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IIRC the U864 went down with a load of mercury that is seeping into the sea. I think the Norwegian Gov was going to entomb it in concreter to prevent an ecological disaster. Other rare weapons Panzerfaust 150 and 250. Vampire night vision equipment SdKfz251/17 through 23 versions and...

Try this one for rare and unknown. Air to Air http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=1050 ATGM http://www.wehrmacht-history.com/luftwaffe/missiles/x7-rotkaeppchen-anti-tank-missile.htm

The Wustennotstaffeln operated the medical evac version which was actually the Fi156D-0 and D-1 versions. To my knowledge it only had the pilot and one litter casualty. The main change between the C version and the D was an upward hinged loading compartment on the sides of the fuselage aft of...

Isn't a whole lot about German WWII weapon systems that I haven't had come across my desk. I had a pretty impressive library until recently. I started cutting back on my storage and narrowed down much of my reference library. There are just so many different weapons systems that are...

That's the Fi256 but only 2 prototypes were built by the Puteaux France plant in 1943-44. It was an entirely new design with virtually no interchangeable parts in common with the Fi156. It could seat 4 including the pilot. The enlarged 4 person version was attempted before in the Fi156B...

Lol. Good one

BTW. Since nobody took the bait. Hitler didnt write Mein Kampf. Rudolph Hess did. Hitler dictated it to him while doing time in Landsberg prison.

I had a special course in college on Adolph Hitler and the Third Reich (name of course). We were required to read Mein Kampf for that class. What a whacko, so who wrote Mein Kampf anyway? The Ardennes Offensive was ill conceived. If anything it hastened the end of the war as it used up a...

Very well put.

Although I hate to say it, Hitler was probably ONE (emphasis added) of the best communicators in history. How else could someone convince a group of people to slaughter so many others. My next statement doesn't necessarily apply to this specific topic but in our recent time, never...

The Fieseler Storch was the last dogfight victim of the western front. Pilot Duanes Francies and his observer, Lieutenant William Martin, of the 5th US Army Division, spotted a Storch circling below them while looking for ground targets in their Piper Cub. Diving on the Storch, the two men...

Old WWII joke.

So the invading German Army can march in the shade.

Why are the roads in Belgium and France lined with trees?

Yep, more than likely since we know the one his pilot and doctor had got destroyed.

One of the very last German aircraft shot down was a Storch. It was downed by an American L4 or 5 pilot who downed it with his .45 cal M1911A1 pistol. The Rommel doctor story is from Born of the Desert (Malcomb James) and was also in Sterlings Desert Raiders and the Phantom Major. So I've...

Yep, nearly all German battlefield leaders flew in them at one point or another. As a side note, Rommels doctor and pilot went for a joy ride once. They landed for whatever reason (it was a joy ride). Just happened they landed in the middle of a patrol of the SAS and LRDG. They were promptly...

GenObst Robert Ritter von Greim was the passenger. He was being flown in, based on most reports, on orders from Hitler to be the new head of the Luftwaffe after Goring was fired for trying to telling Hitler that if he didn't hear from him by a certain time, he (Goring) was going to take over as...

The French actually kept the production line open after liberation. I haven't seen an actual photo of Eisenhower with the plane. The model looks nice but I just never saw it before.

61Sleepercab, Your talking about the Brodie Landing System. Launched normally from LSTs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9vAWEgw6cc