Askari soldiers at shooting practice in German East Africa.Africa was affected by the war in many spheres: military, political, economic, and social. The results were not the same everywhere. In areas where there had been actual fighting, notably in the German colonies, the people suffered greatly. In the French colonies, where the burden of conscription had been heavy, there were anti-colonial...
In 1960, the U.S. Air Force began looking for a new weapons systems to use in Vietnam. Under the program Project Gunship I, a WW II Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport was converted into the first side-firing gunship. This new aircraft was designated AC-47D (Attack-Cargo). Following a successful combat test program, the 4th Air Commando Squadron (ACS) was formed and equipped with these gunships. From...
The Royal Navy came to the RAF’s assistance by providing a chain of small craft sailing 3 miles apart from each other 7 miles from the French coast, each with observers on board. Pilots would be warned of flying bombs on their way by the observers firing off star shells or signal rockets. However, this system was not fully in place until the main attack ended.Running commentary from radar...
The aftermath of the car Reinhard Heydrich was riding in.Jozef GabčíkJan KubišReinhard Heydrich, the target of Operation Anthropoid.Special Operations Executive (SOE) code name for the mission to assassinate the hated SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich in Prague. The operation was planned for the Czech National Day in October 1941, but bad weather forced two postponements, so the team did not...
The first warship sunk in the Battle of TsushimaThe final and decisive naval battle of the Russo–Japanese War. It was fought during 27–28 May 1905 near the Tsushima Straits, between the Japanese Combined Fleet under the command of Admiral Tôgô Heihachirô and the Russian Second Pacific Squadron under Vice Admiral Zinovii Rozhestvenskii. It was not only the most devastating defeat suffered by the...
Rear Admiral David D. Porter’s Flag Ship, Mississippi Squadron. Photo-types by Gutekunst of water color paintings by A.C. Stewart, an Engineer in the U.S. Navy during the War of the Rebellion, compliments of the William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Company to Colonel W.B. Remey, USMC, Judge Advocate General, circa 1880s.The fall of Vicksburg ensured the fall of Port Hudson and the...
