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I am going out on a limb here in my use of an example. So if you want to blow it off, I completely understand I frequently play "Red Orchestra" & it's modification "Darkest Hour" Both are WW2 infantry & tank online battle simulations. "Red Orchestra" being Sovi...

The total of tanks destroyed at Viller Bocage, being 9 or 12 or 25 only tells you that we have a confirmation on the 5 to 1 overall of Tigers vs. Allied tanks. . 25 British tanks lost and at least 6 Tigers (see Schneider) might give you 4:1 but that means you ignore the Pz IV's lost. They knock it ...

If your talking about POW's here I think we can simplify by this. If you were a German POW in Russian... it was going to be Bad.. Even the Hungarians, and Romanina German sympathizers were treated very poorly. I spoke with a Hungarian POW, and he said the first thing the Russians took was their Spor...

I think that is truly a great question. I think the RN was very effective in the Med. They basically scared the living crap out of the Italians after Taranto, the Italians chain of command was something to be desired at best. Between Gibralter, Malta, and Alexandria the RN did a great job to pressur...

Excellent information on this forum...I do think the IOWA has clear advantages over Bismarck and really would not even be a good fight, Iowa would engage at range with use of her Radar, Bismarck would if possible try to escape. Hard to compare a mid 1930's design to a more modern 1940 design. In war...