December 7, 1941, in the early morning hours aboard Ford Island, Hawaii, sailors and Marines stood at morning muster when the buzz of airplanes cut the air. In a blink,…
This Russian Soviet WW2 KV-2 Heavy Tank can be found at the Central Armed Forces Museum, Moscow, Russia. It was manufactured in in June 1941, it has the Serial Number…
Russian tank design, whether under the Soviet regime or Putin’s control, has had its peaks and valleys. While occasionally producing game-changing tanks like the T-34 or the T-72, on other…
Summary: The HMS Hood, the Royal Navy’s pride, epitomized British naval power but met a tragic end during WWII against the German battleship Bismarck. Despite being a formidable battlecruiser with advanced armament and…
Type, class: Amphibious Assault Ship, Landing Platform Helicopter - LPH / Iwo Jima classBuilder: Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA STATUS:Ordered: December 10, 1962Laid down: June 15, 1964Launched: July 31, 1965Commissioned: August 6, 1966Decommissioned: September 15, 1995Fate: sold for scrap;…
by G. Paul Garson By 1939 the German Reich possessed 3,800,000 horses to be used in WWII German cavalry while 885,000 were initially called to the Wehrmacht as saddle, draft,…
Colorization of photographs is one of many ways to bring history back to life – often into completely new life. This new kind of art shows us the true colours of…
The Avro Lancaster was a British bomber and a crucial aircraft for the Royal Air Force (RAF) of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. More than 7,000 examples…
Operation Deadlight was a post-World War II undertaking by the Allies, primarily led by the British Royal Navy, to scuttle over 100 captured German U-boats in the North Atlantic. Initiated…
We are used to viewing the war in black and white. So when you get to see colourised images it brings the war to us with a different dimension. The…
