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The age of the battleship is over. And yet, history is filled with countless examples of how they lived, fought, and died. The TBF...
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The age of the battleship is over. And yet, history is filled with countless examples of how they lived, fought, and died. The TBF...
Nakajima B5N, Explained – Last year, I wrote a three-part series for 19FortyFive commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Midway. One of...
The Swordfish Biplane Helped Sink Germany’s Most Advanced Battleship Here we present a short history: During the Second World War, the British Royal Navy’s...
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 multi-turret land battleship proved to be a blind alley in tank development—there was nothing one oversized and over-gunned tank could do that several,...
Pearl Harbor will never be forgotten. It created an ever-present analogy that reminded everyone what could happen when enemies are appeased or ignored, and...
The resulting conflict might just wall have resulted in even greater destruction and loss of life than the version of World War II recorded...
When one thinks of Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter planes of WWII, especially the ones that contributed to the defeat of Nazi Germany’s Luftwaffe...
The USS Illinois – A Missed Opportunity? – As the clouds of war appeared on the horizon in the late 1930s, the United States...
Hyūga almost became the last aircraft carrier to be sunk from enemy fire as well. However, just a day later, on July 29, the...