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Professional psychologist, father of four, musician, modeler, lecturer. Tired.
My modeling defaults are building dioramas and WWII aircraft. Enjoy WW2 history, reading, single malt scotch whisky (without the 'e'), music, good food, bit of philosophy, and general history.
G.I’s at Battle of Đắk Tô, Vietnam, November, 1967.
On November 3rd, 1942 eighteen thousand Jews were shot dead in Majdanek, Poland. Rounded up in groups of 100 they were lined up beside trenches and murdered. It seems hard to [...]
Howard Hughes' 'Spruce Goose' flew for the first and only time today in 1947. The Hercules (H4) is the largest flying boat ever built, and up until 2018 had the largest wingspan of any aircraft that has ever flown. Nicknamed the Spruce [...]
The US detonated the world’s first thermonuclear bomb, ‘’Ivy Mike”, on November 1st, 1953 on an island in the Enewetak Atoll, South Pacific.
SS 188 ‘Sargo’ (the lead ship for her name) underway during her trials off [...]
Members/children of the Gioventù Italiana del Littorio (GIL) (Italian Youth of the Lictor), the youth movement of the National Fascist Party of Italy, during a practice drill. October 31st, 1939.
31st October, 1940 is the ‘official’ [...]
On October 30th, 1938 Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre, New York City, staged a radio adaptation of the H. G. Wells novel 'The War of the Worlds' in an "as live" format that fooled at least some Americans into believing that [...]
US Coast Guards help a damaged PB2Y Coronado after losing a wing float on landing in Jamaica Bay, New York City, 29 Oct 1943.
Infantry of 51st Highland Division and Sherman tanks near Udenhout, Holland, 29 October 1944.
American troops [...]
Following the theme of downed Battle of Britain aircraft, here is the first Luftwaffe plane to be brought down on British soil.
The Heinkel was flying with a Luftwaffe squadron who had been dispatched to destroy Royal Navy vessels in the [...]
After a few days of focus on the Pacific theatre, there's something of a Battle of Britain theme to begin today.
The Messerschmitt Bf 109 E (Oberleutnant Karl Fischer) shot down in Windsor Great Park, London.
Another BF109E - 'White [...]
A momentous day for iModelers. One of the truly great fighters of World War II, the P-51 was first flown today on 26 October 1940. At Mines Field, Los Angeles, California (now, Los Angeles International Airport), test pilot Vance Breese [...]
John Basilone. On 25th October (and the hours before and after) in Guadalcanal Basilone transcended the human condition when he held a gun placement with his small team against 3.000 Japanese. His heroics in holding a crucial position [...]
