Ghostbear, the question asked if D Day had failed, not if a second front was not opened, for that reason I would have to disagree with you, in the long run it would have ot made a lot of difference. It would have prolonged the war no doubt, and meant more casualties, probably on both sides. But by ...

Don't forget the D Day dodgers lads, fighting their way up through Italy and the Balkans, they would have kept the old bastard busy, some of the most battle hardened soldiers in the allied forces were involved in this punch-up.


Aye Owdun. :evil:

Unfortunatly Northern Italy has some horrible ...

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Just an example of one of the British units that [at least partially] was equiped with rifles

[quote="Tab"]When the British troops sacked Washington they were very well behaved.
They only burnt government buildings and did not interfere with the local population, unlike the American troops that had invaded Canada while we were busy with Napoleon. The British troops had behaved so well the ...

Spitz.
You mention the role of the Frontier Rifleman as being overblown.
Well I tend to disagree.They were excellent shots(they had to be).
Bayonets were nearly never used and mostly discarded as useless.
The Brown Bess was a terribly inaccurate weapon,69cal.slow to load.
It was known as the ...

So for your 5 bullet highness (Anglo-Saxon), Redhand is in reference to my Norther Irish Relatives. It is a very old symbol with a tale behind it.

I thought it was Red branch?

Hi anyone here interested in books about the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail? If so I just finished this novel, the first in a new series about a young man pressed into the Navy in 1793 as a common seaman. In the first book he is assigned to the Man Of War Duke William learns to become a sailor and ...

Hollywood has made some shameful excuses for Historical dramas, The Patriot comes to mind, Pearl Harbour was the worst excuse for a war movie I have ever seen. U 571 had the distinction of at least being a fairly good action flick, even if it was totally untrue and disrespected the British who ...

Hollywood has made some shameful excuses for Historical dramas, The Patriot comes to mind, Pearl Harbour was the worst excuse for a war movie I have ever seen. U 571 had the distinction of at least being a fairly good action flick, even if it was totally untrue and disrespected the British who ...

wholley wrote:Lew,
Mel Gibson is'nt a YANK(there you go again)He's from down under just pretending to be a YANK cause he can make more money here.Stop heaping us all together,or I'll be calling you all Limey's.
Get my drift?
Wholley.

It is my understanding that Mel ibson was in fact born in the NY State

wholley wrote:Lew,
Mel Gibson is'nt a YANK(there you go again)He's from down under just pretending to be a YANK cause he can make more money here.Stop heaping us all together,or I'll be calling you all Limey's.
Get my drift?
Wholley.

It is my understanding that Mel ibson was in fact born in the NY State

Whitey, it is my understanding that Rumsfeld has plans to cut back further on the overall size of the US military, disbanding some divisional units in favour of smaller special forces groups and new technological systems. It is also my understanding that a goodly portion of senior Pentagon leaders ...

Whitey, it is my understanding that Rumsfeld has plans to cut back further on the overall size of the US military, disbanding some divisional units in favour of smaller special forces groups and new technological systems. It is also my understanding that a goodly portion of senior Pentagon leaders ...

Let us not forget Osama Bin Hidin' or rather should I say the USA has forgotten him

Let us not forget Osama Bin Hidin' or rather should I say the USA has forgotten him