Savoia-Marchetti SM.79

Aircraft Italy 7 Min Read

Even if SM.79s were considered overall to be quite sturdy and well-developed aircraft, they had their share of misfortune. In Spain, SM.79 MM.28-16 (with a total crew of 17) was destroyed in the air on 12 April 1938, when one of its bombs detonated in the bomb bay. MM.28-25 (again with a crew of 17) was lost when another SM.79…

MONMOUTH’S REBELLION AND THE BLOODY ASSIZES

British History 8 Min Read

James Scott, Duke of Monmouth. Battle of Sedgemoor (c) Manchester City Galleries; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation PRINCIPAL COMBATANTS: England vs. the duke of Monmouth PRINCIPAL THEATER(S): Somersetshire, England MAJOR ISSUES AND OBJECTIVES: Monmouth sought to succeed Charles II to the throne. OUTCOME: The rebellion was crushed, Monmouth beheaded, and the other rebels punished. APPROXIMATE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF MEN…

Avro Lancaster Part II

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The Battle of Narva, 1944 Part II

August 19, 1944, Narva-Riga, note the beginning of the disengagement from the Narva Riverlines, the small sectors now covered by…

357th fighter Group – ‘The Yoxford Boys’.

The 357th Fighter Group was an air combat unit of the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World…

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Prague 1945

Until the end of April Bohemia, Moravia, and the Sudetenland lay quietly, like an enchanted island, amid the tempests all around. In March of 1939 the Czech provinces of Bohemia and Moravia had been made into a “Protectorate” under German domination. Future generations will perhaps see nothing unusual in the…

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1942- One Last Opportunity: The German Experience with Indigenous Security Forces

Bronislav Kaminski, leader of the RONA. by Major Bob E. Willis Jr. U.S. Army   The German Army had one last opportunity in 1942 to recover from its failure to secure the occupied areas and pre-empt the massive expansion of the partisan war to an uncontrollable scale. A number of…

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Lost and Forgotten United States Navy Heroes

About sixteen miles to the east, Wilkes had seen a beautiful islet that he judged to be far enough from Malolo that they might bury (Lieutenant) Underwood and (Midshipman) Henry “… with out exhumation …it was a lovely spot”. Wilkes wrote “In a shade so dense that scarce a ray of…

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86th Communication Wing, Regular Passenger Service for Peace Conference

86th Communication Wing An aerial mail and passenger service was instituted in the latter part of 1918 for the purpose of providing a rapid means of communication between London and Paris for the convenience of members of the Government and of the headquarters staff of the Air Ministry. This service…

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AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT IN BRITTANY, 1758

British coastal assault on St Cast in Brittany in September 1758. A German map, published…

German Schnellboot (S-boat)

Schnellboot S-80 torpedo boat Camo Operations with the Kriegsmarine S-boats were often used to patrol…

Lend-Lease to the USSR

American Lend-Lease supplies to the USSR 1941–45. Soviet historiography is mocked in the West, where…

Dogs of the Conquistadors

The Spaniards began using dogs at least by the 1260s, as King Jaume I of…