Youngest RAF Spitfire Pilot in Battle of Britain Passes away at 97
Geoffrey ‘Boy’ Wellum was the Second World War’s youngest Spitfire pilot. He joined the RAF at eighteen and died two weeks after his 97th birthday…
Remember That Time Israel Stole a MiG 21?
The Mossad is well known and considered one of the elite intelligence institutions in the world. The organization has accomplished many incredible feats over the…
Revolutionaries or Privateers? – The Birth of the U.S. Navy
At the start of the American Revolution, shipbuilding grew in the Colonies because of raw materials and the many native white pine trees greater than…
Secret CIA Operation to Recover Lost Soviet Submarine
The story is straight out of a Cold War techno-thriller. It’s February 1968, and the Soviet submarine K-129 has disappeared while conducting its ordinary patrols…
VTOL – From Harriers to “Uber Air”?
Vertical take-off and landing (or VTOL) has been largely the stuff of science-fiction. It usually features something like rotating jets angle downwards and then fire,…
Victory in the Balance – Yorktown: Ending the Revolutionary War
The siege of Yorktown began on 28 September 1781. It was to last until October 19. In the weeks preceding the final battle, the British…
The Famous Messerschmitt Bf109 – Facts You May Not Know
The most famous German fighter plane of the Second World War, the Messerschmitt Bf109 played a hugely important part in that conflict. First Flight The…
Breaking Barriers and Fighting Germans: First Indian Pilot in WWI – Hardit Singh Malik
Hardit Singh Malik was the first Indian to serve as a pilot in the British air force. Indians who were studying in Britain during the…
Vietnam War Hero the Focus of a New Motion Picture
It was April 11, 1966, Cam My, Republic of Vietnam, and the Army’s 1st Infantry Division started taking heavy casualties in a protracted firefight. William…
Landwhale Ahoy! French Super Tank Char 2C – photos and video
World War I saw the dawn of a variety of new weapons. Vivid experimenting with vehicles was affected by continually changing battlefields. However, many engineers…
Clever Soviets – How the USSR got Missiles to Cuba Without Detection
One of the Soviet Union’s finest military operations was the secret deployment of nuclear missiles and tens of thousands of servicemen to Cuba in 1962.…
Operation Eagle Claw – The Disaster that Changed American Special Operations
The April 24th Op is a major event in the history of the United States’ Special Forces operations not just because it was among the…