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For most of the 20th Century following the end of the Second World War, military historians affirmed that the American nuclear program was far in advance of similar research undertaken anywhere else in the world, particularly by German scientists, who never came close to developing, let alone deploying an atomic weapon of their own. But the continuing release of hitherto…
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There was a large drawdown of aircraft numbers with the aviation element of the US army following the conclusion of…
German commanders kept them back as a reserve to counterattack against Soviet breakthroughs, and only committed the Tigers once the…
The army of Jerusalem customarily carried the True Cross into battle, and both sides saw the moment of its capture…
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439th glider taking off for Bastogne resupply 27 December 1944. The heroic efforts of American forces in action at Bastogne…
(September 3, 1724–November 10, 1808) English General; Colonial Governor The earnest, efficient Carleton was among Britain’s ablest military leaders during…
(1868-69) Japanese ironclad Kōtetsu. Stonewall-Class (French Ironclads, 1864) A class of two ironclad rams built in France for the Confederate…
The last moments of the French battleship Bouvet which struck a mine in the Dardanelles on March 18, 1915, capsized…
The Fw190 was one of the most famous fighter aircraft of the German Luftwaffe. The A-8 version was produced in greater numbers than any other. The A-8/R11 version was also used as a night fighter. A new model with different equipment. Most important were parts of the MW 50 injection…
Army Group South Ukraine, 19 August-26 September 1944 The summer offensive against Army Groups Center and North Ukraine drove an enormous blunt wedge into the center of the Eastern Front. The flanks, reaching out to the Arctic Ocean and the Black Sea, still held up, but they were stretched taut…
Within three years the royal marriage of King Fulk and Queen Melisende was in serious trouble and the kingdom of Jerusalem on the verge of its gravest political crisis to date. Two of the most influential men in the land, Count Hugh of Jaffa and Roman of Le Puy, lord…
G-11s, along with the Antonov A-7 constituted a majority of Soviet transport gliders. They were mainly used from mid-1942 for supplying Soviet partisans with provisions, weapons, equipment and trained men, towed mainly by SB or DB-3 bombers. Most intensive use was from March to November 1943 in Belarus, in the…
Designed as ocean-going escorts with a range of 12970 km (8,060 miles), the ‘Rivers’ were at first fitted with almost totally superfluous minesweeping gear. Once this was eliminated from the design, oil storage rose from 440 tons to 646 tons, with a consequent improvement in endurance. As in the case…
The commercial trade between the Ohio American Indians and French or British agents and traders during the 18th century was of a different nature to previous trading. It degenerated into competition for Indian alliances by means of gifts. War gifts of cutlasses, scalping knives, hatchets, guns, powder, and bullet molds…
It was on this day in 1866 that the naval battle of Lissa was fought, during the Third Italian War of Independence, which was a stunning defeat for the Kingdom of Italy. In the end, the Prussian victory over Austria eventually brought Venice back into the Italian nation but no…
The 12th (Suffolk Regiment) at the Battle of Minden. 1st August 1759 by Brian Palmer. The Battle of Minden, 1st August 1759 by David Rowlands. Initially, in large part due to the political sensitivity of appearing to use British resources to assist the unpopular Electorate of Hanover, the British government…
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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