Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
As part of our work at 19FortyFive, we regularly visit military facilities and museums to document aircraft that helped shape modern warfare. In July...
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As part of our work at 19FortyFive, we regularly visit military facilities and museums to document aircraft that helped shape modern warfare. In July...
The American-made P-40E Warhawk, aka Kittyhawk (not to be confused with the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk [CV-63]) is one of the...
Chester Nimitz took command of the Pacific Fleet weeks after Pearl Harbor — when American naval power was at its lowest point in history....
General and President Dwight Eisenhower commanded the largest invasion in human history and watched thousands of men die on the beaches he sent them...
The Yamato-Class Battleships Were Completely Destroyed During WWII: The Musashi was one of four planned Yamato-class battleships for the Imperial Navy of Japan. The...
The Yamato-class were battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The Yamato and Musashi, whose hulls were laid down in November 1937 and April 1938,...
In the early morning hours of May 2, 1964, two Viet Cong frogmen emerged from a sewer tunnel in the port of Saigon carrying...
The P-47 Was Called the ‘Flying Bathtub’ and Weighed 10,000 Pounds Empty — It Still Shot Down 20 of Hitler’s Messerschmitt 262 Jets This...
General George Patton Built the American Tank Corps in WWI and Wrote the Doctrine for Massed Armor — Then Led the First U.S. Tank...
One Engine Change Helped Wpn World War II — The Rolls-Royce Merlin Turned a Mediocre P-51 Mustang Into a 440 MPH Bomber Escort That...