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I can happily say I have had the honour. I met John at a time of great personal distress, while burying a good man. Not in John's own professional status, but as one honouring our fallen man. He is every bit the fine gentleman you suspect him of being. I am well pleased to have shaken his...

She also demonstrated one of the first German helicopters - inside a building! Cheers

Some pictures of V-1s, including one being tipped by a Spitfire. Cheers

My dad refused to talk much of it. He told me what a lovely aeroplane the Spitfire was to fly; he talked of North Africa, the food and the people; he talked of France. But never what he was doing there. He died in 2005. We knew he was dying in those last couple of weeks, and I asked him to...

Absolutely no offense was taken! So, no worries. I was merely providing illumination on some of the events which influenced my opinion. And it is just my opinion, I make no claim to expertise. Since WWII had ended a mere 15 years prior to my birth, it was still a very hot topic during my...

When I say Hitler was an incompetent military commander, I mean that many of his decisions were based on anger or whim rather than sound strategic purpose. A few of the many available examples- He insisted that the invasion of Poland start in 1939, when it was in fact planned for the summer of...

Also remember that the ridiculously punitive nature of the Treaty of Versailles virtually guaranteed WWII. Hitler happened to be a motivated and charismatic man with a plan, and showed up at just the right historical moment to make it all happen. His looniness wasn't really that evident at...

Likely as not, Rommel used more than one aircraft at different times. And a model is only as good as the quality of the builder's research, and the references he trusted. Cheers

Otto Skorzeny used a Storch to fly Mussolini out when he rescued him from Gran Sasso. That's a cool story. There was a red painted Storch operated out of Weston airfield in Ireland, which was used for some filming of the movie the Blue Max. My aunt was set director for that movie, so as a kid...