world war ii

Hi, this Canadian company was formed in 1942,produced from Model 1 to 5 aircraft as in the text,and here is a two little known Projects,Model 7 & 9. Canadian Aircraft Since 1909 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Aircraft

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/WarshipPorn/comments/x80zhw/3500_x_2100the_proposed_but_never_built_cl154/ Incidentally the basis of the computer game World of Warships' Austin-class cruiser. If they had been built, they would have likely received the CLAA hull Hull classification symbol from...

Last year the Vickers Machine Gun Collection and Research uploaded several Summary Reports for the President of the Ordnance Board, the vast majority of them freely available. Although lacking detail (by their nature as summary reports) they cover the Aircraft Ordnance Fuses, Projectiles (Land...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fDnSQoneiE From the comments thread of the above video: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_buoy_(Luftwaffe)

Regulus and Ram were a 2 ship class of minelayers under construction in the Dutch east indies when the Japanese took over the colony. They were renamed Nankai and Nanshin, Nankai was completed as a powerful gunboat, but Nanshin was less heavily armed and not completed. Small note about the link...

yeah I bet you can't guess The I-351 and her sister sub the I-352 were laid down as flying boat tender submarines, but converted during construction to tanker subs. Original specifications, design docs and illustrations itt

The Ha-101 class submarines were laid down as transport submarines, but during construction were converted into tanker submarines, small submarine motherships/tenders, and radar picket subs. Any specifications or illustrations of the intended original design would be bussin...

The Ohama and her sister ship Okashi were laid down as target ships, successors to the Hakachi. Ohama was completed as an escort vessel, and Ohashi collided with Yamashio Maru and sunk before completion, but would have been given the same treatment. I can't find any illustrations of their...

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A9%A6%E8%A3%BD%E4%B8%AD%E6%88%A6%E8%BB%8A_%E3%83%81%E3%82%BB Given that there is one magazine listed as a source, and I don't have it to look into further, posting this here.

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9F%AD%E4%BA%8C%E5%8D%81%E7%B3%8E%E7%A0%B2#cite_note-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_97_ShinHoTo_Chi-Ha_medium_tank#Short_Barrel_120_mm_gun_tank https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9F%AD%E5%8D%81%E4%BA%8C%E7%B3%8E%E8%87%AA%E8%B5%B0%E7%A0%B2 This thing's big...

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220905/p2a/00m/0na/020000c?dicbo=v2-c68a3d101177a19f336252dfd46fdc77

Designed in 1942 by the American Ordnance Company, an old-established gun-making concern of Bridgeport, Connecticut, the M3 half-track carrier, known as the 40mm Gun Motor Carriage T68 (GMC T68) and featured unusual gun layout. The guns were placed, one above the other, a configuration with an...

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Messerschmitt Me 262 Development & Politics by Dan Sharp There are many myths surrounding the development of the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter. Its unparalleled performance is beyond doubt; easily able to outpace its opponents and possessing the firepower to shred them in seconds. Yet...

Hello, just found this link; I thought I would share its contents with you all: https://alternathistory.com/yurij-pasholok-orudie-pobolshe-na-tom-zhe-shassi/ And these were hiding in the comments, one is defintely the Schmalturm, the others, not sure :

About 6 months ago I came across mention of a Havoc variant known as the Havoc Pandora, or Havoc III It was built upon RAF Havoc Is but featured a 2000ft cable with an aerial mine attached. 20 units were converted and used by No.240 Flight (redesignated No.93 Sqn). Eventually they were converted...

Hello all. I am not sure if this post really belongs here or not, but I just found the photo below and I find the theoretical implications fascinating. It sure looks like a Panzer II turret with a 37mm gun. Sure enough, it is. This turret was used on the Atlantik Wall as a static defensive...

Perhaps one of the greatest what-ifs of post World War Two history is what would have happened if the US and UK had succeeded in getting the Atomic Bomb to work? President Truman and Curtis Le May's round the clock bombing of Japan drawing on the destruction of Dresden by the RAF and USAAF is...

Video might be of interest. Can't speak to its accuracy, but at least it doesn't seem too insane. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfio0VHXUmw

When the demand exceeded the capacity of Daimler, Ford Canada, in Windsor Ontario, begun production of a local derivative. The "Scout Car, Ford Mk.I", also called the "Lynx armoured car". Almost identical, it was one foot taller because of the Ford transmission. The Ford engine was more...