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By Valeria Korchagina and Andrei Zolotov Jr. Staff Writer MOSCOW – Mention the name Vlasov to an ordinary Russian and one word will pop into mind: traitor. Ask whether history should smile down on Lieutenant General Andrei Vlasov, the Soviet commander who defected to the Germans in World War II, and the ground would be laid for hours of heated…
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In an engraving by Amos Doolittle, British Major John Pitcairn and Col. Francis Smith survey Concord from a hill in…
The Dardanelles defences in February/March 1915, showing minefields, anti-submarine nets and major gun batteries. The bombardment of the Turkish Forts…
Development of carrier fighters for the French Navy followed a very distinctive course. The first type embarked on the Béarn…
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…
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Cockpit check-thumbs up-switches on-press the starter button. A few turns of the two-bladed airscrew, blue-grey smoke puffs from the exhausts…
Air Force F-16A Fighting Falcon, F-15C Eagle, and F-15E Strike Eagle fighter aircraft fly over burning oil field sites in…
Engraving of the galley of the Adelantado of Castile, Royal Palace (Palacio Real), Madrid. A gentle breeze was blowing as…
The three specially-modified UMA were deployed to Vietnam under Operation UNITED EFFORT. Overheating caused all three of the SIGINT packages…
The Raid, Blueboy Element is the first in a series of original art by Michael Nikiporenko. In this painting, a USAF/Sikorsky HH-3E Jolly Green Giant helicopter, 65-12785, from 37th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron, call sign BANANA 01, has intentionally crash-landed inside the prison compound at 0219 to insert the…
October 732 Forces Engaged Franks: Unknown. Commander: Charles Martel. Moslems: Approximately 20,000-80,000. Commander: Abd er-Rahman. Importance Moslem defeat ended the Moslem’s threat to western Europe, and Frankish victory established the Franks as the dominant population in western Europe, establishing the dynasty that led to Charlemagne. Historical Setting During 717–718, Moslem…
Diocletian (Diocletianus, Gaius Aurelius Valerius) Map of the Roman Empire under the tetrarchy, showing the dioceses and the four tetrarchs’ zones of influence. The long-suffering people of the third-century Roman Empire had the distinct misfortune to live in interesting times. For three centuries before Constantine’s birth, Roman architects, engineers, and…
RAF Boeing Chinook HC.2s were the mainstay of the UK mission to Sierra Leone. Securing Lungi airport was the first object of the 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment. Freetown and Lungi area (US Defense Mapping Agency) At 10 am on 5th May, the decision was made to send the Operational…
Battlescruiser Strasbourg under fire. July 3, 1940: Provence (foreground) seen settling by the stern, Strasbourg (center) and Bretagne seen burning in the background during the Battle of Mers-el-Kébir. Somerville’s fast ships withdrew to the west, to concentrate Force `H’ once again. At the beginning of the day he had instructed…
“He was bold in front of the enemy, and only feared God,” it was said of August von Mackensen, the Kaiser’s favorite soldier and the House of Hohenzollern’s last appointed general field marshal (GFM). So asserted the official 1938 work Prussian-German Field Marshals & Grand Admirals, published postwar in Berlin.…
Hitler had already summoned the leaders of Hungary, Romania and Slovakia to meetings to pull them into line, and Bluecher demanded that President Ryti, re-elected on 15 February 1943, make the same journey, but Ryti refused. Germany showed its displeasure by temporarily recalling Bluecher, then, from the beginning of June,…
The Fortress of Magdala, prior to its destruction in April 1868. The land itself now began to fight for the Emperor. The route ahead was slashed by deep gorges and high ridges. Nevertheless Napier was confident he would reach Magdala by the end of the month. His intelligence reports told…
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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