Sunday, October 27, 2019

New Arivals

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Before the Second World War El Alamein was little more than a railway halt, during the War it became the furthest the Germans reached into E...
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Sunday, October 20, 2019

The CIA's Air to Air

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In 1965 the US launched Operation Rolling Thunder over North Vietnam. Things went poorly for the US at first, with organisational and equipm...
Sunday, October 13, 2019

Sabres in Hand

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On September 1st 1939, A Polish cavalry regiment spotted some Germans loitering in a clearing near Krojanty. The 18th Pomeranian Uhlans laun...
Sunday, October 6, 2019

Scanlon's Knock-Out Punch

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There is a constant problem in doing these articles. Sources can conflict quite badly. Sometimes you need to glue snippets together from mul...
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Sunday, September 29, 2019

Operation Gutesholz

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At 1400, on 27th June 1944 the guns around Rauray, almost due west of Caen, fell silent. Both the Germans and British forces had agreed a lo...
Sunday, September 22, 2019

Bouncing Bazooka's

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About two months ago I mentioned, on my Facebook page, a friend in the US by the name of Harold Biondo . Now he's a lucky bloke, and get...
Sunday, September 15, 2019

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrt!

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 Last week we looked at the background to the mighty A-10 and its development, now we continue the story. The A-10 has been made famous...
Sunday, September 8, 2019

Empire Building

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The US equipment procurement system is complex and impenetrable to an outsider. On at least one occasion it has been the subject for a c...