The Blohm und Voss P.170
So was it a brilliant mistake or was it just a mistake?
The Blohm und Voss P.170 fighter-bomber of 1942 …
Military History
A Very Short History of Postwar Military Airships
When the U.S. Navy disbanded the last of its blimp fleet in 1962, it marked the end of the first …
Llewellyn Chilson: America’s Neglected Warrior
On Dec. 6, 1946, President Harry S Truman pinned seven medals on the chest of Army Sgt. Llewellyn M. “Al” …
Construction of the Alcan Highway
“The biggest and hardest job since the Panama Canal.”
—Maj. Robert W. Madden, describing construction of the Alcan Highway
On …
Vultee P-66 Vanguard
The P-66 Vanguard looked right. It looked like exactly the kind of World War II fighter that might have won …
Tigers in Tunisia
There were never very many Tiger tanks, less than 1,400 total. They were huge (German crews scornfully called them “furniture …
The Creation of the Proximity Fuze
When the Pearl Harbor attack was over, amid the preparations for war, an accounting of the cost began. The losses …
Operation Iskra: The Red Army Effort to Break the Siege of Leningrad
The January 1943 Red Army victory over the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad in the south was matched that same …
The Battle of Rennell Island
By the end of 1942, the Japanese Navy had shot its bolt at Guadalcanal. Unable to even get sufficient supplies …
Book Review – The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today
In his study of American generals from World War II on, The Generals: American Military Command from World War II …