We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/how_depressing.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:05:45 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification ...to be a German soldier in late 1944/early 1945, with broad experience in the West and East to find yourself on the Eastern Front facing these. US-built White M3 Scout Cars (Armorer want!), with a US-made M2 .50 cal machine gun and a M1919A1 Browning .30 cal machine gun... and realize that your enemy on the Western Front has *so* much materiel and industrial capacity that he's giving huge numbers of vehicles and small arms to the guys on the Eastern Front. Then you duck because you're getting strafed by P47s and P39s and P40s with the Avirex (Red Star)... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/how_depressing.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/how_depressing.html Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:25:28 -0600 Grad in the Red Army Drivers' Ed course. Hail, hail, the gang's all here... Heh. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/how_depressing.html#comment-55187 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/how_depressing.html#comment-55187 Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:11:07 -0600 THis is the prototype of the Humvee at the alpha stage. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/how_depressing.html#comment-55168 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/how_depressing.html#comment-55168 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:50:57 -0600 I'm reading a book about the Battle of Kursk, and the authors mention that even decades after the war you could get old Russian soldiers nostalgic about the Studebakers and "Willies". They weren't as impressed with the M3 light tank, but, then, nobody was. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/how_depressing.html#comment-55153 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/how_depressing.html#comment-55153 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:46:26 -0600 i feel a Persian Corridor train shipment of Lend Lease goodies whatziss coming on... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/how_depressing.html#comment-55148 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/how_depressing.html#comment-55148 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:35:04 -0600