Category - Supermarine Spitfire

American Jacqueline Cochran blazed a trail in aviation and contributed to the Allied war effort.
Air Transport Command (ATC) • Avenger Field • B-26 • Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress • Boeing B-29 Superfortress • Douglas C-47 • Howard Hughes • Jacqueline Cochran • Lockheed • Movies • Pacific Theater • Supermarine Spitfire • U.S. Army Air Corps • Women's Air Force Service Pilots • WWII

Blazing A Trail For Women In Aviation Service

3 months ago

American Jacqueline Cochran blazed a path in aviation and contributed to the Allied conflict effort. by Michael D. Hull On September 28, 1939, the day after...

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Albert Speer • Boeing B-29 Superfortress • Bomber Harris • British Royal Navy • Dresden • Eighth Air Force • German RADAR • luftwaffe • Movies • Ploesti • Royal Air Force • Supermarine Spitfire • Tokyo • U.S. Army Air Corps • Warsaw • WWII

Warfare History Network » “Bomber” Harris and His Royal Air Force Bomber Command

3 months ago

Controversial ‘Bomber’ Harris formed the British strategic air offensive towards Nazi Germany as head of the Royal Air Pressure Bomber Command. By...

Winston Churchill
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Warfare History Network » Winston Churchill’s Two Battles

3 months ago

Winston Churchill’s Britain not solely needed to fend off the highly effective Luftwaffe but in addition defeat isolationism in America. by David Alan...

The Australian Wirraway was forced into a role for which it was not intended during World War II.
Allies • Australia • Axis • Battle of Britain • Battle of Buna • Bristol Beaufighter • De Havilland Mosquito IV Series II • Distinguished Flying Cross • Hawker Hurricane • Hurricane • Japan • Japanese • League of Nations • Mitsubishi • Movies • NA-16 Wirraway • New Britain • New Guinea Campaign • Pacific Theater • rabaul • Robert Eichelberger • Royal Air Force • Supermarine Spitfire • WWII

NA-16 Wirraway: From Trainer to Fighter

8 months ago

The Australian Wirraway was pressured into a task for which it was not meant throughout World Struggle II. By Glenn Barnett By the mid-1930s many individuals...

The U.S. 29th infantry division fought its way ashore in Normandy on the bloodiest of D-Day beaches.
1st Infantry Division • 29th Infantry Division • Battle of Long Island • Charles H. Gerhardt • D-Day • Distinguished Service Cross • Dwight D. Eisenhower • Eighth Air Force • General Omar Bradley • Movies • Norman "Dutch" Cota • Normandy • omaha beach • Operation Overlord • Pointe Du Hoc • Republic P-47 Thunderbolt • Sherman Tank • Supermarine Spitfire • USS Augusta • USS Texas • WWII

Blue and Gray at Omaha Beach

9 months ago

The U.S. 29th infantry division fought its means ashore in Normandy on the bloodiest of D-Day seashores. By Main Basic Michael Reynolds The U.S. 29th Infantry...

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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

9 months ago

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

9 months ago

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

9 months ago

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...