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They're REAL, you know: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sameli/486472305/in/set-72157602148035394/ http://fiveprime.org/hivemind/Tags/walk,zombie

Preemptive action, as little Adolf was already exhibiting disturbing tendencies. Like, for instance, in this family album picture: http://s35.photobucket.com/albums/d165/mschartman/stuff/?action=view&current=eliminatedjuicemy5.jpg

Especially bombers were bought from German war booty stocks (no, they didn't just hand them out for nothing) they had captured during the Barbarossa advance. I have a reference book on Finnish bombers, but it's buried in a box somewhere and I'm too lazy to dig it out now, so see, e.g., http://www.sci.fi/~ambush/faf/fafincolor.html.

They did. It's not particularly brilliant IMHO. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388437/

Or Diva Muffin Zappa (daughter of Frank). Nobody ever commented on that at school, right?

Uh, what? That's completely ridiculous. So every time you're on holiday, swamped by work and not playing, or any other mundane reason, you have to jump through hoops to appease SES? No thanks. And indeed, what blackbellamy said.

Well, it seems that the author is wrong then, and quite badly too. I wonder how many other such gems the book contains I hadn't known before that RAF had such capability (H-P V/1500) in late 1918. Interesting!

I'm currently reading Michael Pearson's "The Sealed Train", which is about Lenin's journey from Switzerland to Russia in 1917 and the events that followed when he arrived there. Ran into a surprising statement: Huh? The only thing I can think of is Russians using Sikorsky's Ilya Muromets bombers, but a quick googling didn't result in any confirmation. Or did the Brits perhaps manage to reach Berlin with airships? Anyone with any information?

Since this turned into a kit identification thread, I believe that the "Soviet Ground-to-Air missile" in your Gatow pictures is a SA-2. "I have no idea what this is" looks somewhat like a P-80 but I'm not sure. The "Luftwaffe assault glider" is a DFS 230. The 109 looks like some F model, as it has one gun shooting through the engine and two mounted on the nose, but I could be wrong and wouldn't know exactly which F anyway. I'm sure someone here can tell exactly what it is. "Soviet bomber from the 50s", Il-28 I'd guess. I've some pics from my visit a few years ago buried somewhere that might have the plaques visible but I'm just too lazy to dig them out now...

Reminds me of the story of a Russian who travelled extensively in his life. He went to school in Tsaritsyn, worked in Stalingrad, and finally enjoyed his retirement days in Volgograd.

Sergei, look at this page (in Finnish) and the Suurmäki link for some details. "Neuvostoliiton ilmavoimien toiminnan vähetessä myös rintamilla käytettiin ilmatorjunta-aseita päätehtävänsä ohella tulitukitehtäviin jalkaväen tueksi. Kohteina olivat yleensä vihollisen tykki- ja konekivääripesäkkeet, joita tuhottiin rohkeasti suora-ammunnalla. "

Pretend being an Italian in Libya, December 1940. Given the task of assaulting British positions, located across a relatively open space, how would you deal with a Matilda II? Or a platoon of them? Playing the reverse setup, I was surprised how cheap they are -- with a 300 point setup you can afford a platoon of them, and a rifle platoon to boot: this is more than plenty to repel a much larger invading force with no (yes, zero) casualties.

Absolutely excellent! One tiny question... how are battle damaged buildings done in cmbb? Are they separate bmp files or are the clean ones splashed with programmatically generated gunk on the fly? Bullet marks and shrapnel gashes on the stone walls would be very cool! Maybe as a mod option if not possible otherwise?