The V stood for Vergeltungswaffen, meaning revenge. Hitler had his best scientists working on long-range, jet-propelled weapons that came close to...
Rockets to assist take-off gave carrier-borne planes greater speed and weight-carrying capacity; mounted on each side of the fuselage, their...
Projectors being loaded with rockets in the Reichwald Forest area in February 1945. A group of 12 projectors or "guns" each with 32 barrels could...
Yakovlev YAK-I Well liked by its pilots, the rugged Yak-I was the first Soviet fighter able to take on the German Bf-109 on roughly equal...
With a crew of two or three, the Po-2 first flew in January 1928, and over 13,000 had been built by June 1941. Though it was used primarily for...
"Except possibly for a few last shots, the Battle of London is over," declared Mr. Duncan Sandys, M.P. Chairman of the War Cabinet Committee on...
Role Heavy fighter / strike aircraft Manufacturer Bristol Aeroplane Company First flight 17 July 1939 Introduction 27 July 1940 Retired...
A camera-gun shot of Typhoons firing rockets at a level crossing in France. [IMG]
Russian Crews loading M-13 Rockets on rails of BM-13-16 rocket launchers based on Studebaker US6 trucks. Taken at the Central Front in the Summer...
Abandoned Soviet BM-13-16 Rocket Launcher coded M-620-97 mounted on STZ-5 NATI tracked tractor from the 5th Guard Rocket Artillery Regiment,...
On Friday September first 1939, I and many hundreds of children were assembled at Napier Rd School in East Ham and marched along the High Street...
The 15-cm (5.9-in) German artillery rockets were the mainstay of the large number of German army Nebelwerfer (literally smoke-throwing) units,...
As was the case in many other fields of advanced experimentation, the Germans only toyed with adapting rockets for launch from a submerged U-boat....
The Japanese recognised the value of the artillery rocket to then under armed forces and carried out considerable design and development work in...
During the battle of Berlin, Hitler Jugend and Volksturm (Cant remember if this is the right name for them) were basically scattered around the...
Rockets from a Allied Navy landing craft streak ashore in support of an Australian landing on the oil-rich island of Tarakan, off the east coast...
For the first half of the war, the principal armament on most U-boats was the 8.8cm or 10.5cm naval gun, and/or the 2cm flak gun. As the war...
The first “Vergeltungswaffen” campaign commenced on 12th June 1944 and lasted until 5th September. Allied intelligence had been aware of German...
Oberst Werner Baumbach Werner Baumbach was born on 27 December 1916 in the town of Cloppenburg. Fascinated by flying from an early age, as a...
Escaping troops from German seventh army and fifth panzer armies are caught by rocket-firing typhoon aircraft in a narrow lane east of the river...