Divers and salvage crews have successfully raised a WW2 SB2C Helldiver dive bomber from the bottom of a California lake where it crashed in 1945. Now that the plane is free from the mud on the lake bottom, the salvage team will next move the Helldiver to shore. The warplane is expected to [...]
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Britain honored the Royal Air Force on the anniversary of the Battle of Britain with a flyover of London by WWII Spitfire and Hurricane aircraft. The flyover marked 70 years since the critical aerial Battle of Britain when the badly outnumbered British planes fought off the German Luftwaffe. The actor Robert Hardy read [...] Concord Publications has announced a new title in the Warrior Series of books: Operation Little Saturn and Infantry Battles of Heeresgruppe Süd December 1942 – June 1943 by William K. Fowler (ISBN 962-361-163-3, 52 pages, 135 photographs, 4 color plates by Ramiro Bujeiro).
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New World Miniatures has announced two new 1/35th scale resin figures depicting men of the 761st Tank Battalion “Black Panthers”.
News of the strange. The British Ministry of Defense has released hundreds of secret “UFO files” online. The files, published at http://ufos.nationalarchives.gov.uk/, span several decades and contain eyewitness accounts, sketches, and classified briefings. The files include a letter accusing Winston Churchill and Dwight Eisenhower of ordering the coverup of a wartime encounter [...] City of Ruins is a new documentary film featuring 3-D sequences showing the destruction in bombed-out Warsaw after World War II. The documentary movie from the Warsaw Uprising Museum was directed by Oscar-nominated director Tomek Baginski.
June 6th marks the 66th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied Invasion of Normandy in WWII. The Big Picture at boston.com remembers D-Day with a selection of high-resolution photographs from 1944 and 2010: Remembering D-Day, 66 Years Ago. D-Day Landings, Normandy, June 6, 1944. (Photo: U.S. National Archives)
A WWII bomb exploded in the German city of Göttingen while being disarmed by a bomb disposal team, killing three and seriously injuring two other members of the bomb disposal team. Göttingen experienced a number of Allied bombing attacks during WWII, but the majority of the town was not heavily damaged. |
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