‘Gardening’ mission was the term given to RAF sorties to lay sea mines by aircraft whereby bombers would fly in relatively low and plant parachute assisted mines that would sit at a prescribed depth, just below the surface of the [...]

By 1944, the battleship Tirpitz, sister ship to the Bismarck, had long been a coveted target of the British Admiralty. Just the existence of the battleship alone was enough to influence the British Fleet’s strategy and tactical thinking, [...]

Iconic photo of Kittyhawk Mark I with the RAF 112 Squadron, taxiing through the treacherously uneven scrub of the Libyan desert on 2nd of April, 1942. The groundcrew on the wing is helping guide the pilot around potential unseen obstacles [...]

The battleship USS Idaho (BB-42) shelling Okinawa on April 1st, 1945. Seafire III landing aboard an unidentified carrier on April 1st, part of Operation Iceberg at Okinawa. Interestingly for modelers, the lighter tone of the aerilon and [...]

Today in 1945 the RAF sent a force of 469 aircraft from Bomber Groups 1, 6 and 8 comprising of 361 Lancasters, 100 Halifaxes and 8 Mosquitoes. The brief was to attack the Blohm and Voss shipyards at Hamburg where “a new type of U Boat [...]

Jagdtiger 131 (Panzerjager Abteilung 653) knocked out in Schwetzingen, Germany, on March 30th, 1945. US Navy K-class airship K-111 on exercises with Escort Carrier USS Rudyerd Bay (CVE-81) off San Diego, California, on 30th March, 1943. [...]

March 29th is officially the ‘National Vietnam War Veterans Day’ and today, on March 29th, 1975, the last Allied troop left South Vietnam. However you feel about that war, it is important to recognise those who fought there and the [...]

Any landing you walk away from... A F9F Panther of VF-64 (Freelancers) crashes the barrier aboard the USS Yorktown (CVA-10) off Korea, March 28th, 1954... The photo above shows the mothballed Yorktown at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in [...]