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I have seen the light!

Despite the image of Boy scouts in baggy shorts and funny hats, or 1950’s happy campers, Hurricane and pressure Paraffin (Kerosene) lamps do have a…

Flying really REALLY low! The beat up buzz men.

This video shows several low passes by a B-17 at RAF Bovingdon in England; it’s a capture from the movie “The War Lover.” The War…

EXCLUSIVE: Wheatcroft Collections Tripple goes for a swim

As our subscribers will know War History Online have teamed up with the Wheatcroft Collection to enable us to bring you all the lastest news,…

Bumper Markings

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This article is going to be focused on more specific and specialised units and their respective markings; for example it will look at the Medical…

M201/MB Differences Part 2

M201/MB Differences Well known 8th USAAF historian and mv enthusiast, Steve A. Carr, has many of the answers in part two of this four part…

Dodge – Flying Control Conversion

Flying Control Conversion Well known 8th USAAF historian and mv enthusiast, Steve A. Carr, likes to do something different and in this article Steve converts…

Flamming Panzer III

Flammpanzer III (SdKfz 141/3) Flamethrower system was located in the turret of the vehicle, a PzKpfw III Ausf M, along with a MG 34 coaxially,…

M201/MB Differences

Well known 8th USAAF historian and mv enthusiast, Steve A. Carr, has many of the answers in this four part series of articles that jeep…

Photo gallery: U.S. Army desert training with general George Patton (16 pics)

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April 20, 1942: a mobile artillery unit about to start on maneuvers

The Catalina sank a German U-boat off Iceland in 1944.

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A WW2 Catalina flying boat which took part in the Fermanagh Seaplane Festival a month ago remains stranded at the former wartime airbase on Lough Erne.It was damaged after drifting onto a moored yacht and there has been a delay in getting the plane repaired. The incident during the event is being examined by Air Accident Investigators and their report will be made public when it is completed.