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    Re: What if D day had failed

    Indeed, as you say it is very difficult to see D-Day fail.

    The only thing that could really have stopped D-Day was an unpredicted turn in weather conditions. Even then, it would have to be truly...
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    Re: What if D day had failed

    I think there would be two quite dramatic early consequences.

    First, the upsurge in résistant activity (plus SOE/OSS) leads to greater exposure. A post-invasion failure crackdown would severely...
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    Re: Identify that Tank/Ship/Plane/Artillery etc

    Done
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    Re: Using tank guns as artillery - Korean War

    It happened fairly frequently. I've seen shots of the British using M10s for indirect fire in WW2, and I'm pretty sure the majority of the ammunition used by the US tank destroyer battalions was in...
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    Re: Life Guards, What did they do?

    The Guards units (and occasionally others) are certainly good at doing whatever seems dashing and putting on a show for the tourists, but they are all front line soldiers and the Guards units rotated...
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    Re: Identify that Tank/Ship/Plane/Artillery etc

    Correct JP :) Not a lot written about it, but apparently an effective - but extremely fragile - system.

    Can someone rep JP please!
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    Re: Identify that Tank/Ship/Plane/Artillery etc

    As in, exceptionally close ;) Entirely on the right track and it might even be the mount you describe.

    I've been a little mean, so a clue. That is an Australian ship, but it is not an Australian...
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    Re: Identify that Tank/Ship/Plane/Artillery etc

    Close, very close, but it is not American!
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    Re: Identify that Tank/Ship/Plane/Artillery etc

    Just need a UK supplier now!


    What is this weapon system?

    http://i63.tinypic.com/70kxp1.jpg
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    Re: Identify that Tank/Ship/Plane/Artillery etc

    Sd Kfz 247. The Krupp or 'A' version, as it is 6x4, the 'B' version was a Daimler Benz vehicle built on a 4x4 chassis.

    Essentially an armoured truck to act as a command vehicle in motorcycle...
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    Re: Identify that Tank/Ship/Plane/Artillery etc

    Correct! Well done. I figured the odd muzzle of the Molins might confuse things!
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    Re: Identify that Tank/Ship/Plane/Artillery etc

    Getting there, my old friend :)
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    Re: Identify that Tank/Ship/Plane/Artillery etc

    Functional design, but not stylish ;)
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    Re: Identify that Tank/Ship/Plane/Artillery etc

    And now for something completely different

    http://i65.tinypic.com/11r7gyh.jpg
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    Re: Identify that Tank/Ship/Plane/Artillery etc

    KSP-76. A Soviet design from 1943 to develop a light self-propelled AT gun for airborne troops. The chassis could not take the stresses of the gun when firing, and the project was dropped.
  16. Re: Challenge: How could Japan have done better in WW2?

    (At least) two military events need to happen regardless of however the political/economic/strategic situation develops.

    1) The US fleet needs to be disabled.
    2) The resource (vitally, oil and...
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    Re: Hitler's rise to power: democratic or not?

    I don't think Ep1c questions the process, he is simply suggesting that a proportion of that 11.7m were compelled to vote for the Nazis through fear, intimidation, and propaganda/violence inspired...
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    Re: Identify that Tank/Ship/Plane/Artillery etc

    Correct :)
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    Re: Identify that Tank/Ship/Plane/Artillery etc

    Afraid not, it is postwar.
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    Re: Identify that Tank/Ship/Plane/Artillery etc

    It does look a little like that, Spear!

    Not quite, sort of along the right lines though.

    A clue: This is not a common mounting for this weapon system.
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    Re: Identify that Tank/Ship/Plane/Artillery etc

    No, not quite that easy.
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    Re: Identify that Tank/Ship/Plane/Artillery etc

    Probably far easier than appears.

    Purposefully chose a poor quality image *evil laugh*

    http://i68.tinypic.com/1zn7kw5.jpg
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    Re: Identify that Tank/Ship/Plane/Artillery etc

    Munitionsschlepper Pz I ausf A.

    That one took a beating it seems.
  24. Re: Why did Churchill lead Britain into war with Nazism and Fascism?

    It's up to you to prove he did not, actually. However, sadly, (and genunely so, as it would put a stop to this), the order was either verbal or evidence of it destroyed. But it is more likely than...
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    Re: Identify that Tank/Ship/Plane/Artillery etc

    Good work JP :)

    Can't rep :(
  26. Re: Could the American Revolution have happened earlier? When, why - and who would have won?

    Would I be right in saying that local support for the rebellion at its launch barely equalled a third of the population, with a third being loyalist and the rest indifferent? I accept I may well be...
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    Re: Identify that Tank/Ship/Plane/Artillery etc

    Afraid not, this isn't a capital ship.
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    Re: Identify that Tank/Ship/Plane/Artillery etc

    Getting there with Aoba, not quite though, wrong class. This ship served in nine naval engagements.
  29. Re: Why did Churchill lead Britain into war with Nazism and Fascism?

    But he also sent troops to Greece and North Africa, and invaded Crete, so I think his holiday plans were accounted for.
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    Re: Identify that Tank/Ship/Plane/Artillery etc

    Wrong ship, right navy.
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    Re: What sort of general are you?

    Well, they learnt about protecting their bases the hard way (again) at Crete. :)
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    Re: What sort of general are you?

    While the port facilities were among the best, the entire defence of Singapore (and by that extension Malaya) relied on the Royal Navy getting there. The original plan called for air and ground units...
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    Re: What sort of general are you?

    Under-investment still counts as investment, so I guess you are right :P
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    Re: What sort of general are you?

    Malaya/Singapore 1942 - Token defence then give up, unless when I arrived there had been a decade of investment in facilities and defences, and theatre-experienced/relevant defenders and assets, like...
  35. Re: Why did Churchill lead Britain into war with Nazism and Fascism?

    He denied the Holocaust in two speeches in 1989, in Austria I believe (his conviction came in 2006), but his manoeuvrings before then were not subtle, he wished (and attempted) to united all neo-Nazi...
  36. Re: Why did Churchill lead Britain into war with Nazism and Fascism?

    I was going to say, Irving is a strange choice.
  37. Re: Why did Churchill lead Britain into war with Nazism and Fascism?

    In fairness, the percentages agreement means very little. It is hardly legally binding, and without the American POV it was never going to be ratified.
  38. Re: Did Germany really have a chance of winning WWI

    Presumably the French would have built the Maginot Line about 20 years earlier.

    We know from Verdun that and numerous other battles that such defences are not impenetrable, but if the French...
  39. Re: Why did Churchill lead Britain into war with Nazism and Fascism?

    Unlikely, Hong Kong and particularly Singapore suffered from over a decade of strategic mismanagement and defence investment. The British understood that the loss of Singapore was possible, and had...
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    Re: Identify that Tank/Ship/Plane/Artillery etc

    http://i63.tinypic.com/14nic5v.jpg

    Exact ship please!

    Clue: She sank a not insignificant number of warships.
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