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On This Day… October 28th

by david leigh-smith on October 28, 2018 · in News · 13 ≡

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 [...]

On This Day…October 27th

by david leigh-smith on October 27, 2018 · in News · 6 ≡

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 [...]

On This Day...October 26th.

by david leigh-smith on October 26, 2018 · in News · 14 ≡

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 [...]

On This Day...October 25th.

by david leigh-smith on October 25, 2018 · in News · 14 ≡

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 [...]

On This Day...October 24th.

by david leigh-smith on October 24, 2018 · in News · 12 ≡

One of the most shocking and enduring images from World War 2 was taken on October 24th, 1943. Sergeant Len Siffleet was an Australian Commando captured by partisan tribesman in Papua New Guinea and handed over to the Japanese who [...]

On This Day...October 23rd

by david leigh-smith on October 23, 2018 · in News · 6 ≡

The Nieuport 17 (No. 1831) of Lt Joseph Maria of Squadron N 77 captured by the Germans, October 23, 1916... Medic James Parks of the 133rd Infantry Regiment carrying a wounded German through the streets of St. Angelo d'Alife, Italy, on [...]

On This Day 22nd October...

by david leigh-smith on October 22, 2018 · in News · 10 ≡

The battle of Stalingrad was the largest conflict in the history of warfare. Around two million people were killed, wounded, or taken prisoner (read, killed) in the five month German offensive and Russian defence. This photo was taken on [...]

On This Day…October 21st.

by david leigh-smith on October 21, 2018 · in News · 11 ≡

The Dornier Do X (the largest and most powerful flying boat in the world) broke the world record for passengers carried when on 21st October, 1929 she flew with 169 people on board. Because of its massive size passengers were actually [...]

On This Day…October 20th

by david leigh-smith on October 20, 2018 · in News · 15 ≡

A TBD-1 Devastator of Torpedo Squadron Six (operating from the Enterprise) drops a Mark 13 torpedo during exercises in the Pacific, October 20. General McCarthy arrives at Red Beach, Leyte, October 20, 1944. Historians are divided over [...]

On This Day…October 19th

by david leigh-smith on October 19, 2018 · in News · 9 ≡

The USS Ticonderoga leaving San Diego for Vietnam on this day in in 1966. While in Vietnam the Ticonderoga launched 11,650 combat missions. She was awarded her second Navy Unit Commendation for services in that conflict. A year earlier, [...]