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That blew my mind in 2002 and still blows my mind even today. Strom, you old asshole. He must have been insanely drunk when he did that. Or completely high on whatever powerful drug was available in the 40's. There is no other rational explanation. Kind of Hitler awaking one day in 1938 and...

A very good point. And I confirm it from my readings. The massive waves of Stukas didn't destroyed that much infrastructures (the bunkers along the Meuse were small and scattered), they destructed morale of both 71eme and 55eme D.I reservists. Then again, it was the most massive aerial...

ouch. I agreed with @Rheinbund. The Entente really completed a kind of encirclement of Germany. Hello, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Spain and Greece. See all that wheat and coal ? you want it ? Fine. The price to pay is just "screw & starve Germany" and help us win the war. As we say in...

You know, when I first heard about the Citroen - Maserati bromance, I naively assumed that, since Citroen sought a V6, well, Maserati already had such an engine in their cars. How wrong. Maserati had a V8, not a V6, so they had to mutilate their engine. The next bizarre thing is that Citroen...

no problem with that. Ok, different POD. I suppose Chrysler Europe wouldn't go near bankrupcy by 1976, hence no need for Peugeot to step in. The French SIMCAs were the best of the lot, and aparently better than Peugeot / citroen / Renault of the time. So SIMCA would probably stuck as France...

You have a point. France got restrictive laws after 1945 that killed all the luxury car makers - Bugatti, Hotchkiss, Delahaye, Delage, later Facel Vega - all dead. This said, Italy, Great Britain and Germany all saved their luxury car brands bfeore and after 1973 and France was willing to get...

I mentionned them earlier. It would have been a good idea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farman_F.220 Two groups, GB I/15 and GB II/15. I found a page that detail French bombardement of Sedan, 1940. I was wrong: the Breguets were send. So were the Farmans, by night...

Spitfires were needed for home defence and were scarce even during BoB. Plus they helped in dunkirk; flying from their bases. Hurricanes were good enough for France and were engaged in large numbers. The heavy bombers were not as efficient as in 1942-45. Battles and Blenheim were send in large...

The RAF really did the best it could and send a maximum of aircraft squadrons to help France. By early June Reynauld and others were asking more and more, but the battle was lost so the RAF refusal was all too logical. Yet the defeatists promptly used it to scream "British betrayal !"

They missed Sedan and were used only in the second week of the Battle against the Dunkirk pocket in northern France. They operated with France very own Stuka, the Loire Nieuport LN-401 and 411. The results were absymals: they were butchered, just like the Breguet 693. Barely three missions, and...

Aewsome ships.

The Comanche was a F-35 with a rotor. and all the issues.

I stick to my gun: not only NSU (as you mentions) but also Maserati ventures were industrial suicide. http://boitierrouge.com/2015/07/07/maserati-khamsin-la-malediction-citroen/ Unbelievable: Citroen talked about a V6 / V8 with Volvo, just before the Swedish went to Peugeot and Renault to make...

My father first car was a Simca 1100 (before he become an Alfa Romeo driver). The Simca 1000 was an earlier variant, and there is a famous spoof song in French (hide the kids !) "Je te prendrai nue, dans la Simca 1000" (les chevaliers du fiel) The sheer absurdity of Peugeot strategy with Talbot...

The ultimate photo would be Roy Cohn kissing Hoover, at the height of McCarthysm.

Very interesting analyzis, thanks for sharing. Now I wonder if the AASF Blenheim and Battles could so a similar job (since they are the most numerous bombers immediately available on May 13).

They were in service by 10 May... in small numbers. Too much were still in their crates, on a dock near the Bearn aircraft transport carrier (sigh). The two squadrons of Martin 167F had been send to French Lebanon for Operation Pike (no kidding). There were DB-7s in service (a couple of...

It surely looked better that the F-18E/F

Ramscoop nailed it well. Germany was really serious about getting Hornets instead of EFA (not Typhoon yet !). Spain already has Hornets so their choice is obvious. Great Britain I don't know, probably Hornets, too, as everything else is too expensive. Super Hornet is coming fast, so a mixed...

Massive modernization like the AH-1Y or AH-1Z ?