Air Warfare

Soviet Guards Bomber Air Regiments of the Naval Air Forces I

Air Warfare Soviet 14 Min Read

In early July 1944 Soviet intelligence detected a large warship in the Finnish port of Kotka. It was erroneously identified as the coastal defence ship Vainamoinen, the largest warship in the Finnish Navy. In reality this vessel was the 6000-tonne German heavy anti-aircraft depot ship Niobe, formerly the Dutch coastal defence destroyer Gelderland, which was similar in appearance and displacement…

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Allied Countermeasures against the snorkel-equipped U-boat I

The Illustrated London News, 23 December 1944. Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D Roosevelt jointly announced to the public on 9 December that German U-boats were now equipped with a device that allowed them to remain submerged. Five days later First Lord of the Admiralty A V Alexander…

Air Warfare Aircraft 6 Min Read

Veracruz Naval Flights

USN aircraft flying over Veracruz with USN ships at anchor in the harbour. Crew about to go on an aerial flight over Veracruz. Lieutenant Bellinger’s aircraft being lowered into the water for an observation flight Lieutenant Commander Mustin went on deck to inspect the facilities required for such a mission.…

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WWII Mining the Danube

Wellington Bomber. Loading a Sea-Mine. Mining the Danube from 8th/9th April 1944 till October 1944 by the 205th RAF Bomber Group/15th US Airforce Army. After a brief spell in North Africa, by 1944 US 9th AF was based in Britain and later in liberated Western Europe, providing tactical support to…

Air Warfare British Italy Naval History 65 Min Read

Taranto 1940 Part I

Taranto, an ancient town of something like 150,000 inhabitants, had so far been troubled less by war than by foul weather. During the first days of November heavy storms had damaged or destroyed many of its protective ring of balloons and it had not been possible to repair or replace…

Air Warfare British Italy Naval History 21 Min Read

Taranto 1940 Part II

DEBITS AND CREDITS Mr Churchill, in accordance with his nature, expressed a view rather more generous than that of the Admiral. On the day after the Stringbags, less two, had returned to the nest he stood up in Parliament and spoke with feeling. The Prime Minister deserved his opportunity after…

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15th Bomb Squadron (Light)

Nixon Galloway Captain Charles Kegelman USAAF and an American crew piloted one of the twelve Bostons led by Squadron Leader J. S. Kennedy DFC that took part in a Circus (C-195) against the Hazebrouck marshalling yards on 29 June, the first time since 1918 that Americans had operated from England.…

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Flak towers: then and now

The construction of Flaktürme (Flak towers) in major cities began in response to the first…

American Medium Bombers of WWII Part I

Douglas A-20 Havoc Douglas Aircraft developed the Model 7B twin-engine light attack bomber in the…

Spitfire XIVs versus Bf 109Ks

Final Encounter (Spitfire v Messerchmitt) by Michael Turner. Wing Commander J E Johnnie Johnson, Spitfire…

SOVIET FIGHTER ACES IN KOREA

Russian MiG-15 Aces in Korea, from left to right: Aleksandr P. Smorchkov (8 kills), Nikolai…