The first eye-witness account of the landing of the British North-Western Expeditionary Force in Norway was given by Mr. J. E. Thompson, a Red...
Sequence of Orders for Firing Battleship's Guns 1. Captain sights target and informs principal Control Officer to send message to Transmitting...
[IMG] The eight deadly Browning machine-guns in the wings of the Vickers-Super-Marine Spitfire fighter are fed from belts holding 250 rounds...
Here a mine, complete with its sinking and anchoring apparatus is being dropped over the stern of a mine layer by the elaborate apparatus...
At dawn on September 1, 1939, the German army launched a ferocious assault across the Polish border. The Luftwaffe sent its bombers and fighters...
As the dust settled over Europe in the summer of 1945 and war-ravaged Europeans began the slow process of recovery, the leadership of the...
A teenage soldier in the Wehrmacht, Franz Gockel had his 18th birthday while serving as a gunner in a 'resistance nest' on Omaha beach. He was...
The Mauser "98" series is world-famous principally because Mauser designs were until the introduction of the self-loading rifles the most widely...
The Dornier Do 217 was a World War II heavy bomber designed from scratch as a replacement for the venerable Dornier Do 17. Dornier recognized...