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On This Day…November 7th.

by david leigh-smith on November 7, 2018 · in News · 13 ≡

Originally a passenger ship for operating on the Black Sea, the hospital ship 'Armenia' was sunk on 7th November 1941 by a German torpedo armed Heinkel He 111 while evacuating civilians, hospital staff, and wounded soldiers from the [...]

On This Day…November 6th.

by david leigh-smith on November 6, 2018 · in News · 20 ≡

A stunning Department of Navy photo showing an aerial view of the USS Oaklahoma after being refloated at Pearl Harbour. Taken 6th November, 1943. Been a lot of posts about Glenn Miller on iModeler recently here and today is the [...]

On This Day…November 5th.

by david leigh-smith on November 5, 2018 · in News · 5 ≡

Gunner Kenneth Bratton being removed from the turret of his TBF Avenger aboard the USS Saratoga following a successful strike on Rabaul, 5 November 1943... With Armistice day almost upon us, this photo from Nov 5th , 1918 shows how the US [...]

On This Day…4th November.

by david leigh-smith on November 4, 2018 · in News · 8 ≡

General Wilhelm von Thoma surrenders to Montgomery at the 8th Army HQ after the second Battle of El-Alamein on November 4th, 1942. Von Thoma unwittingly gave away the existence of the V1rocket program while a POW, leading to the mass [...]

On This Day...November 3rd.

by david leigh-smith on November 3, 2018 · in News · 12 ≡

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 [...]

On This Day...November 2nd.

by david leigh-smith on November 2, 2018 · in News · 13 ≡

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 [...]

On This Day…November 1st.

by david leigh-smith on November 1, 2018 · in News · 13 ≡

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 [...]

On This Day…October 31st.

by david leigh-smith on October 31, 2018 · in News · 11 ≡

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 This Day…October 30th.

by david leigh-smith on October 30, 2018 · in News · 7 ≡

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 [...]

On This Day…October 29th.

by david leigh-smith on October 29, 2018 · in News · 6 ≡

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 [...]