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Guitarro

C. Peter Chen — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:00:00

Constructed in Wisconsin, United States, submarine USS Guitarro was transited to sea down the Mississippi River to New Orleans, Louisiana, United States in Feb 1944. She operated out of Balboa, Panama Canal Zone in Mar 1944 before heading to the Pacific Theater of Operations. Her first war patr...

Battle of Vienna

C. Peter Chen — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:00:00

By the end of Mar 1945, Soviet troops had overran the territory of the First Slovak Republic, ie. the eastern half of occupied Czechoslovakia. Although the Soviet forces were now ready to concentrate on Berlin, Germany, Joseph Stalin observed that there was no risk that the Anglo-Americans would...

Current and Upcoming WW2 Movies

C. Peter Chen — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:00:00

Although many African-Americans had donned the uniforms of the US military, they faced challenges from their own countrymen that were great as the war itself. Red Tails focused on the stories of the Tusk...

Report on Liverpool

C. Peter Chen — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:00:00

USSR	Reference No.: 3/[illegible]/T1633 Issued: /14/5/1964 Copy No.: 200

IRIS REPORTS AFTER VISITING LIVERPOOL (1940) From: LONDON To: MOSCOW No: 8**

1 Aug 40

To ...

J7W Shinden

C. Peter Chen — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:00:00

The J7W Shinden ("Quaking Lightning") fighter design was developed to counter American high-altitude bombers. With a canard layout, this aircraft was equipped with a propeller in the rear of the aircraft, but it was also designed to be able to be retrofitted with a turbojet engine as this techno...

I-15

C. Peter Chen — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:00:00

The TsKB-3 prototype biplane fighter design was completed by Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov in 1933. After the maiden flight by test pilot V. P. Chkalov in Oct 1933, the design was placed in production in 1934 under the designation I-15 "Chaika" ("Seagull", due to the gulled upper wing). ...

Patton: A Genius for War

C. Peter Chen — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:09:01

So I am about 450 pages into USSRReference: 3/PPDT/T22 DICK'S VISIT TO GLOUCESTER AND BISTROL (1940) From: LONDON To: MOSCOW No: 765

15th July 1940

To JOHN [DZhON][1]. Yesterday I was in GLOUCESTER and BRISTOL. ...

Edinburgh

C. Peter Chen — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:00:00

HMS Edinburgh was one of the two ships of the Edinburgh-subclass of the Town-class light cruisers, which was the final subclass of the Town-class. Upon commissioning in mid-1939, she was assigned to the Home Fleet of the British Royal Navy and patrolled between Iceland and the Faroe Islands. In...

Caucasus Campaign

C. Peter Chen — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:00:00

On 25 Jul 1942, German troops captured Rostov-on-Don, Russia, opening the Caucasus region of southern Soviet Union, and the oil fields beyond at Maikop, Grozny, and ultimately Baku, to the Germans. Two days prior, Adolf Hitler issued a directive to launch such an operation into the Caucasus regi...

US Aircraft Production Statistics, Jul 1940-Aug 1945

C. Peter Chen — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:00:00

Aircraft Production by Manufacturer

Manufacturer

US Army Air Forces

US Navy and US Marine Corps

J2M Raiden

C. Peter Chen — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:00:00

The J2M Raiden land-based fighters were introduced into the Japanese Navy in Dec 1942. Designed by the engineer Jiro Horikoshi of A6M Zero fame, they were developed in response to the 1939 request for a new local defense interceptor. The first examples suffered issues with the engines, and the ...

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

C. Peter Chen — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:00:00

I had eyed The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich for a long time now, but its sheer size had always scared me off. With my long commutes these days, I had been listening to a lot of audio books to make my lengthy drives productive, and thought there was no better time for me to give it a s...

Howitzer Motor Carriage M8 'Scott'

C. Peter Chen — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:00:00

Early in 1942 the US armoured force issued a requirement for a close support tank to work with medium tank battalions. To satisfy this demand the Cadillac Division of General Motors Corporation of Detroit, Michigan, United States took their M5 "Stuart VI" light tank and modified it to mount a 75...

British, Russian, and German Interests in the Balkans and the Mediterranean

C. Peter Chen — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:00:00

USSR

Ref. No: 3/NBF/T1456 (of 27/6/1962) Issued: 2/8/1966 Copy No: 201

5TH RE-ISSUE BRITISH, RUSSIAN AND gERMAN INTERESTS IN THE BALKANS AND THE MEDITERRANEAN (1940)

From:	LONDON
To:	MOSCOW...