Category: Weapons and Technology
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…
HMS St. Lawrence – The Mightiest Ship To Never Sail the Seas
“The lumbering warship’s sole purpose was to assert the Crown’s naval supremacy on a 300 kilometre long strip of freshwater.” THE COLOSSAL St. Lawrence was one of the largest fighting vessels of the Napoleonic era. Laid down in April…
Soar Winners – The Glider-Troopers of WW2
ON SEPT. 13, 1943, HIGH ATOP THE Apennine Mountains in Italy, one of the most daring rescue missions of the Second World War took place. After a humiliating arrest by his own party underlings, the fascist leader…
Wunderwaffe — How The Nazi’s Planned A Futuristic ‘Super War’
“Most of these proposed war machines never left the drawing board, but they still manage to fascinate, even 70 years later.” BY 1944, THE future of Adolf Hitler’s promised “Thousand-year Reich” seemed in doubt. With…
The Jets of WW2 — The War Ended Before These Experimental Warplanes Could See Action
“During the conflict’s final months, American, German, British and other air forces were already preparing to unleash whole fleets of cutting-edge jet propelled fighters and bombers against their enemies.” HAD THE Second World War continued…
Death From Above — Inside Japan’s Secret Balloon Bomber Campaign Against North America
“For months the War Department knew that the continent’s airspace was being invaded regularly by strange automated bomb-dropping balloons – they just weren’t reporting it.” TO THOSE ENJOYING lunch in an idyllic picnic ground in…
