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The Royal Navy's T-class submarine HMS Thunderbolt has the dubious distinction of sinking twice with nearly all hands on board.
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The Royal Navy's T-class submarine HMS Thunderbolt has the dubious distinction of sinking twice with nearly all hands on board.
The Reds’ own tank-killing plane of the conflict, the “Shturmovik” single-engine bomber, had its own successes.
Exactly one month after the first of thousands of Nazi V-1 “Buzz Bomb” cruise missiles began raining terror and death on London, a Dakota...
As the historic location of Japan’s surrender in World War II, the USS Missouri battleship needs little introduction. That defining moment and the ship...
We at 19FortyFive recently shared with you the story of the late WWII-era Nakajima Kikka. The aircraft was Imperial Japan’s first jet fighter, and...
Two mock torpedo launches went smoothly. But upon the third firing command at 2:36 PM, a 24-foot-long Mark 15 torpedo lept from the Porter...
The British press has noted that the crew onboard the Chuan 68 is well known as illegal scavengers, and this has been seen as...
Nakajima B5N, Explained – Last year, I wrote a three-part series for 19FortyFive commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Midway. One of...
While most of Essex-class vessels were decommissioned in the 1970s, the last still in service, the USS Lexington, remained active as a training ship until 1991.
The resulting conflict might just wall have resulted in even greater destruction and loss of life than the version of World War II recorded...