Operation Türkenkreuz – Remembering the Kaiser’s 1917 ‘Blitz’ on Great Britain

“The raid was just the beginning of a major bombing campaign against southern England and the British capital.“ ON THE MORNING OF May 25, 1917 few residents of the English town of Folkestone in Kent expected that they’d be…

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The First Dogfighters – How History’s Earliest Combat Pilots Improvised Aerial Warfare

“Many of the principles of air to air combat still in use today were improvised on the fly (literally) by pilots who were making it up as they went along.” THE WORLD’S MILITARIES were among…

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