Dec 13, 2020 · No ‘Western Front’ for four years essentially meant no high-scoring allied aces! The issue of German aces ‘scores’ remains, I see, as hotly debated as it was when my question of WW1 and WW2 aces was first bought to my attention (good grief was it really 1971?, that’s near forty years ago!)

Dec 13, 2020 · Why were western allied fighter aces scores so much lower in WW2 than WW1? Herein lies a older thread starter, which might generate discussion: As with most (but by no means all) questions I ask on this forum, I of course know the answer to this, I am after all the incomparable and utterly insufferable lodestar.

Sep 10, 2013 · For those interested in the subject, what is your favorite plane of WW1 ? For me it's the SPAD S.XIII, one of the most produced of the war and flown by famous aces such as René Fonck, Georges Guynemer or Francesco Baracca.

Dec 13, 2020 · Oh for Pete's sake, of course it wasn't in the realm of "realm of human performance than technical considerations." read what I said in Post # 32: I seem to have woken someone up :D Sorry about that. This holding campaign gradually consumed more and more of the German air-effort but it was in...

Mar 16, 2025 · Did any of the three parts of post WW1 Poland have disproportionate influence? As in, did the former German, Austrian or Russian parts have more wealth, population or control than the others? Did Poles from the different regions view each other differently? Or did the Poles largely work together harmoniously to counter non-Poles and other nations?

Renault FT17 tanks saw considerable use in WW2; over 500 by France in 1940 after Dunkirk, then by Germany in security patrols against partisans.

Nov 20, 2017 · French Army in 1914 4,000,000 (total mobilised in ww1 8,410,000) US Army in 1914 200,000 (total mobilised in ww1 4,355,000) Italian 1,251,000 Japan 800,000 Romaina 290,000 Serbia 200,000 Bulgaria 280,000 Greece 230,000 I would say the US was a better navy overall with its dreadnought being better designed and more recent (if my memory serves ...

Mar 14, 2025 · A lot of this comes out of the British and German responses to WW1. The British response to how to win WW1 was to basically successfully attrit the enemy through combined arms at all levels, in order to create conditions for a rupture; the German response to how to win WW1 was basically "win before the enemy establishes a continuous front".

Another quote from Galland about the Spitfire. "The best thing about the Spitfire Mk. XIV was that there were so few of them". - Adolph Galland, General der Jagdflieger. Aces of the Luftwaffe - Adolf Galland Galland was a notorious Spitfire killer with 53 kills in total...That must be the...

Feb 26, 2025 · Mustafa Kemal commanded forces in WW1 and was the c-in-c for the Turks after the war (who were fighting in Cilicia, Armenia, West Anatolia), even commanding the Greek front himself. Reactions: ottoman1299 , Offspring and Emil