Marc Mitscher pulled the control stick of his aircraft to the side, bringing his plane around and lining up for the first ever aircraft landing on the USS Saratoga (CV-3).…

The 21 cm Mörser 18 (21 cm Mrs 18), or 21 cm Mörser M 18/L31, was a German heavy howitzer used in the Second World War by Independent artillery battalions and batteries. A number were also used by coastal artillery units. Design A Mrs…

Initially envisaged as a dive bomber with a crew of three, the Junkers Ju 88 became operational in September 1939 and was first seen over Great Britain on October 16,…

A World War II bomber has been discovered 3 miles deep in the Pacific Ocean, and it’s still fully armed with an 83-year-old bomb fixed to the wing, NOAA Ocean…

During the Second World War Germany modified many smaller hulls to carry disproportionately large guns. The Nashorn tank destroyer was an example of this, as it carried the formidable PaK…

Acoustic location was used from mid-WW1 to the early years of WW2 for the passive detection of aircraft by picking up the noise of the engines. Passive acoustic location involves…

Origin The prototype of the ISU-152 was introduced in Januari 1943 as Project 236. On a KV-1 tank base the Soviets placed a huge gun in response to the new German heavy…

“When United States and coalition forces invaded Iraq in 2003 [during Operation Iraqi Freedom], they faced no Iraqi Air Force opposition. Not one Iraqi warplane attacked the invaders as they…

December 1941 was a dark month and the end of a dark year for the Soviets as the Germans pressed ever onward toward Moscow, the lair where Joseph Stalin and his minions…

Throughout the four-year span of WW I, soldiers toiled away in the trenches, battling not only the enemy, but shell shock, trench foot, and other harrowing consequences of this brutal…