The Lancaster – Remembering Britain’s Mightiest Bomber of WW2 (and the Men Who Flew Them)
“The Lancaster’s performance, reliability and sheer charisma won high praise.” By Vic Jay TWO DAYS BEFORE Christmas Day, 1944, Bob Jay, a newly qualified flight engineer with the RAF, climbed into an aircraft for his…
The Fast and the Furious — A Quick History of Civil War Repeating Rifles
“The two most common repeater rifles available during the Civil War were the Spencer and Henry rifles. Both gave the infantry a tremendous advantage on the battlefield.” By Sam Bocetta THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR was…
A Bloody Baptism of Fire — The 8th Lincolns at the Battle of Loos, 1915
“The 8th Lincolns paid a terrible price for the errors made by High Command.” By Nigel Atter BY THE END of 1914, the Western Front had consolidated into 400 miles of continuous trenches stretching from…
Coats of Arms – Exploring the Colourful History of Military Heraldry
“It emerged sometime in the late 12th Century, at a time when knighthood became prestigious, and the knightly caste and the increasingly wealthy nobility merged.” WHY HAVE SO many European countries used double-headed eagles on…
The Flying Tigers — 12 Facts About America’s Legendary Volunteer Fighter Squadron
“The victories of these Americans over the rice paddies of Burma are comparable in character, if not in scope, with those won by the RAF over the hop fields of Kent in the Battle of…
Tank Busting – Blowing Up the Myth of the Mighty M4 Sherman
“The Battle of the Bulge exposed deficiencies in the M4 so glaringly obvious, what became known as the Sherman Tank Scandal would be splashed across front pages all over the Allied world.” By Christian M….
