The forty-three-year-old Gruppenführer Hermann Priess commanded the I SS Corps, formerly Sepp Dietrich’s old formation, which contained 1st and 12th Panzer Divisions, totalling around 240 panzers on 16 December. We have seen via Dietrich’s career how the Leibstandarte expanded from a motorised regiment in 1939 to the largest division in the armed forces by December […]…
Military Organisation of the Holy Roman Empire
Know Your History, it’s Interesting Reading! Although firmly rooted and fairly well developed in the Rhineland, Franconia, Lorraine (the old Lotharingia) and Burgundy, feudalism in its widest sense was never as strong in Germany as in, say, France or England, and true knighthood and the customary granting of fiefs was unknown in Germany until…
“Best Job I Ever Had”
I don’t know why but while I was writing about tankers in WW2 today I went and watched Fury again just to jog my memory. Damn good movie. Great article on the M4A2E8 Sherman featured in the movie. Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!