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Specifications (Navy Type 97 Flying Boat Model 23 – Kawanishi H6K5) Allied Codename: Mavis (Transport versions were given the Allied codename “Tillie”) Type: (H6K1, H6K2, H6K4 & H6K5) Nine Seat Long Range Reconnaissance Bomber. (H6K2-L, H6K3 & H6K4-L) Eight Seat Long Range Troop & VIP Transport with room for up to 18 passengers. Accommodation/Crew: (H6K5) Pilot, Co-pilot, Bombardier, Navigator, Radio…
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Littry; one 4,7 cm Pak (t) Panzer- Kampfwagen 35 R (f) abandoned. This is a Czech anti-tank gun mounted on…
Civil war erupted in the area around Kyoto during the tenure of the eighth shogun, Ashikaga Yoshimasa (1436–90; r. 1449–76).…
The period covered, was a period of turmoil and change. The Greek palaces grew in economic wealth, and many of…
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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In most armies at the time of the Crimean War, there was a clear division between the officers and the…
Date Founded: October, 25, 1939 Date Disbanded: September, 11, 1944 Mission When Founded: Military special operations as detailed below. Mission…
SYW- France: French Foreign Infantry Regiments during the War of the Austrian Succession, 1740s, by Eugène Leliepvre. 1. Royal Ecossais…
‘I had been going ahead partly submerged, with about five feet of my periscope showing. Almost immediately I caught sight…
A Bristol Beaufighter releases its bombs toward the further of two German flak vessels attacked by aircraft of No. 201 Group, south of the island of Kalymnos in the Dodecanese. Inadequate air support helped doom the British campaign in the Dodecanese. Imperial War Museum photo. In late June 1943, raiders…
The Ki 45 was Japan’s first twin-engine fighter and its most successful night fighter. It also served capably in a variety of missions, including ground attack, antishipping, and kamikaze. The Kawasaki Ki-45 required more time to develop and place in service than almost every other Japanese warplane of World War…
On 6 January 1807, Breslau finally falls to Jérôme’s besieging army of Bavarians and Württembergers (now fighting as ‘IX Corps’). After thirty-one days the Prussian garrison under General von Thiele capitulates and marches into captivity. Heartened by this development, Napoleon orders sieges of Danzig, Graudenz, and Kolberg to commence. He…
British imperial and colonial forces had, by 1759, fulfilled most of the initial military objectives developed four years earlier; now they were to mount a direct attack on the heart of New France reminiscent of the failed attempts of 1690 and 1711, and the plans of 1746. A seaborne attack…
An incident in the rebellion of 1745, by David Morier PRINCIPAL COMBATANTS: Jacobites (supporters of the Young Pretender, Charles Edward Stuart, “Bonnie Prince Charlie”) vs. English government forces PRINCIPAL THEATER(S): Scottish Highlands and northern England DECLARATION: None MAJOR ISSUES AND OBJECTIVES: The Jacobites wanted to bring Charles Edward Stuart to…
The empire reached its largest medieval territorial extent under Basil II, who is considered by many to have been the greatest Byzantine emperor. While the view of Basil as a perfect sovereign who was wise in counsel and indomitable in war is largely a function of his effective propaganda, his…
Synopsis Pork Chop Hill is an American war film written by James R. Webb; produced by Sy Bartlett; directed by Lewis Milestone; and starring Gregory Peck, Rip Torn, and George Peppard. Based on the book by U.S. military historian Brigadier General S.L.A. Marshall, the film depicts the first Battle of…
Fedor von Bock was born in Kuestrin, Brandenburg province, on December 3, 1880, the son of Moritz von Bock, a distinguished Prussian general. He spent his childhood in the old fortress city of Kuestrin on the Oder River, quartered in buildings dating back to Frederick the Great. He spent hours…
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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