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A SUPERB DUO FROM SEAFORTH PUBLISHING – Review by Mark Barnes

Seaforth books always bring a smile to my face. I like the layout and the use of archive photography and their books have been some…

Divers and Historians Find WWII B-17 Bomber’s Gravesite

In a series of events that sounds like the plot of an adventure-action movie, a group of amateur divers who call themselves the “Shadows of…

Hitler’s Mein Kampf Returns To German Book Shops

Mein Kampf has been variously described as a series of rants, or a stream of consciousness. Hitler didn’t write the book in the accepted sense…

China hands over World War Two US crew remains

The US Navy has been handed-over three World War Two US crew remains. The handover took place on China’s one and only aircraft carrier whereby…

How To Assemble A Crated Spitfire From Burma, But This One Was Never Buried!

In 2008 Historic Flight At Kilo-7 acquired a Spitfire, which arrived in a crate from Burma. However it was never buried underneath a runway like…

Search for US and Japanese MIA remains on Saipan

The Second World War battle of Saipan took place between 15 June–9 July 1944. The battle has been described as one of the most important…

Shot Down Over Hungary, Parachuted, Shot In The Heart And Nearly Lynched But Saved At The Last Moment!

A fresh, young, pilot of only 22, Richard Carroll was in the midst of his 15th mission when his B24 was hit by flak. The…

Historic Aircraft Wreck Found. Is This The Wildcat Of US Ace James E Swett? By Roderick Eime

On my last trip to the Solomon Islands in October, I was fortunate to make my first dive on some of the historic aircraft wrecks…

Help Restore Avro Lancaster KB882!

The Alberta Aviation Museum needs your help to relocate & restore Avro Lancaster KB882 to fully operational condition. KB882 Needs YOU! Avro Lancaster Mk.X KB882,…

Helicopter Pilot Who Stopped My Lai Massacre Was Called A Traitor In America & Almost Court-Martialed

On 16 March 1968, Hugh Thompson, Jr., Glenn Andreotta, and Lawrence Colburne did their best to protect Vietnamese civilians from being slaughtered. In return for their…

RAF IN CAMERA – 1950s – Review by Mark Barnes

Earlier in the year I was happy to see an Images of War series book about the RAF in the Cold War. That book had…

German WWII atrocities in Greece

Italian troops attempted an invasion of Greece in October 1940, but the Greek army pushed the invaders back across the border into Albania. Germany intervened to…