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Developed for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) in the 1930s, the Boeing B-17 was primarily employed during the Second World War as...
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Developed for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) in the 1930s, the Boeing B-17 was primarily employed during the Second World War as...
From the Pacific to the Persian Gulf, USS Wisconsin Was There – USS Wisconsin (BB-64) was the third Iowa-class battleship to be constructed during the Second World...
What You Didn’t Know About the Iowa-class Battleships – During the interwar era, the United States Navy put much emphasis on the construction of...
HMS Vanguard Was the Last Battleship – There remains some debate on what warship had the distinction of being the “first battleship.” The French...
Grumman F6F – The Best Combat Plane of World War II? Designed to replace the earlier F4F Wildcat and counter the Japanese Mitsubishi A6M...
USS Maryland was a historic World War II battleship that made some serious history: Laid down at Newport News Shipbuilding in April 1917, and commissioned...
Launched in September 1942, the United States Navy’s USS Lexington (CV/CAV/CVS/CVT/AVT-16) went on to have the longest career of any Essex- class aircraft carrier. She was laid down...
On the afternoon of April 6, 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato set sail from Tokuyama in the Yamaguchi Prefecture of Japan. In preparation for what was to...
A World War II Tragedy That History Seems to Forget: Soviet submarine S-13 may have been pelted by snow and hail in the chilly Baltic Sea on...
Did Japan Have a Chance? – Throughout the Second World War, pilots of all nations were known to make deliberate crashes after their aircraft...