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In the west corner of the Zeppelin field, one of the Nazi Party rally grounds at Nuremberg, German soldiers dug in furiously. Above them wer...

Ralph Burbridge was 21 in 1940, at this age he could finally make his own life choices, and his first one was to join the USAAF. On December...

There has always been an appeal to military types of the ability to place the firepower of artillery on the mobility and positioning of airc...

Mortars are great, they give the infantry they are supporting some organic indirect fire, sort of like pocket artillery. Plus, they're c...

Note: I first got clued into this story from the IWM website . They have a large collection of free to use images relating to the first part...

During the Second World War a lot of the UK's odd weapons and equipment research came from one of two departments. The famous MD1, nickn...

A couple of weeks ago I was invited down to the Ridgeway Military & Aviation Research Group (RMARG) at RAF Welford. The visit was to see...