John Finn: The First Person to Receive the Medal of Honor During World War II
For the United States, the first day of the Second World War came on December 7, 1941 with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. During…
Post-war Developments of the P-51D Mustang.
Arguably, one of the most successful fighters that emerged from WWII, was the North American P-51 Mustang. This advanced piston-engine fighter aircraft was built and…
Auschwitz Survivor Sees Herself on rare Footage Taken 75 Years Ago
Lily Ebert, aged 96, a survivor of the death camp at Auschwitz, has been astounded to see herself in rare film footage taken when former…
Ekranoplans: The Unreal Russian Jet Monster Of The Caspian Sea
Ekranoplans: Unreal Russian Jet Punk-like Wing-in-Ground Effect Flying Boats, with 8/10 Jet-engines, strange-looking relics of USSR’s weird Cold War military designs of the 1960s and…
Consolidated/Convair B-36 Peacemaker Derivatives, Vol.1.
The B-36 Peacemaker is the largest mass-produced piston-engine aircraft ever built with the longest wingspan of any combat aircraft ever built, at 230 ft (70.1…
The Follow-Up to ‘Band of Brothers’ is Coming
Apple has been growing their empire by moving into the entertainment world. Their latest move is opening their own production studio. The first project announced…
Entering the Flak Barrage
The German Flak (aka Ground Anti-Aircraft) guns were most effective weapons, with the legendary Flak 88 mm as the standard version (which was also a…
PBY Wreck Found in Irish lake
PBY Catalina: Most of the important relics and artifacts from World War II have long since been refurbished, restored and placed in history museums to…
C-47 The Plane & The Invention That Helped D-Day Happen
The largest fleet of flying Douglas DC-3/ C-47/ Dakotas ever seen since the 1950s is now steadily building up in Duxford, Cambridge, UK. In the…
Sorry to Inform You, But Not All C-47s Can Fly to Normandy
The Dakota Hunter tell us why…. We tried hard but the budget is too tight for the work still to be done, ha. Over the…
The Savior Of Ceylon: The Pilot who Stopped a Repeat of Pearl Harbor
He was transferred to a POW work camp that had been erected in a baseball stadium. The conditions in the camp were harsh and the…
An Albanian Adventure: A Cold War Treasure Trove of Dakotas & Mig’s
This bunker is a type of time capsule from the Cold War whose like you will rarely see anymore, it is a weird War-Art Museum…