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Adolf Hitler • Allies • Augustus Daymond • Axis • Blenheims • Distinguished Flying Cross • Eagle Squadron • European Theater • Fighter Ace • Hawker Hurricane • luftwaffe • Messerschmitt • Movies • Royal Air Force • Supermarine Spitfire • William Dunn • WWII

William R. Dunn: Eagle Squadron Pilot

5 days ago
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American William R. Dunn was the primary Eagle Squadron pilot to shoot down a German plane in World Warfare II. by David Alan Johnson “I jammed the throttle...

Japanese troops make their way through tall grass in the Burmese jungle, some sporting camouflage covering on their backs.
Allies • Axis • Battle of Salamanca • british military history • Burma • Chindits • Hawker Hurricane • Indian National Army (INA) • Japan • Japanese • Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell • Movies • Napoleon Bonaparte • Peninsular Campaign • Royal Air Force • Supermarine Spitfire • U.S. Army Air Corps • William Slim • Winston Churchill • WWII

That Great Bitter Battle of Kohima

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An understrength hodgepodge of British and Commonwealth troops held off a whole Japanese division through the Battle of Kohima. by Robert Barr Smith The 2...

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Bernard Montgomery • Bletchley Park • Blitzkrieg • brian urquhart • british military history • British Royal Navy • European Theater • General F.A.M. “Boy” Browning • General Roy Urquhart • General Walter Bedell Smith • Miles Dempsey • Movies • Operation Market-Garden • PIAT gun • Rhine River • SHAEF • Supermarine Spitfire • Waffen-SS • Walter Model • WWII

Warfare History Network » Arnhem’s Other Urquhart

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By Jon Diamond The Hollywood army movie devotee will keep in mind the start of the epic, A Bridge Too Far, when a younger British airborne officer named Fuller...