Little known facts about equipment...

[patrynius]

Hi
one more little know:
In Birma sometimes airplanes didn;t landed. Soldier with had to be taken on the open field. He was joined to some kind of gare which main part was horizontally line. Dakota flew (as slow as possible) over this man, with long line (and hook at the end), this hook catch horizontally fasten line and in this very moment soldier were rapidly taken from the ground. Dakota crew slowly drew him in.
But I don't know how this .. "equipment" was called
Best regards

p.s. somebody wrote here that PZL11 have 2*20mm cannons (and it was first fighters with cannons) that definettly not true - armament of PZL 11 was just 2 machine guns (2*7.7mm)
Regards

[Brandenburger]

The Aircraft Lippisch P.13a (DM-1) was the first aicraft that flight with

pulverised coal.

In Juli 1944 the first proto tpye of this very strange vehicle flight. It was a Delta Aircraft and the american Delta aircraft XV2Y-1, F-92, F-102 und F-106 was built from the plans of this vehicle.

[Imad]

General Urquhart of the 1st Airborne Division was the only general, at least on the Allied side, to have personally killed an enemy soldier in combat, and that was in Market Garden, as you probably have guessed.
Imad

[Karl234]

The codename for the deploy of Barbarossa was "Aufbau-Ost". The name for the projekt to build up the former DDR in 1991 is "Aufbau-Ost".

The projekt name of the V2 rocket was A4. Audi is building a very common car called A4, and the Audi slogan is: "Advantage because of technic."

[Brandenburger]

Two Nebelwerfer Regiments with Kaliber 28 cm and 32 cm mixed with 500 tubes fired 350 Rockets per secound in a attack

The Grenades of the Gamma Mörser in caliber 42,7 cm have a weight of 950 kilogramm. 235 Artillery Soldiers werde used to man this Mörser.

The Mörser Karl and Thor has a caliber of 61,5 cm and their grenades weight 2200 Kilogramm.

The cannon Dora (also called schwerer Gustav) has a caliber of 80 cm and sixty railtraincars were used to move it. From it 32,5 m long tube were shot grenades with 5000 kg. Special grenades weight 7000 kg. The grenade and the kartusche were 7,8 m long. In one hour this monster can fire 3 shots. 4120 soliders were necessary to man this gun.

[Imad]

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto fought at Tsushima as a young naval cadet.

[Ares]

The cannon Dora (also called schwerer Gustav) has a caliber of 80 cm and sixty railtraincars were used to move it. From it 32,5 m long tube were shot grenades with 5000 kg. Special grenades weight 7000 kg. The grenade and the kartusche were 7,8 m long. In one hour this monster can fire 3 shots. 4120 soliders were necessary to man this gun.

A few mistakes I'm afraid...

http://www.aopt91.dsl.pipex.com/railgun ... 0index.htm

[StigRoadie]

The greatest myth of all.

Hitler was a great man.

[Kim Sung]

The legend of our age... 20,000~40,000 soldiers and civilians resisted in such a narrow place for more than 5 month without any external assistance and met their heroic deaths without any survivor. The largest in its scale and the most heroic last stand in the human history...

http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... 88&start=0

[Panzerfaust60]

Hitler's bloodline has been traced back to Jewish heriatage as well as Himmler's and Goebbels'.

This is just as saying he was gay and therfor killed, makes no sence really

Hurricanes and Spitifires could catch up with the V-1 rockets and a number of them were shot down.

The hurricanes could for sure not catch up with a V-1, perhaps the Spitfires could

The American Pershing tank had such weak back armor that German 20mm shells were able to penetrate and knock out the tank.

Only one was knocked out, by a Nashorn (88mm pak 43)

Jon

[faf_476]

Fact about, that the Japanese soldiers during Death March doesn't have enough bullets, to kill a POW running away.
(Or they don't really have bullets at that time).