I read two different memoirs from Vietnam pilots. Mark Garrisons Guts N' Gunships in which the author flew Hueys in Vietnam, he wrote about the AA but I don't have recollection of him mentioning anything about Migs intercepting them. Then I read Jack Broughtons book, Going Downtown where he writes about flying F104 fighters in 'nam and having some close encounters with VC Migs which were located in the far north. So I got curious that was there any Mig/Huey action going on?

I know that during WW2 there were units from various nationalites that semed to be under RAF command: Free French, Dominion squadrons, Poles, Czechs etc.

But I'm a little confused as to how they fitted in to the command structure. As an example, I've seen squadrons with RAF numbering that were made up of Czechs but also references to the "Czech Air Force"

What I think I'm trying to ask is: were units of Australians/Poles/French under their own command structure or were they slotted into the RAF order of battle?

Hello everyone,

I was wondering what kind of troops were common in Venice or the rest of Italy during the time of the Thirty Years' War and what equipment (weapons, uniforms, possibly armor) they carried. I know that question probably requires a lot of explaination, but I'm very thankful about every piece of information or reliable source anyone can provide.

Since for example the French have the Mousquetaires de la garde, I have not heard of something compareable in Italy, a recogniceable fighting company from that time.

In case anyone is wondering, I'm asking mainly for reenactment purposes, but I guess it's still a question about history and so I hope it's fine to ask it here.

Thanks in advance!

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My dad told me that in the U.K. still when he was young they had a very complicated system of recalculating pounds into shillings, pence and guineas. Today I also learnt that in Lübeck in the Middle Ages they had a currency where the different amounts corresponded to each other as 1 Mark lübisch = 16 Schilling = 48 Witten = 192 Pfennige Why where they so complicated? It seems much more straightforward to have 1 pound = 100 pence or something similar.

Was the marriage of Phillip and The Queen really that awful early on? Was Queen Elizabeth II really that anti living at Buckingham (the word 'hate' is used)? Did queen Mary truly write a letter to queen Elizabeth II on the news of her fathers death? Are any of the letter read out accurate?

Someone told me that Saint Patrick never drove out snakes from Ireland, that there were no snakes there in the first place to be driven out.

Instead, he drove out metaphorical snakes meaning sinful things. Apparently a group of african twa pygmies travelled to Ireland, where when they couldn't be converted, Saint Patrick had them killed. Making him the saint who drove the snakes out of ireland.

Is this true? Seems like bullshit

I am sorry for putting up a rather trivial question (this is literally a shower thought), but I am wondering if any of his own writings or somewhere else mention this. I realize that the vast majority of what he was looking at was either not acceptable or very boring, but I'd like to know if there was a patent for something revolutionary, important or famous, idea of which was stamped with Einstein's approval.

My son is in kindergarten in Texas. Now more than ever, I know that he is going to grow up not being taught the full truth of history in school. What points should I make sure to teach him as he grows up?

Also are there any areas of areas of history that have benefited immensely from inter-practice cooperation?

As an extension question: What events led to the US and the UK being two of the closest allies in the world by the 20th century despite still being "cold" to each other during the American Civil War?

The specific claim, iirc, was that almost any famine not associated with a drought, and even many that are, are the result of a deliberate action by someone. It might have been in the book "The Great Big Book of Horrible Things" by Matthew White (apparently retitled "Atrocities" at some point), since it deals with a lot of famines. But's not a scholarly work (although it is based on reasonably solid scholarly practice and is fascinating reading), and the author was surely drawing on someone else's research there, assuming that's where I read the claim.

Thanks in advance!