A small cadre of mid-grade Pentagon officers — the “renegades,” some call them — are arguing for a light attack capability for the U.S. Air Force. Believing the United States will find itself fighting in Third World trouble spots for years to come, they want the Air Force to have its own squadrons of a …
TV producer Norman Lear, 93, best known for iconic American sitcoms All in the Family and The Jeffersons, talks about his service as an air force pilot during World War Two. I’m sure there are people who have no idea about your record during World War Two that you were you flew how many bombing missions …
TV Producer Norman Lear Reflects on WWII Service Read More »
Sometimes blue-eyed and almost always of an Asian appearance, these German Army soldiers became a myth wrapped in the occultist/esoteric legend of the “Nazi mysteries”… Paolo A. Dossena was born in 1968 and has always lived and worked between Southern Switzerland and Northern Italy. Here, he describes how the childhood discovery of a Turkistan Division shield …
Hitler’s Turkistani Soldiers – Challenging the Occultist Legends Read More »
Since it was first published in 1989, Men of the Battle of Britain has become a standard reference book for academics and researchers interested in the Battle of Britain. Copies are also owned by many with purely an armchair interest in the events of 1940. The book records the service details of the airmen who …
REVIEW: Men of the Battle of Britain by Kenneth G. Wynn Read More »
Cate Clark began her interest in the World War 2 formation, the 1st Australian Armoured Division after meeting local identity Don McDonagh. Don, almost an icon in the local community of Gunnedah (in north west New South Wales, Australia) was looking to pull together some research on the 1st Australian Armoured Division after realising that no-one in the local …
An Almost Forgotten Division – 1st Australian Armoured Division Read More »
The RPG-7 is pretty far from being a forgotten weapon, but I was not going to pass up an opportunity to take a closer look at a live one. This example is one of the few live and registered RPGs in the US, and it belongs to Movie Gun Services (if you saw Black Hawk …
‘Oder Front’ author A. Stephan Hamilton takes on the ultimate researcher’s challenge – Berlin during the chaotic final months of the Second World War. Here, we take a closer look at how Volume 2 is set to break new ground – examining the operational-level detail of the German defence of the Oderfront between January and …
INTERVIEW: ‘Oder Front’ series Author A. Stephan Hamilton Read More »
By the summer of 1943, thanks to Allied victories over the U-boats worldwide and most recently against the Kriegsmarine surface fleet in the Battle of the Barents Sea, the worst of the Battle of the Atlantic crisis had passed — but it was not yet over. With regards to the surface fleet, the German Battleship Tirpitz, sister ship …
The British Midget Submarine Attack on Battleship Tirpitz Read More »
The three-front Easter Offensive, launched by North Vietnam in 1972, stunned the South Vietnamese and Americans with its magnitude. Here, France’s Albert Grandolini explains how he explores this landmark campaign in the Vietnam War in two exhilarating new volumes. For many, the Vietnam War is synonymous with anti-insurgency warfare – where US soldiers tried to catch elusive …
Easter Offensive Vietnam 1972 – “Stunning in its magnitude” Read More »
A few years ago I worked for the London Borough of Merton. Based at the Civic Centre in Morden, for nearly two years every day I walked past a small plaque in the foyer to Lieutenant Colonel John Dimmer, VC. I was recently reminded of this when I picked up a set of VC winner …
This officer served his machine gun.. until he had been shot five times – Jack Dimmer VC Read More »
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