World War II
P-47 Fighter Pilot Ed Cottrell Passes Away at Age 103
Cottrell ended the war with sixty-five combat missions under his belt in his trusty P-47. As The…
Churchill on the Homefront
You might say that Churchill’s Citadel, by Katherine Carter, is a book about Chartwell, a house in…
Italy’s Macchi C.202 Folgore Was a Great WWII Plane.…
The Folgore’s lightweight construction (weighing around 5,500 pounds) and responsive handling earned…
Why the Soviet Union’s Yak-3 Fighter Was the Perfect…
This bird is an enduring symbol of Soviet resistance—and perseverance—during the darkest days of…
Britain’s Gloster Meteor Summed Up in 5 Words
Ultimately, the Meteor was not great and not terrible. It was a steady, reliable bird, and proved…
The Fairey Barracuda Bomber Was a Nazi Sailor’s Worst…
The Fairey Barracuda made history as the first English all-metal aircraft built for dive-bombing and…
The Squid Was a Deadly ASW Successor to the WWII…
The mechanical Squid proved to be particularly deadly to Nazi German Kriegsmarine U-boats and their…
McDonnell XP-67 “Moonbat”: The Plane That Didn’t Quite…
While the Moonbat never quite made it out of the prototype stage, the aircraft marked a promising…
The Ju 87 Stuka: Hitler’s Screaming Terror in the Skies…
The Stuka was as much a psychological warfare weapon as it was an actual weapon of war. Before…
Operation Barney: How WWII U.S. Navy Submarines Took…
Operation Barney was conceptualized by Vice Admiral Lockwood to avenge the loss of the USS Wahoo and…
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