Incendiary Behavior
T 1 Monroe Leaflet Bomb British Air Minister Arthur Harris watched London burn for the roof of his offices on King Charles Street. He …
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Incendiary Behavior
RAF Pummels Essen With Incendiaries British Air Minister Arthur Harris watched London burn for the roof of his offices on King Charles Street. He …
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“Open The Podbay Doors HAL….AI Shoots Down USAF Pilot In Trials”
WASHINGTON: In a 5 to 0 sweep, an AI ‘pilot’ developed by Heron Systems beat one of the Air Force’s top F-16 fighter pilots in …
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Roswell Deathbed Confessions. First Account.
In 1947 the US Air Force revealed that a flying saucer had crashed near Roswell Air Force Base in New Mexico. This is the …
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Lazy Dogs
A Lazy Dog was also called a Red Dot Bomb or a Yellow Dog Bomb is a thumb sized unguided piece of lead kinetic projectile typically about 2 …
The Amazing Cluster That Invading Sicily Became
From Rick Atkinson’s Day of Battle. “Ships wallowed like treasure laden galleons on the Spanish Main. The American convoys alone carried more than …
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Dresden
February 13, 14, 15. In four waves, 722 British heavy bombers and 427 USAAF assets dropped about 4000 tons of high explosive and incendiary munitions …
Letter to Mom
In Rich Atkinson’s An Army at Dawn, British Soldiers recovered a glasses case from a dead, pilot. In it was this note: …
The Horrors of Allied Bombing.
In the Spring of 1945 a massive effort was made to wipe out Germany’s last oil capacity. 500 Allied attacks on 130 targets reduced …
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The Monroe Bomb
The Monroe Bomb was a propaganda leaflet distribution device dropped from Allied heavy bombers. Named after it inventor: Capt. James Monroe during World War II. …
D-Day Details.
On the way to Normandy, the British were more than generous, adding to the US food allotment 240,000,000 pounds of potatoes, 2.4 million …
Reading from The Guns At last Light. The War in Western Europe 1944- 1945, by Rick Atkinson. Part II.
The saying in England was that the problem with Americans is that they are “over sexed, overfed and over here.” My father served …