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The Scharnhorst was far from the most heavily armed battleship deployed by the Kriegsmarine—but she arguably was its most successful. She and sistership Gneisenau...
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The Scharnhorst was far from the most heavily armed battleship deployed by the Kriegsmarine—but she arguably was its most successful. She and sistership Gneisenau...
The Imperial Japanese Navy wasn’t the first naval power to develop an aircraft carrier, but they were arguably the first true naval aviation pioneers....
What If Hitler Was Killed During World War I? Legend has it that on September 28, 1918, a wounded Private Adolf Hitler lay in the sights of...
There has been growing concern in recent years over the state of U.S. Arctic defenses. In fact, few Americans remember that Alaskan islands seized...
Why the US Navy passed on the Montana-class battleships. Today, no navy in the world operates the slow, lumbering battleships of earlier years. However,...
As my History Hit email subscription dutifully reminded me, yesterday (as this is written), 2 February, marked the 80th anniversary of the Battle of...
Did Hitler Have Anyway to Invade the US During World War II? A 5 Minute Answer – It is a common theme in science fiction...
While the big, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers of today surely capture the imagination, smaller flattops during World War II certainly held their own: While smaller and...
The Worst Tank Ever: Panzer VIII Maus – A shortlist of the worst tanks would most certainly include the Bob Semple tank, which was...
The H44 would have been a 144,000-ton monster battleship. And thankfully, it was never meant to be: Before the outbreak of the Second World War,...