December 1941 brought the Pacific War to the doorstep of Hong Kong, a British colony that had quietly become a crucial supply hub for China during the ongoing Sino-Japanese War. In this episode, we ...
Strategic bombing with conventional weapons, like the United States is doing in Iran, has never forced unconditional ...
Kenneth Walsh worked up a tactical doctrine for the Vought F4U-1 - and put it to the test.
Why would anyone opt for a twin-engine setup for a fighter? Well, sometimes a bigger aircraft was required for greater range, or armament or a second crewmember to navigate or operate a radar. Here we ...
A newly published database includes hundreds of plaques, signs and pamphlets the National Park Service has flagged for review ...
THOUSANDS of people have been evacuated from Dresden after an unexploded World War 2 bomb was uncovered in the German city. A bomb squad was set to try to defuse the 250Kg British bomb which was ...
There is much current discussion about having foreign shipyards build U.S. Navy warships as a way to increase production and fleet numbers. That sounds good on paper, but if the target is combatant ...