Category: Weapons and Technology
Dive Bombers at Midway – How the Dauntless SBD Turned the Tide in the Pacific War’s Most Important Battle
“Today a computer would instantly process the flood of incoming information and fly the correct profile, but in 1942 the pilot was the computer.” By Walter Topp THEY WERE THE Navy’s last chance. It was…
Lessons From the U.S. Civil War – What the Victorian-Era British Army Learned By Observing the Fighting in America
“The slaughter of August 1914 is attributed to a failure to see what the American war had foretold.” By Michael Somerville THE AMERICAN Civil War is often regarded a key moment in the history of…
Death From Above – Inside America’s Air Campaign Against Hitler’s U-boats
“As the war continued, American tactics, detection gear and weaponry evolved to take the fight to Dönitz’s Wolf Packs.” By Alan C. Carey IT WAS NAZI GERMANY’S commander-in-chief of U-boats, Karl Dönitz, who was to…
The Higgins Boat – 9 Things You Might Not Know About the Landing Craft That Changed History
“They served everywhere — from the wind-swept coastlines of Northern France to the far-flung tropical shores of the Pacific — ultimately changing the very nature of amphibious warfare.” ONE WOULD BE hard-pressed to come up…
Unkindest Cuts – The Three Most Famous British Sabres of the Napoleonic Era
“The three sword patterns of 1796 all played important roles in Napoleonic history: one distinguished, one solid, and one unimpressive.” By John Danielski “TROOPER DAWKINS of the 11th [Hussars] raised himself in his stirrups and…
Getting There Was Half the Battle – The Incredible Maiden Voyage of the USS Monitor
“By evening of the second day, a full-force gale engulfed the little convoy. Monitor, with just two feet of freeboard, was singularly ill-designed to weather an ocean storm.” By Walter Topp ON MARCH 9, 1862,…
