What have you learned about WW2 recently?

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

  1. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    Jodl conviction overturned.

    Posthumous legal action[edit]
    On 28 February 1953, after his widow Luise sued to reclaim her pension and his estate, a West German denazification court declared the now-deceased Jodl not guilty of breaking international law, based on Henri Donnedieu de Vabres's 1949 disapproval of Jodl's conviction.[25][26]

    This not guilty declaration was revoked by the Minister of Political Liberation for Bavaria on 3 September 1953, following objections from the United States; the consequences of this acquittal on Jodl's estate were, however, maintained.[27]

    Alfred Jodl - Wikipedia
     
  2. 51highland

    51highland Very Senior Member

    Early cruise Missiles? Speaking to a gentleman at Landguard fort Felixstowe, he related a story from his Father about launching Incendiary Balloons from the Fort area designed to trail wires or carriy incendiary devices across the North sea to Germany and German occupied Europe to start fires or short out the Electrical cables. Operation Outward began in March 1942, the last Balloons being launched in 1944. I had never heard of this, but had heard about the Japanese balloons directed at USA. Nice video produced here.
     
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  3. Gerard

    Gerard Seelow/Prora

    I only recently read that Magda Goebbels son, Harald Quandt, became one of the richest men in Germany post war.
     
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  4. jetson

    jetson Junior Member

    Hedy Lamarr the screen actress and beauty was also a Scientist and with a partner worked on improving with some success US navy torpedoes.
     
  5. jetson

    jetson Junior Member

    Back in the National Service days in the fifties, many lads could not read and write or enumerate. Recruits thus handicapped were sent to Primary Education Centres to be taught. One such was a lad in our training platoon; he had infant school books with pictures to spell out the letters. One overlooked benefit of National Service was attaining the education basics.
     
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  6. OpanaPointer

    OpanaPointer Pearl Harbor Myth Buster

    My uncle joined the Army and got the education being part of a sharecropper's family denied him.
     
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  7. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

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    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

  9. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Old Hickory Recon

    The early production model of the Corsair had a small window on the underside of the fuselage, beneath the cockpit. The cockpit did not have a solid floor and the pilot could look down, between his feet and pedals, and see beneath the aircraft.
    A complaint by the pilots was that if they dropped something if fell several feet down and out of reach, then would be hard to retrieve even on the ground.
     
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  10. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    Early Wildcats had them too. Didn't know about the Corsair. That's a good distance between the cockpit and bottom of fuselage.
     
  11. Pat Atkins

    Pat Atkins Well-Known Member

    Didn’t the Stuka have something similar, as well? Should really Google this, I guess.

    Googled it: there was a “bombsight window in the cockpit floor” Junkers Ju 87 - Wikipedia
     
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  12. Wg Cdr Luddite

    Wg Cdr Luddite Well-Known Member

    Fairey Battle and all the preceeding Army co-op aircraft had it.
     
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  13. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    Canadian F/A-18s have a fake canopy on the bottom. :)

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    Seems like a great idea.
     
  14. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    On 6 January the Allies suffered their heaviest loss in the Pacific since Guadalcanal when kamikaze mauled the U.S. 7th Fleet as it began bombarding the invasion beaches at Luzon and minesweeping the Lingayen Gulf. Twenty-nine kamikaze hit 15 ships and Lumsden was killed by one while on the bridge of the battleship USS New Mexico, becoming the most senior British Army combat casualty of the Second World War

    Herbert Lumsden - Wikipedia
     
  15. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    That my Great Uncle was a person, rather than just a few lines of CWGC entry.
    Family photo album dumps. Telegrams. Newspapers. It's surprising what sometimes bubbles up.
     
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  16. chipm

    chipm Well-Known Member

    In My Own Defense :)....................... i have a DEEP Interest in WW2, but i am not any kind of expert. I have read very few books about the war. I mainly watch videos and read this forum.
    I never realized how many missions the P-47 flew, quite far into Germany, as a bomber escort.
    I know they and the 51 started using drop tanks,but even with that i did not know the 47 was used in such large numbers as a bomber escort after 1943.

    Anyway.
    I just watched a video called "Germany's Last Ace"
    It features Gunther Rall, who has always seemed like a decent man IMHO.
    But it also featured many Americans, especially Hub Zemke.
    I believe he spent most of the war in a P-47, but finished (until capture) in a P-51.
     
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  17. RAFCommands

    RAFCommands Senior Member

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  18. John(txic)

    John(txic) Junior Member

    Would I be correct in thinking that he, after crashing an F-86 in the Bundesluftwaffe, was heard to mumble "302..." when walking away from the crash site?
     
  19. Kormak

    Kormak New Member

    Really nice article, thanks!
     
  20. twinotterpilot

    twinotterpilot Active Member

    In researching the fate of the Mulberry Phoenixes, I have discovered that not only were a number used in the dyke repairs in the Netherlands, but a pair were also used in Sweden, at Hässelby.
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    In addition a further 6 were reused in the repair of the LeHavre facilities, with at least 4 being used for the Florida quay, now called the Pierre Callet quay.
    upload_2022-12-20_8-18-10.png
     
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