Chin Peng was born Ong Boon Hua in Sitiawan, Perak, Malaya into a middle class family; his father ran a small bicycle, tire, and spare motor parts...
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BiographySHIMADA was a regular officer of 18 years service. He was not a naval aviator but had served as a naval aviation observer. As Air Officer...
Franz Epp was born in Munich, Germany to painter Rudolph Epp and Katharina Streibel. He attended school in Augsburg, Germany and then attended...
The Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters were designed by Willy Messerschmitt in the early 1930s. They were the first modern fighters of Germany. After...
The 10.5 cm Leichtgeschütz 42 recoilless guns were the successors to weapons manufacturer Rheinmetall's earlier 7.5 cm LG 40 recoilless guns,...
Ise was the namesake ship of her class of battleships. During the early 1920s, she patrolled off the eastern coast of Russia. On 12 Apr 1922,...
The light cruiser that was to become the HMAS Perth was built in the Portsmouth Naval Dockyard and commissioned into the Royal Navy in mid-1936...
DD365/A16-3Serial 254U.S.S. Cummings,Pearl Harbor, T.H.December 18, 1941. From: The Commanding Officer.To: The Commander-in-Chief, United States...
BiographySHIKI, Tsuneo, Captain, I.J.N.SHIKI was a regular officer of 20 years service. He was assigned to duty in the Bureau of Naval Personnel...
The Type 99 gas-operated light machine guns entered trial service with the Japanese Army in 1939, and mass production of these weapons began in...
Mogami was the namesake ship of her class of cruisers. Her class of cruisers was uniquely designed to be lightweight yet still provided adequate...
Henry Lewis Stimson was an American statesman who served six presidents. A conservative Republican and something of an imperialist, he is best...
[IMG]When Japan's surrender was announced, the crowd gathered at New York City's Times Square bursted into a wild celebration. Photographer...
USS Wisconsin was the third of United States Navy's Iowa-class battleships. With Captain Earl E. Stone in command, she held her trials in the...
About seven years ago, I met Bill Lee. Â*Bill recently died after complications from a stroke. Â*He was a Navy veteran of both World War II and...
The Fw 187 Falke (Falcon) design was drawn up by Kurt Tank as a private venture within the manufacturer Focke-Wulf as a twin-engine long range...
Mutsu was the second of two Nagato-class battleships of the Japanese Navy; her construction was the responsibility of naval architect Commander...
Biography SHIBATA, Bunzo, Captain SHIBATA was an experienced naval aviator who had a considerable amount of command duty in operational units...
Biography SASAKI, Akira, Captain, I.J.N. SASAKI was a former Assistant Naval Attache (air at WASHINGTON about 1930. He offered no particular...
