Recent content by thaoes

Will we be seeing development of purpose built armoured cars/trucks, ahead of tank development, Seeing how effective the rather cobbled together examples built in france/belgium have been?

I would imagine, having actually built fighting tanks, and having crew feedback, the tanks are actually designed so that the crew don't have to move around as much. Radio within arms reach, machine gun reloads if not in the turret, certainly easy to pass to the loader/gunner, etc. and intercom...

I can't remember exactly which post it was but it was mentioned that Carden was paying attention to making the hatches for the crew bigger as they found them too small when tryingg to get out in an emergency.

I can't remember where I read/saw it but apparently one of the key reasons that the Japense soliders suffered logistically was the fact that the vast majority of their food ration was made up of white rice which is basically deviod of any useful nutrients/minerals that a active soldier would...

I think what a lot of people forget about even the earliest parts of WWI was that even if you did everything right, and events went your way, you could still have your attacking units mauled, and the attack stopped in its tracks because you can't possibly get enough reinforcments in to either...

Thats actually really helpful, because it lets you know what you would need to do in the event that an amphibious landing went competely kaput and you needed to get your men and as much material out of there as possible as fast as possible.

Perhaps he needs to essentially have a diplomatic officer assigned to him? The carrot to Gort's stick of 'I'm getting it done I don't need your approval'.

Well it was noted in the last post that the German Paratroopers had to stop and get their weapons out of separately dropped cannisters, so I see a push to make sure that a paratrooper can carry everything that they would need to fight for at least a day before getting reinforcements or resupply.

Hey, looting the enemy baggage train is a time honoured tradition! How else are those noble aristocratic gentlemen supposed to pay their horrendous debts off?

Ah fair enough. Not sure which one it would be the remit of, but how good where the German intelligence services actually at with photo interpretation? This is pretty early on in the war so both the Allies, and the Germans wouldn't have had as much practice, so would they even be able to pick...

Wasn't a lot of the German Intelligence aparatus at the time either not up to standard, riddled with inflitration by british agents, or dogmatically political? I know the Germans had problems with their agents being flipped by british intelligence, hell they gave a British double agent a iron...

Would the German High Command actually shake loose better AT weapons for a small formation in Libya though? Or would they assume thatt he British wouldn't have had time to manufacture enough new tanks to actually be a threat to the Afrika Korps? How do the German and British manufacturing times...

Dear God I would hate to have to get out of that in a hurry. Did they really put that little thought into how the crew would get out of a tank in an emergency?

I had my first Astra-Zeneca jab a few weeks ago, and it took me out with bad muscle and joint pain for a few days.

I thought that was supposed to be heresy at this point in the war when it came to fighting the germans on eurpean soil?