Category: Weapons and Technology
The “Camera Myth” and Other Misconceptions About the Early Royal Flying Corps
“One enduring and particularly popular misconception of the period holds that the British military was so manifestly uninterested in aerial warfare that crews had to literally buy their own cameras to experiment with.” By Greg…
F-86 Sabre — Nine Fascinating Facts About America’s Iconic Cold War Jet Fighter
“The first Sabres were deployed to Korea after front-line Russian jets appeared over the 38th Parallel.” By Michael Jabbra THE F-86 SABRE was the principal U.S. Air Force fighter during the Korean War. Developed in…
Marian Rejewski – Meet the Polish Cryptographer Who Cracked Germany’s Top-Secret Enigma Code Seven Years Before WW2
“Although Rejewski cracked the code for the first time in 1932, this was only the beginning of a series of Polish intelligence coups.” By Eilidh McGinness IT WAS 1928 when Germany first began using Enigma…
The Bomb That Wasn’t Needed – Allied Intel Agencies Had News That Might Have Prevented the Atomic Age. Sadly, They Didn’t Share It
“For well over a year, Churchill’s government knew that Berlin would have no bomb, but it let the U.S. work on in the dark.” By Peter Watson IN MID-1942, just as the Battle of Midway…
Sunset Cruises – The Remarkable Voyages of History’s Last Sailing Warships
“While ship-builders would continue to add sails to their designs for decades to come, by the 1830s most naval powers were busily retrofitting their existing wooden sail fleets with boilers, engines, paddles and screws.” FRANCE’S Valmy…
“Big Wisky” – 12 Amazing Facts About the Battleship USS Wisconsin
“Entering service just as the supremacy of battleships was giving way to aircraft carriers, the heavy guns of the four Iowa-class vessels were still unmatched.” By Amy Waters Yarsinske BERTHED TODAY AT Nauticus, the national maritime…
