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Antelope Canyon, Arizona, United States
WELCOME TO PAGE 114 - TO BE DETERMINED PAGE !!!
Antarctica
This place is not really covered by ice everywhere.
Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Grand Canyon, Arizona, United States
Maldives
I'm going to grab something to eat and then I will be back with more fun stuff.
This summer me and my family have visited this!
And I have been here! Would recommend everyone
Classical
But the last time I've been in Venice, it was 30+ degrees temperature and 90+% humidity. We even couldn't sleep through the night...
That is cool, I've never made it to Germany.
I've been trying to plan out a good time to visit a friend in Serbia. I'll make sure to also plan to see this if you think it would be worth the trip.
I have visited all central Europe countries with some additions like northern Italy, southern Spain, but have never been in France, etc... I hope to visit as many countries as possible during my life
That sounds like tropical weather. I get plenty of that already.
You need to plan 1 day there. The time will fly by, but there is a lot to walk
As an old guy that has done quite a bit of traveling I can say that I never regretted doing so. Take the kids with you when you can. They remember those things later in life. My daughter who is close to 40 now still talks about the 1,000 mile open ocean sailing trips that we would take to other countries when she was in her teens.
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I saw it as it went by, but there was no GA.
I always travel with my family. Before I was married, I traveled with my parents, after marriage children happened, so we had 6 years of time break for travels, but since last year we now travel with all 3 children
Since I live in Lithuania, my grand trip is going to be by car around the Baltic see, but for that we need to grow up 
WW2 FACTS
There was a difference between Allied & German fighter aces
The Luftwaffe had an entirely different approach to their 'aces.' Not only were pilots expected to fly on operations longer without breaks, they also actively helped their leading shots get big scores with lesser mortals protecting them while the 'experten' did the shooting.
On the Eastern Front they came up against badly armed and trained Soviet aircraft and soon the leading pilots began amassing huge scores. Bibi Hartmann was the leading ace of all time with 352 'kills'. The leading Allied ace of the entire war was RAF ace, James 'Johnnie' Johnson with 38 kills.
WW2 FACTS
The missing Luftwaffe fighter plane
At the same time as Messerschmitt was developing the Bf109, rival firm Heinkel were also putting forward a new all-metal monoplane fighter, the He112. Early prototypes of each were pretty evenly matched in terms of speed and rate of climb and both the Me109E, as Messerschmitt’s fighter became, and the He112E had speeds of more than 350mph.
The latter could climb to 20,000 feet in 10 minutes. More importantly, it had a very sturdy inwardly-retracting undercarriage that made it easy to land for newly trained pilots, and a phenomenal range of some 715 miles, which was better even than the twin-engine Messerschmitt 110.
The He112 would have been the ideal partner to the Me109 – and its range was an advantage in the battle of Britain and elsewhere. However, while Willy Messerchmitt was a good party man and Göring had a special (and irrational) fondness for the Me110, Heinkel had a whiff of Jewish blood – so the Heinkel fighter was dropped.
WW2 FACTS
The American Parsons Jacket was designed with comfort in mind
The standard and most widely worn US Army field tunic of the war was the M41, better known as the Parsons Jacket. This was introduced in 1941 following trials by the US 5th Division in exercises in the Midwest and Alaska in the summer and autumn of 1940, and was given its name after Major-General Parsons, the divisional commander.
The design, however, was based on a pre-war civilian windcheater: the rapidly expanding US Army recognised that most of its recruits were conscripts and that comfort, durability and practicality were more important than slick military bearing. With a zip and button front, it was a simple, lightweight and warm short jacket that required little tailoring and wasted no material, and which was designed in consultation with Esquire magazine’s fashion desk.
WW2 FACTS
Germany’s motor transport was minimal
German wartime propaganda that the Third Reich had a highly mechanised and modern army is still widely believed, but actually, in 1939, Germany was one of the least automotive societies in the western world, despite the autobahns and Grand Prix victories of Mercedes.
On the outbreak of war, there were 47 people for every motor vehicle in Germany. In Britain, that figure was 14, in France it was eight, and in the USA it was four. This meant the German army was largely dependent on railways, horses and carts and the feet of its soldiers to get around; there were only 16 mechanised divisions in the army in May 1940.
More importantly, however, such comparatively low numbers of motor vehicles meant there were fewer factories, fewer workshops, fewer petrol pumps and fewer people who knew how to drive. In other words, it was a shortage that could not be easily rectified.
Now, let us look at some facts surrounding specific battles.
WAR - BATTLE OF BRITAIN MYTHS
The Luftwaffe commander Hermann Göring was incompetent
According to popular perception, the commander of the Luftwaffe, Hermann Göring (aka Goering), was a totally incompetent commander, whose unfortunate decisions placed the Luftwaffe in an unnecessarily difficult position. Certainly, he was a ruthless Nazi who eventually amassed a huge list of crimes against humanity. However, the widespread image of him as a thoroughly incompetent air force commander needs to be corrected.
At the beginning of WW2, the Luftwaffe, the most effective air force in the world, was, after all, Göring’s very personal creation. Admittedly, not everything about the Luftwaffe was a result to Göring’s accomplishments, but he had the ability to put the right man in the right place, and he was more open to new, revolutionary ideas than many of his younger subordinates.
WAR - BATTLE OF BRITAIN MYTHS
Hermann Göring ruined the German possibilities to win the battle by turning the attention against London
It is a fact that just when RAF Fighter Command was on the brink of destruction as a result of German air raids against its ground organisation, the Germans shifted focus and started to bomb London instead. This took place on 7 September 1940, and it gave the RAF a ‘breather’, which was used to repair the destroyed installations. When Fighter Command met the Luftwaffe in force again, on 15 September, the result was the decisive victory that compelled Hitler to cancel the planned invasion of Great Britain.
Hermann Göring has often received the blame for this change in tactic. But a study of first-hand sources show that no one was more staunchly opposed than him to shifting the air offensive towards London.