History

Japan Flew a Bizarre Fleet of American B-17s in WW2

American B-17s in WW2 In the spring of 1945, intelligence officers from the US Army Air Forces received several unexpected[…]

Boulton Paul Defiant The Boulton Paul Defiant aircraft was designed and built as a turret fighter, but since it didn’t[…]

Martin A-30 Baltimore During the opening months of 1943, the situation grew direr by the minute for the Germans in[…]

Hazel Hill is one of those bizarre tales from World War Two The story of Hazel Hill is one of[…]

No 133 Eagle Squadron RAF in September 1942 Every aviation disaster is caused by a series of minute mistakes and[…]

Deadliest to the Enemy Every military aviation enthusiast should know which British-operated aircraft of the Second World War were the[…]

Disguised WW2 Ship Pictured: Little did the Germans know what secret awaited them inside the ship… Operation Chariot has been[…]

Military History In early 1968, as the Vietnam War raged on, a MiG-17 fighter jet was shot down over the[…]

Operation Tidal Wave The city of Ploiești, Romania, was better known during World War 2 as Hitler’s gas station. The[…]

Battle for the Rock After the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, Japanese forces invaded the Philippines[…]

77 Days Without Sleep On January 21, 1968, after months of gathering thousands of troops and supplies at the border[…]

Hidden Side of World War II Seventy years after the end of the world’s deadliest war, some grey areas in[…]

B-52 Line As darkness settled in the North Vietnamese countryside on December 18, 1972, the first aircraft in a massive[…]

Operation Secret Squirrel A handful of elite airmen from the United States Air Force’s 596th Bomb Squadron were awoken by[…]

Battle of Castle Itter It was one of the strangest battles of WW2 in which a most unlikely team of[…]