Military History

Adm. Sir Max Horton and Western Approaches Command: Turning the tide in the Battle of the Atlantic (Defense Media Network)

Adolf Hitler's 'lost fleet' found in Black Sea Telegraph By Jasper Copping Last Updated: 1:52am GMT 04/02/2008 The final resting place of three German U-boats, nicknamed "Hitler's lost fleet", has been found at the bottom of the Black Sea. The submarines had been carried 2,000 miles overland from Germany to attack Russian shipping during the Second World War, but were scuttled as the war neared its end. Now, more than 60 years on, explorers have located the flotilla of three submarines off the coast of Turkey. The vessels, including one once commanded by Germany's most successful U-boat ace, formed part of the 30th Flotilla of six submarines, taken by ro…

Ahoy, there! Intrepid gets 'green light' to return Thursday By Bill Hutchinson DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Thursday, October 2nd 2008, 12:45 AM Buffed and bolstered, a refurbished Intrepid is ready to end its two-year hiatus Thursday and retake its proud position on Manhattan's West Side. With a fresh coat of battleship gray paint and a brass band playing on its flight deck, the legendary World War II aircraft carrier is set to be towed up the Hudson this morning in a splashy return to Pier 86. "Right now, it's a green light," Bill White, president of the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, said Wednesday night, cautiously eying the weather reports. He w…

Air Dominance from Normandy to the Bulge (Air Force Magazine, February 2013)

Air Force One: A History of Presidential Air Travel (Defense Media Network)

CV32: Hard to believe in some ways that UAVs are old enough to constitute "military history", but there it is. Air Force UAVs: The Secret History This comes by way of Bill Sweetman at Aviation Week's Ares Blog, who offers this synopsis: Tales from the Crypt: Secret UAVs Tales From The Crypt - Secret UAVs Posted by Bill Sweetman at 7/19/2010 1:07 AM CDT Click-of-the-month-club selection at Ares is Tom Ehrhard's report on the history of UAVs in the US Air Force, just published by the Mitchell Institute. It is based on Ehrhard's unpublished 1000-plus-page thesis on the subject, and sheds new light on many programs - some of which were, at the time, close…

With harpoon getting quite good for WW2 type actions (and a few good databases available for download) I often play in this era but wonder what were typical compositions of air groups attacking surface targets, shipping and land based Any one got info handy?

Air Power Lessons from the Korean War (Defense Media Network)

From Air Force Magazine [excerpt]

From http://www.airforce-magazine.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2012/September%202012/0912kargil.aspx [excerpt]

Airport named for WWII ace Pappy Boyington Posted : Thursday Aug 9, 2007 5:48:03 EDT COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho — After more than a year of debate, the local airport has been renamed to honor the late Gregory H. “Pappy” Boyington, one of the most decorated U.S. military pilots in World War II. Marines Corps veterans shouted “oo-rah” in joy and thanks after Kootenai County commissioners voted 2-0 to approve the name Coeur d’Alene Airport-Pappy Boyington Field. Area Marine Corps veterans pushed for the renaming, calling the Medal of Honor recipient a “hero’s hero” whose name on the north Idaho airport could draw more attention to history and military veterans. …

Only if some of you has missed it, an imaginative and terrible weapon: http://www.saairforce.co.za/the-airforce/w...s/33/alpha-bomb

hello pooners, by searching a file on the hard disk where i stock all my archives, i noticed two pdf enigmatically named "np4" and "np20". My natural curiosity helping, the files were opened before i even asked myself what could been those files. the titles soon appeared so much attractive that i decided to share them with you but after a search on Google i noticed that these files were not available online anymore so i uploaded them to allow you to enjoy what seems to be a very interesting for any alternate modern military history enthusiast here they are: Global War Game: The First Five Years Global War Game: Second Series, 1984-1988 Naval War…

Not sure if this is the right forum...I apologize in advance if I should have posted this elsewhere... What happens if war broke out in Germany, c. 1984, and the Soviets ended up using their "Seven Days to the Rhine" plan... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_to_the_River_Rhine At the end of the seven days, the Soviets have "won" in that they now occupy most of Germany. Parts of Western Germany have been destroyed, along with with most of Denmark and Poland, but France and Italy have been left untouched and the U.K. has only been hit with conventional weapons. (Lots of them, but just conventional ones.) Aside from naval actions, in which nuclear cruise missil…

Book review: American Ulysses: The Rehabilitation of an American Hero (Strategy Bridge) Sounds like a good summer read. On the list it goes ...

Yesterday, we had a 101-st anniversary of Dreadnought hoax - a practical joke by a Bloomsbury Group, beautifly portrayed by Robert K. MAssie in "Dreadnought" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreadnought_hoax

Another view in the ill-fated 1944 Exercise Tiger: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/475351/The-tragedy-of-Slapton-Sands-The-real-story-of-that-terrible-night

Before the darker "Aggressor Gray", there appears to have been a two tone pattern for US naval aircraft, a white bottom side and a lighter than aggressor gray "gray" on top. Can anyone give me examples of Testor Model Master paint to replicate that USN gray of the guessing mid 70's to late eighties?

Very interesting and scenario fodder: https://m.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/missions-secret-australian-submarines-cold-war-revealed.html

Very interesting and scenario fodder: https://m.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/missions-secret-australian-submarines-cold-war-revealed.html