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'The Unkillable Soldier' Who Kept Fighting Despite Losing an Eye and Hand in World War I
Carton de Wiart died in 1963 at the age of 83, but his exploits have inspired generations of service members in the United ...
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Battle of Britain heroes: Four tales of derring-do as the last of ‘the few’ dies aged 105
John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway, the last pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain, has died aged 105, severing the last living link ...
As Children, They Fled the Nazis Alone. Newly Found Papers Tell Their Story.
Just under 10,000 Jewish children fled to Britain from Europe from December 1938 to September 1939. Not much was known about ...
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Illusion of 'dazzle' paint on World War I battleships
A new analysis of 105-year-old data on the effectiveness of 'dazzle' camouflage on battleships in World War I has found that while dazzle had some effect, the 'horizon effect' had far more influence ...
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The P-51 Mustang and the man who won the World War II air war with it
It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...
Sole surviving Battle of Britain hero John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway who was shot down four times dies aged 105
THE last of The Few has died, age 105. Group Captain John “Paddy” Hemingway had been the sole surviving pilot from the Battle ...
10 Of The Wildest Features Ever Built Into A Car
The premium features you find on cars these days all tend to fall within a fairly narrow definition of practical luxury, but ...
The Gloster Meteor: A Closer Look At Britain's 1st Jet Fighter
This article investigates Britain's first jet fighter. Also, a member of an RAF unit that worked on the Meteor tells about a ...
Alexandria native, 100, survived 'miraculous' B-24 flight across Adriatic Sea in World War II
Newark Advocate history columnist Doug Stout of the Licking County Library continues Staff Sgt. Robert "Bob" Hickman's story of survival in World War II.
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Trent, the powerful Rolls-Royce with which perhaps you have traveled without realizing it
In 1988 Rolls-Royce revived the Trent name to name a new turbofan engine: the RB-211-524L, first fired on 27 August 1990. The ...
The National Interest7d
Nazi Germany Once Tried to Build an Aircraft Carrier. It Didn’t End Well.
Unlike the Japanese carrier fleet, the Kriegsmarine envisioned using the Graf Zeppelin in a support capacity for the wider ...
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Messerschmitt Me 262: The World’s First Fighter Jet
While the numbers may be inflated, Luftwaffe pilots claimed that the Me 262 shot down 542 Allied aircraft during the war.