world war ii

  1. Graham1973

    A guidance system using Organic Intelligence, just not Human

    A crazy sounding idea, but it actually worked, it just never went operational and never will... View: https://youtu.be/65CUBgoAcMg?si=9P27Ybf4IP73GRpQ
  2. robinbird

    Pre Operation Varsity

    Dad spent 1943 at Sherburn-in-Elemet photographing top secret trials of gliders for major landings such as Operation Varsity on this day March 24 1945. The secret trials were not so much about the gliders but how they handled carrying troops, panniers , field guns and even tanks (in...
  3. hesham

    Italian Submarine of 1940s ?

    From, La Science et la vie 1946-05-01, what was this ?.
  4. Grey Havoc

    Last known Battle of Britain fighter pilot passes away

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg1z42pkj8o https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0318/1502596-hemingway/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/18/john-paddy-hemingway-last-pilot-battle-of-britain-dies-105/...
  5. E

    French aircraft armament (guns, bombs, other...) in the interwar and WW2

    Hi everyone, I am currently finishing to upload my early 2025 research in the French archives to my Google Drive repertories. Yesterday, I completed the upload of archive number GR 9 N 281, which contains notices of various developments between 1933 and 1938 (mid 1938 tops); including the...
  6. YourChair

    Mythical 1941 Japanese CA specification for the Maru 6 Plan

    This "design" apparently did exist as a specification for the Maru 6 program -- but since the plan was pretty much shelved with the defeat at Midway, nothing came of it. Assumedly, most (if not all) records of its existence were destroyed. Certainly, no official drawings survived (if they ever...
  7. Nik

    B-29: spare engine ferry ?

    First, my apologies: Recent eye-surgery has temporarily hobbled my Google_Fu... ( APHont and Ctrl-Scroll zoom for the win...) IIRC, US sent but one (1) B-29 to UK to astonish and, yes, boost morale... If deployed in numbers, such as for Silver-plate / Saddletree delivery, some spares might...
  8. S

    Propeller Twilight by Tony Buttler

    Can anybody recommend this book? https://www.keymodelworld.com/article/crecy-publishinghikoki-propeller-twilight
  9. T

    Popular singer and respected aviation writer Herbert Leonard passes at age 80

    Beloved singer and unparalleled French aerospace historian/writer died yesterday, the 2nd of March 2025, at 80 after a long battle with cancer: For those that are unfamiliar with his top selling history of Soviet and German aircraft, might you find in the below titles a glimpse of what was his...
  10. Grey Havoc

    Irish Naval Service / Irish Navy

  11. PretzelDarter

    Tiny Tim Rocket Zero-Length Launch Rack

    Hello, Described in both Naval Fighters #75: Grumman F7F Tigercat and F7F Tigercat in Action is a zero-length launch rack for launching the 11.75" Tiny Tim rocket without need for a drop beforehand, developed at NOTS China Lake and intended for the F7F. Evidently it seems it's only for the...
  12. E

    Hudson Mk.V Defensive Armaments

    Hello, recently I've come across a 1942 Data Sheet for the Lockheed Hudson Mk.V aircraft, and in this sheet it lists the aircraft having: * 2 x Fixed forward Firing .303s (500 rounds per gun) * 2 x .303s in Dorsal turret (2000 rounds per gun) * 1 x .303 in a ventral Position (1000 rounds per...
  13. Owens Z

    Canada's naval strategy?

    [I have taken the liberty of moving this discussion to its own new thread, to avoid stepping on the toes of Oberon_706's Australia-oriented thread.] Dilandu points out that Canada had 2 coasts to defend in the first half of the 20th century, although I believe that was considered in Ottawa to...
  14. DWG

    RN 20Kt Fast Oiler, 1945 Programme

    In reading "Diary of A Wartime Naval Constructor", DNC Sir Stanley Goodall's wartime diary, I can identify most of the ships referred to, but there are repeated references to a 20Kt Fast Oiler, probably for the 1945 Programme, where I'm coming up blank. 1942 P136. 11 November: … Bateson...
  15. W

    Norrh American Aviation Fuel Tank

    Hello, , I have an old 80 gal fuel tank from North American Aviation Inc. It is from the Engeneering and Experimental Division. Its about 4 ft long X 2 ft tall. X 1 ft wide. It says Model SOC-1, or I. Part number 17-48002. Contract No. 41257. Material SS AL.ALLOY. marked with a NA 6 in a...
  16. V

    Special transport supplies to isolated japanese garrisons WW2

    Hello, i'm looking to experimental projects for supplying isolated japanese garrisons in ww2. For example: Special containers used with submarines. Unkato, Tokugata Unkato, Unpoto. Special waterproof landing craft on after deck of submarines. How the supply were stoked on the deck ? With a net...
  17. H

    USAAF WW2 Unguided Glide Bomb GB-1 (and guided developments by USAAF/Navy)

    Hi everyone, I just came across this current video on the unguided glide bomb GB-1 experimentally used by the USAAF in WW2: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ij1FjUwi-E It wasn't very successful, but I think it shows an interesting technical approach to the problem, and the video also...
  18. Graham1973

    Everything old is new again, reopening the airfields of Tinian.

    Things in the Pacific seem to be moving closer to a Sino-US war. View: https://youtu.be/Bck_CHmtWPI?si=lO_Glm0Ud3HFUCt7 View: https://youtu.be/CW1TYDVBSmI?si=7Cixue4hcIjrBSmU
  19. S

    Information on the 1930s B bomb?

    Hi people, Recently I was reading David K Brown's work on British naval design ( Nelson to Vanguard: Warship Design and Development 1923-45), and here this description about what he referred to as "B bomb" caught my attention. Unfortunately I could not find much information about it...
  20. Grey Havoc

    Ansett Australia

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqcc2ActCCU
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