America Almost Nuked Itself Back In 1961!
Broken Arrow The U.S. narrowly avoided a catastrophic disaster when two Mark 39 hydrogen bombs were accidentally dropped over Goldsboro,[…]
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Category: Military History
That Shock Army that Broke the Most Brutal Siege of WW2
Brutal Siege of WW2 The fighting at Leningrad was relentless, and the city was completely cut off from the outside[…]
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The Most Surprisingly Important Place of WW2?
Important Place of WW2 While most accounts put the start of World War 2 on September 1, 1939, many historians[…]
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Crush Depth: The Nightmarish Loss of USS Thresher
USS Thresher (SSN-593) was tragically Lost The first of its class and leading the way to sweeping US Navy Submarine[…]
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The First American Jet Engine. the Hush-Hush Boys | When G.E. Received Frank Whittle’s Invention
First American Jet Engine A 1952 documentary about the first American jet engine, which was (Sir) Frank Whittle’s invention. In[…]
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The Helicopter you could Hear Seven or Eight Miles Away
Hughes XH-17 Thirty years before achieving the pinnacle of helicopter technology with the design of the legendary AH-64 Apache, the[…]
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The Monster Bomber Germany Would Do Anything to Destroy – Petlyakov Pe-8
Petlyakov Pe-8 bomber In May of 1942, a Petlyakov Pe-8 bomber took off from the Soviet Union and headed to[…]
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Its Weapons Were Half Its Weight – Douglas A-4 Skyhawk
Douglas A-4 Skyhawk Leading Douglas aviation engineer Ed Heinemann wanted to take a different approach when designing a replacement for[…]
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France and Germany Worked on a Fighter Jet You Never Heard Of
Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet The Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet was born at a time when the world desperately needed collaboration. During the[…]
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The Plane that could Receive a Panzer Attack and Keep Flying
Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik Vasily Emelianenko was nervous. His entire unit of rugged Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik ground-attack aircraft had just decimated[…]
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