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Aaron Bank’s team parachuted into occupied France at the end of July. They were met at the drop site by a motley group of Frenchmen toting Sten submachine guns, which had been smuggled in previously by the British. After the Jedburghs provided a secret password to confirm their identity, the greeting party loaded them and their equipment bundle onto a…
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Barthelemy L Joseph Schérer. Portrait by J.Baptiste Paulin (1747-1804) A French Revolutionary general, tactician, and war minister, Schérer was victorious…
RAAF No.1 Squadron crew and their Lincoln. Crews had no difficulty in converting to the Lincoln because it was an…
A warrior Ostrogoth has just killed a Roman enemy on the Battle of the Catalaunian Fields. Behind you can see…
Weapons and Warfare has been updated with a save posts feature, accessibility options and a new store. While on a post page, you can now easily save a post to read later: New accessibility options…
Read more about the World War II match up between Spitfire XIVs versus Bf 109Ks here:
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The replica of the Galeon Andalucia visits the Philippines in celebration of the Dia del Galeon Festival, a commemoration of…
Theodor Sproesser and Erwin RommelMajor Sproesser was Rommel’s commanding officer in Italy during WWI. He received his Pour Le Merite…
The struggle at Lützen in 1632 had a decisive impact on the narrative of the Thirty Years War. The engagement…
In the autumn of 1845 Frémont came on his second exploring expedition to California. June, 1846-January, 1847 When the United…
The BMP-1 is a Soviet amphibious tracked infantry fighting vehicle. BMP stands for Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoty 1, meaning “infantry fighting vehicle”. The BMP-1 was the first mass-produced infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) of USSR. It was called the M-1967, BMP and BMP-76PB by NATO before its correct designation was known. The…
The Joshan was a Kaman Class (Combattante IIa) Missile/Gun Boat in service with the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy. Built in France in the 1970’s and delivered for service before the Iranian revolution, the Joshan served out of Bandar Abbas for several years and saw active service in the Iran-Iraq…
The German plans for Verdun appear to have entirely abandoned the idea of a breakthrough, Falkenhayn himself describing such a full-scale assault as a ‘doubtful operation … which is beyond our forces’ and which might lead to German forces being trapped in untenable salients that could be pounded from both…
Early in 1941, with fewer German day raids, even using fighter-bombers, RAF Fighter Command’s pilots were beginning to feel under-employed. There had been attempts during the winter to use Spitfires to augment the still limited number of radar-equipped Bristol Beaufighters as night fighters, but this had resulted in little success…
by Kuno Gross (Author), Michael Rolke (Author), András Zboray (Author), László Almásy (Author) László Almásy’s most daring Mission in the Desert War 15 May 1942: The day before, the operation had met nearby catastrophe and failure at the early beginning. Ladislaus Almásy had reconsidered the planning as a whole and…
Sturmgewehr 45 Sturmgewehr MP 44 STEYR STM 556 A hint at this new weapon had been given during World War I, when Vladimir Grigorevich Fyodorov, father of Russian automatic weapons, married the 6.5-mm (.26-inch) cartridge of the Japanese Arisaka rifle to an automatic rifle. In 1916 he unveiled his new…
Hamilton, John Alan; HMS ‘Renown’ in a North Sea Gale, April 1940; IWM (Imperial War Museums); http://www.artuk.org/artworks/hms-renown-in-a-north-sea-gale-april-1940-7627 Renown maintained her course for ten minutes and then altered course to 080° and increased speed to 15 knots and, soon after, to twenty knots. At 03.59 she hauled right round to 305°…
THE ORIFLAMME This French knight bears the Oriflamme, the sacred silk standard of France. The Oriflamme was traditionally dated to Charlemagne and only taken from St Denis Cathedral when facing heretics or rebels, the latter being the case in 1214. It was thought that when it was taken out in…
British coastal assault on St Cast in Brittany in September 1758. A German map, published…
Schnellboot S-80 torpedo boat Camo Operations with the Kriegsmarine S-boats were often used to patrol…
American Lend-Lease supplies to the USSR 1941–45. Soviet historiography is mocked in the West, where…
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