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The Cold War fought by proxy – Cuban T-34/85s on the streets of the Angolan provincial city of Huambo in 1975. The Cubans fought on the side of the Communist MPLA in the Angolan civil war, which broke out following the withdrawal of the Portuguese colonial authorities. Despite their age, the T-34/85s gave good and effective service. In Angola, three…
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Spitfires taking off from the USS Wasp on April 20, 1942, during Operation Calendar. On the morning of 9 May,…
Borgward B IV z Panzer-Abteilung 302. Panzerabteilung 302 (Fkl), was a radio-controlled tank battalion that had 24 StuG III assault…
Chinese fire-rafts as illustrated in the Wujing Zongyao, a military treatise written in 1044 during the Song Dynasty. This demonstrates…
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Dam Busting Raids Ruhr industry was dependent on hydroelectric power and water, supplied by several huge dams. The destruction of…
The Toluid Civil War was a war of succession fought between Kublai Khan and his younger brother, Ariq Böke, from…
Scots in Swedish Thirty Years’ War service. In October 1605, having embarked on his war with Poland in Livonia, Karl…
In December 1805, brigadier general Jean Rapp led a memorable attack at Austerlitz, when he charged at the head of…
(12th or 13th Century B. C. E.) Legendary Bronze Age conflict between Mycenaean Greeks and Troy. Despite the problems inherent in any attempt to employ the Homeric epics in a historical reconstruction of the Trojan War, the latest archaeological evidence from and around the site of Troy has led many…
Midnite Madness II, a P-61B of the 548th Night Fighter Squadron, U.S. 7th Air Force, based at Ie Shima in June 1945. The pilot was James W. Bradford, who, together with his crew, downed a G4M ‘Betty’ on 24 June 1945, one of five victories accredited to the squadron. Two…
HANS OTTO BEHRENDT CAPTAIN HANS-OTTO BEHRENDT Intelligence Officer on Rommel’s Staff One of my favourite Rommel stories is when in the port of Tripoli in February–March 1941, Rommel told my friend Lieutenant Hundt, an engineer, ‘Here you can build me a hundred and fifty tanks.’ The man looked stupefied and…
The date of the first B-29 raid on Japan – June 15, 1944 – has a double significance. This was also the day which marked the beginning of operations to take the island of Saipan in the Marianas chain. Its capture, together with Guam and Tinian, gave the B-29 a…
circa.1724 Jacopo de’ Barbari, 1500 The physical demands of maintaining ships and supplying their crews tended to generate substantial supporting bureaucracies and physical infrastructure, making institutions like the Venetian Arsenal or the Tudor Council for Marine Causes more convincingly bureaucratic than those administering most contemporary armies, and naval bases like…
“Enemy forces that have succeeded in landing must be destroyed or thrown into the sea by immediate counterattacks.” Führer Directive No. 40, March 23, 1942. Hitler’s directive of March 23, 1942, marked the official birth of the Atlantic Wall even though the actual work had started much earlier. Unfortunately, since…
SOUTH-EAST ASIAN EXPLORATION Ming Chinas brief flirtation with overseas expansion provides unequivocal evidence of the remarkable competence of Chinese shipwrights, navigators and sailors. Chinese mariners had long traded in the same waters without official sanction, but seafarers ranked low in the Confucian social hierarchy and received little attention from court…
During the Burgundian Wars (1474–1477) in France, Charles the Bold, the expansionist and ambitious Duke of Burgundy, who had already been defeated three times in battle, came to a sorry end. These wars were a struggle between the Dukes of Burgundy and the Kings of France. They showed that cavalry…
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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