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P-47N Thunderbolt Bubbletop of the 333rd Fighter Squadron, 318th Fighter Group Ie Shima. The first of the army air force fighter groups to arrive on Ie Shima was the 318th Fighter Group under Col. Lew Sanders. Having gained combat experience at Saipan, Tinian, Rota, Pagan, Truk and Iwo Jima, the pilots were ready for their new mission. The ground echelon…
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The ungainly Storch was one of the earliest STOL (short takeoff and landing) airplanes. It served in large numbers across…
LENNART TORSTENSSON AS SUPREME COMMANDER The brief review of Swedish operations in the Thirty Years War after the death of…
The Battle of Biscay, 28 December 1943. In the wake of the disaster at Narvik on 13 April 1940, the…
The entire goal of the American Revolution including the penning of the Declaration of Independence was to gain the colonists and the newly formed American nation legitimacy internationally. The Declaration of Independence was written to…
In the realm of modern warfare, where technology evolves at breakneck speed, traditional defense mechanisms are often rendered obsolete against emerging threats. Among these threats, unmanned aerial systems (UAS) have become increasingly prevalent, posing significant…
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…
Rarely mentioned in the same context as the Lancaster as a great aeroplane, the Halifax, through successive improvements to the…
While the point of decision for 1944 clearly lay in the west, the German high command was not of one…
Painting depicting the sinking of German destroyer Friedrich Eckoldt by HMS Sheffield at the Battle of Barents Sea. JW.51B, left…
The battle at the Alte Veste, 31 August to 4 September 1632 The Alte Veste Wallenstein had already won round…
The battle of the Bulge was the end of panzer operations in the West. Afterward it became, in Manteuffel’s words, “a corporal’s war—a multitude of piecemeal fights.” It was not much of an exaggeration. Operation North Wind was originally intended to support the Ardennes offensive. Launched into Alsace in January,…
16-Gun Sloop of War While has been six Rodneys, officially only four British warships have borne the name, the first ‘official’ being a ship of the line commissioned in 1810, here are the first three (3). Bearing in mind the Admiralty’s reluctance to recognise the cutter, it is strange the…
Dark Age weaponry is the subject of several books currently in print. The subject has benefited from the popularity of re-enactments, which suggest how the age might have drilled and deployed its armies even when the contemporary record is silent. Facsimile weapons have shed light not only on how Dark…
In an engraving by Amos Doolittle, British Major John Pitcairn and Col. Francis Smith survey Concord from a hill in the town cemetery. (December 28, 1722–June 18, 1775) Royal Marine Officer The gallant Pitcairn was a fearless marine who evinced great interest in the care and training of his men.…
This photograph showed two knocked-out PT-76 tanks in Lang Vei, taking by U.S. Air Force reconnaissance aircraft in 1968. The camp defenses weren’t designed to repel a tank assault. Lang Vei, situated on a small hill, had a dog-bone shaped perimeter. The camp, built under the ‘fighting camp’ concept, was…
In 1940 the Wehrmacht had been the masters of the battlefield, and by 1944 the lesson in mobile warfare had been taken to heart by the Allies’ From their beachhead in Normandy, the Allies swept through northern France in a massive drive to the Rhine and the heart of German…
The Nightjar was a British carrier based fighter aircraft of the early 1920s. It was a modification of the earlier Nieuport Nighthawk fighter produced by Gloster after the Nieuport & General Company, who designed the Nighthawk closed down. 22 were converted, serving with the British Royal Air Force from 1922…
Emperor Sigismund, aged approximately 65. Sigismund of Luxembourg (15 February 1368 in Nuremberg – 9 December 1437 in Znaim, Moravia) was Prince-elector of Brandenburg from 1378 until 1388 and from 1411 until 1415, King of Hungary and Croatia from 1387, King of Germany from 1411, King of Bohemia from 1419,…
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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