The first known raid by the RAF occurred on the night of ... took off from airfields in the Taranto plain, heading for Greece. The B-17s were escorted by P-38 Lightning fighters of the 14th ...

What are the best WW2 games? The most devastating conflict in our species’ history of fighting over land and ideologies has been distilled into heroic charges, tense dogfights, epic digital wars ...

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Real Engineering Britain's Most Daring WW2 Raid Posted: December 17, 2024 | Last updated: December 17, 2024 In 1943, Britain launched one of the most daring and precision-focused air raids of ...

Area: Around the Egyptian town of El Alamein, 100km (60 miles) west of Alexandria. Players: Allies: General Claude Auchinleck's 8th Army consisting of 30th Corps, 13th Corps and 10th Corps ...

What began in February 2022 as the biggest European land war since World War II, now competes for the title of the most global conflict since the Cold War, with dozens of countries directly or ...

Fortunately, the precedent for this kind of transformation occurred more than 70 years ago, when American private industry mobilized to win World War II. At the dawn of the Progressive Era ...

The explosive was uncovered in the Sülz district of the west German city. "World War II bomb found in Sülz," the official account of the city of Cologne posted on X. "During construction work ...

In 1970, the USS Cobia was turned into a memorial for submariners in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, a town known for the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, which built 28 submarines during World War II.

At the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc, you can descend a steep staircase into the USS Cobia, a US Navy submarine that sank 13 ships and earned four battle stars in World War II.

The RAF bomber ran out of fuel as it returned from a raid over Berlin on 1 September 1940. Geoff Mandale, whose father Sgt James "Jimmy" Mandale was the plane's rear gunner, said it was ...