Hidden Nazi Train Secret, Forgotten Underground World

7-min biography: Jimmy Doolittle

I just read “I Could Never Be So Lucky Again,” the autobiography written by General James “Jimmy…

Stalingrad

23 August 1942–2 February 1943. Stalingrad’s worst luck was that it was named after Josef Stalin. It was a perfect town in Russia, a gem on…

The 9.3 Beijing V-Day Parade — a Chinese perspective

My name is Yinuo Li. I grew up in China, got my PhD in Molecular Biology in the US and worked for 10 years at McKinsy & Company, both in the US and China. In May 2015 I left McKinsey as a partner and became Director for the China Program…

England’s Many Tailless Monowing Prototypes.

It’s odd how creative the British aircraft designers were after World War I…

The Tiger tank vs. The KV-1 tank

Two iron beasts from World War II take center stage

On this new episode of tank versus tank, we look at the German Tiger I (yes, there is a Tiger II, but that is for another time) and how it stacks up against the Soviet response to the Tiger, the…

March 22, 1942 — The Long Road Back

March 22, 1942 — Malta — the most bombed island of World War 2.

DAD WAS A WWII DOOLITTLE RAIDER

My father’s name was Paul Francis Smith.

HE NEEDED A WAR TO FLY

Elmer Pankratz always wanted to fly, but in depression era America, that wasn’t going to happen for a small town boy of modest means.