What have you learned about WW2 recently?

Discussion in 'General' started by dbf, Oct 22, 2010.

  1. canuck

    canuck Closed Account

    They were obviously not talking to the right folks. Rockefeller would have shipped the Coke along with the oil additives.
     
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  2. A-58

    A-58 Not so senior Member

    Business is business.
     
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  3. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    If I knew this I had forgotten.... I just discovered that Major Ryder OC HQ Company who was murdered at Paradis was the brother of Commander Robert Ryder who received the VC for putting HMS Campbeltown in the right place at St Nazaire.
     
  4. MrEd

    MrEd Chief Observer

    that bpy scouts served as coast watchers and were considered for the observer corps and other home front duties
     
  5. A-58

    A-58 Not so senior Member

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  6. Harry Ree

    Harry Ree Very Senior Member

    There is very good coverage of Corregidor and Fort Drum in a past article by the ATB magazine.

    I recollect a film made around a postwar search for loot on to Corregidor,entry to which is now restricted.The leading player had also made a good film depicting escaping from the Philipines in the company of nuns....his name might come to me.
     
  7. James Harvey

    James Harvey Senior Member

    After watching my 20th war film, America won the war single handed:

    And America captured the 1st enigma machine according to u571, I didn't think they captured any until much later if at all in the war

    An American escaped from stalag lift 111, I thought they were all shipped out a month before.

    American forces captured Arnhem bridge, I could have sworn it was British airborne

    America done D Day all by its self, could have sworn they only had 1 beach assigned to them
     
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  8. Chris C

    Chris C Canadian

    I learned something about the Hollywood directors who made films for the U.S. during WW2 - there's a documentary about them up on Netflix. It seems pretty honest about the amount to which certain films used staged footage.

    Yesterday I learned that the British were investigating 8 and 12 pounder guns and considered putting them in the Valentine rather than a 75mm gun. (What would a "double baffle muzzle brake" have looked like?)

    Also (modelling wise) I have come pretty close to matching Light Sand with Vallejo paints. :)

    P.S. Hollywood is pretty terrible.
     
  9. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

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    double baffle muzzle brake

    Theres a picture in this link Ballistics


    TD
     
  10. Chris C

    Chris C Canadian

    Thanks TD, but for some reason I can't view that. I'll have to do some online digging.
     
  11. A-58

    A-58 Not so senior Member


    Are you serious, or just trying to be cute? This song and dance is pretty worn out and very lame. Try something else friend.
     
  12. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

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    Copy & paste this into google - "double baffle" muzzle brake - or check out the book below:

    Ballistics: Theory and Design of Guns and Ammunition, Second Edition
    By Donald E. Carlucci, Sidney S. Jacobson

    TD
     
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  13. James Harvey

    James Harvey Senior Member

    I admit it was flippant but what I have learnt about it after doing research was

    The British filmmakers had to cast an American in the lead role to ensure American box office success as British only war films of the era, did well in the uk cinema but flopped state side.
     
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  14. toki2

    toki2 Junior Member

    I am reading the first book of 'D Day Through German Eyes - The Hidden Story of June 6th 1944'. It contains the accounts of their experiences and their feelings towards the Allied assault. I was quite surprised that the overall sentiment was that it was "an attack on a united Europe" and not a liberation of conquered nations. Did the Germans really believe that they had united nations by occupation?
     
  15. Orwell1984

    Orwell1984 Senior Member

    Came across this interesting tidbit when reading Anti-Aircraft Command 1939-1955: The Other Forgotten Army by Anthony Cooper
    p34

    Smart !
     
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  16. RRTB

    RRTB 145 Fd Regt (Berkshire Yeomanry) RA

    I have just finished reading the book "War in the Wilderness - the Chindits in Burma 1943-1944", by Tony Redding.

    All I can say is: if there are any members of this forum who are former Chindits, I stand truly in awe of what you and your comrades went through in Burma, and thank you for doing what you did.

    To everyone else: I would highly recommend reading this book; the author's father was a Chindit, and much of the content of the book is derived from memories from 'those who were there', having been interviewed by the author. Some of these memories are amusing, many are sobering and some are downright unbelievable yet we know they are true. How any of these men survived is truly astounding.

    RRTB
     
  17. A-58

    A-58 Not so senior Member

    What movie in particular were you referring to here?
     
  18. Orwell1984

    Orwell1984 Senior Member

    Now reading Boer's Aircraft of the Netherlands East Indies Army Air Corps in crisis and war times February 1937 June 1942 and reading the section about the Martin bombers used by the Dutch.

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    Initially they were unarmoured so the Dutch decided to upgrade them with steel plates obtained from a local railway. It was found that rifle calibre bullets could still penetrate these plates so pilots took to tying a sand bag to the backs of their seats over the armour plate for extra protection and this is how the aircraft flew into action during the later parts of the campaign.

    Another example of brave men doing the best they can with obselete/obselescent equipment.
     
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  19. Chris C

    Chris C Canadian

    Well, this isn't much really, but I learned recently:

    - technical proposals for alterations to the Valentine tank produced in Canada went through the U.K.! Kew has records of Field Reports e.g. for "snow shoes" on tracks.
    - there were tests of an 8-pounder and a 12-pounder gun for the Valentine as alternatives to the 75 pounder at a late stage. (After the IX was in production.) I imagine in the end that they chose the 75mm to simplify ammunition.
     
  20. canuck

    canuck Closed Account

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    I had no idea.

    Thunder Bay's Canadian Car and Foundry produced Hurricanes, Helldivers and the North American Harvard Mk IV .

    Image - Curtiss SB2C Helldiver aircraft near completion at Canadian Car and Foundry in Fort William, Ontario (Now Thunder Bay). Prior to the American entry into the Second World War, the Curtiss Aircraft Co. increased production of SB2C Helldiver naval aircraft by licensing construction to two Canadian companies - Fairchild Aircraft and Canadian Car and Foundry. Though the first flight of the prototype did not happen until December of 1940, large-scale production had already been ordered on 29 November 1940. A large number of modifications were specified for the production model and the program suffered so many delays that the Grumman TBF Avenger entered service before the Helldiver, even though the Avenger had begun its development two years later. Nevertheless, production tempo accelerated with production at Columbus, Ohio and two Canadian factories: Fairchild Aircraft Ltd. (Canada) which produced a total of 300 (under the designations XSBF-l, SBF-l, SBF-3 and SBF-4E) and Canadian Car and Foundry which built 894 (designated SBW-l, SBW-3, SBW-4, SBW-4E and SBW-5), these models being respectively equivalent to their Curtiss-built counterparts. A total of 7,140 SB2Cs were produced in World War II.( SourcE: Archives of Ontario)
     
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