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At 1410 on the 15th of August 1944, a Mosquito Mk.XVI climbed into the afternoon sky from its airbase at San Severo. Piloting was Captain Sa...

Thanks to Ed Francis for helping me on this one. Often British tanks will sport a pair of eyes painted on them. This tradition is done so th...

Creating a code name for a project is tricky. You want something that is easy to remember but doesn't give away what the project is. On ...

At 0900 on the 19th of April 1945 the Chief of Leipzig's fire department scrambled through the rubble of his home city. To either side c...

 Edit: I've just been informed that there is some question to the first part of this article, that the tank was a demonstration piece of...

A little while back I was doing some research on military bulldozers, and I grabbed a file marked 'The Bulldozer', that'll be fu...

In the Second World War the Japanese forces had a reputation for infiltration and surprise, supported by little logistics. In early 1943 a s...

Back in 2015 I posted an article about Japanese Heavy tanks, entitled Japanese Monster . In it I mentioned several Japanese tank designs I h...

On the 10th of April 1945 American forces were approaching Leipzig. In support of this push the RAF launched a daylight raid on the marshall...