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Hurricane Fighters From WWII Unearthed In Ukrainian Forest
With Ukraine seemingly poised to receive the modern F-16 jets that it has long campaigned for sometime in the near future, a unique discovery in a forest in that country sheds light on a previous...
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Horror Of ‘Firestorm’ Introduced By Europe’s Deadliest Bombing Raid 80 Years Ago
Britain’s King Charles recently visited the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire, in eastern England, to pay tribute to the veterans of Bomber Command, who took the air...
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The Colossal Skypirate Was A Beast Of A Carrier Aircraft Design
The Douglas Aircraft Company’s World War II-era XTB2D-1 Skypirate torpedo bomber was a giant of a carrier-based aircraft. Measuring 46 feet long and 22 feet high, the aircraft’s wingspan was a truly...
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The Bizarre Backstory Of Croatia’s Yellow Submarine Nightclub
A submarine built at the height of World War II, which served under three different naval flags, recovered from an air attack that sunk it in its harbor, and then ended up as a floating restaurant in...
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The Nuclear Scientist And The Warplane That Became Britain’s Most Unlikely...
Matt Damon announces to the crowd, “We have an early Christmas present for you.” Kenneth Branagh takes over, holding court with an adoring audience. Playing General Leslie Groves, director of the...
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Giant WWII Airship Hangar Decimated By Raging Fire
A historic World War II-era airship hangar in California caught fire in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Despite attempts to extinguish the flames, firefighters have been forced to abandon their...
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The Extraordinary Tale Of USS Salmon’s Escape From Destruction
On October 30, 1944, during World War II, the submarine USS Salmon endured near-catastrophic levels of damage, and survived to tell the tale. The deformation of Salmon‘s hull, resulting in major...
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How Entombed U-boats Were Re-discovered Decades After WWII
In many areas of Europe, it’s hard to escape the visual reminders of World War II’s devastating impact. Numerous buildings, bunkers, and military installations that survived the war, both in Germany...
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Masters Of The Air’s Aerial Sequences Are Terrifying, Game Changing
This is not your standard review. It focuses on a type of action that Hollywood gets wrong far more than it gets right — aviation sequences, and especially those having to do with air combat. After...
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This Is What It Took To Defend A B-17 Bomber
With the first episodes of Masters Of The Air having received considerable praise for their air combat sequences especially, the story of the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) in World War II is very much...
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Battleship New Jersey Leaves Her Pier For First Time In Over 30 Years
The decommissioned Iowa class battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62), the most decorated battleship in U.S. naval history and the second-built of four of her kind, left its dock for the first time in over...
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The Work Of This Clandestine Army Unit That Used Guile To Fight The Nazis Is...
On March 21, 2024, World War II veterans Bernard Bluestein, 100, alongside Seymour Nussenbaum, 100, and John Christman, 99, attended a ceremony at the U.S. Capitol. There, the men were given the...
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