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North Korea has provided support in the civil wars in Ethiopia, Angola, Sri Lanka, and Yemen. Though the number of troops was small, North...
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North Korea has provided support in the civil wars in Ethiopia, Angola, Sri Lanka, and Yemen. Though the number of troops was small, North...
The four Iowa-class battleships that were built to bring victory in the Pacific in World War II truly brought out their big guns for...
The ferocity and efficiency of the North Korean offensive of June 1950 into South Korea took everyone, including the U.S. Navy, by surprise. Nevertheless,...
Still, the F-86 was a lynchpin of the U.S. Korean War effort – and a huge step forward in the development of jet fighter...
F-84 Thunderjet: A 10-Minute History – In 1944, Alexander Kartveli, designer of the legendary Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter, began working on a jet-powered successor. Kartveli’s tubby-looking...
In the extraordinary chaos of the early days of the North Korean invasion, even a battalion-sized force might have succeeded in seizing Pusan, which...
North Korea’s Special Forces, Explained: North Korea has a massive military. With 1.3 million soldiers serving on active duty, North Korea has one of the...
Of three-thousand F-84Gs built, Washington transferred over 200 each to Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Norway and even Communist Yugoslavia as part of the...
The 19FortyFive crew recently went to the National Air and Space Museum to film amazing aircraft footage of the SR-71, NASA Space Shuttle Discovery,...
F-80 Shooting Star: A Rising Star That Soon Fell – As noted in previous 19FortyFive articles on the Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe (“Swallow”) and...