In April of 1915 soldiers from the British Army and Commonwealth, including the Australia-New Zealand Army Corps, and French Army and Empire, landed on the Gallipoli penninsula in an effort to open the route to Russia and seize Constantinople. There they faced Turkish troops from the Ottoman Empire in a brutal campaign fought in rugged terrain featuring extensive trench systems separated at certain points by as few as 10 to 20 yards. An ongoing archaeological survey has uncovered not only
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Steve Mercatante
on: Nov 8 2011 - 3:04pm
Review Type: amphibous warfare, ANZAC, Australia, Constantinople, Gallipoli, invasion, littoral, Naval, New Zealand, Ottoman Empire, WWI, WWII
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Steve Mercatante
on: Nov 6 2011 - 4:11pm
World War II is widely rememberd as the most expensive war ever fought by the United States. In constant dollars, World War II's portion of our nation's GDP reached 35.8% at its height, and ultimately cost a staggering $4.1 trillion in FY2011 dollars. Many have long thought that, short of a feared WWIII, it would hardly be likely that today's unconventional wars could approach such costs.
Review Type: Costs of War, Economics of War, War in Iraq, WWII
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Steve Mercatante
on: Nov 4 2011 - 9:45pm
Lying underwater in the English Channel off the coast of Kent, United Kingdom is the world's last known surviving Do-17 bomber. In a joint attempt the Royal Air Force Museum and Imperial College of London are attempting to salvage the well preserved Do-17 - found in 2010 after sands shifted that had previously hidden the bomber, and have now left it exposed to seawater that can corrode the aircraft very quickly.
Review Type: Air War, Aircraft, Battle of Britain, Bomber, Do-17, Luftwaffe, RAF, Western European Theater of Operations, WWII
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Steve Mercatante
on: Nov 1 2011 - 4:38pm
Late last week the USS Iowa (BB-61), the lead ship in the final class of US battleships ever built, began a voyage from Suisun Bay, California that will ultimately end in Los Angeles - where she will serve as a floating museum.
Laid down in June 1940 and commissioned in February 1943 the Iowa weighed in at 45,000 tons, was 887 feet long and included a crew of over 2,750 officers and men.
Review Type: Battleship, Japan, Naval, Pacific Theater of Operations, US Navy, USS Iowa, War at Sea, World War II, Yamato
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Steve Mercatante
on: Oct 29 2011 - 12:56pm
Australian and New Zealand warships clearing World War II era munitions from the harbor at Rabaul have found what is believed to be a Japanese midget submarine. The wreck was found sitting upright on the sandy bottom at 180 feet underwater. Rabaul was one of the most important Japanese Naval bases during the War, and the site of sharp combat in January 1942 - when Japanese forces seized the harbor and associated military installations from Australian forces.
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Steve Mercatante
on: Oct 28 2011 - 2:57pm
Polish authorities have ordered a new investigation into the crimes against humanity committed at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. The Germans murdered an estimated 1.5 million people at Auschwitz, located near Krakow, until the Red Army libereated the camp late in January 1945.
The crimes committed at Auschwitz were central to Nazi Germany's plans to create lebensraum in Eastern Europe - to be done mostly at the expense of the Slavic and Jewish people, though hundreds of
Review Type: Auschwitz, concentration camp, Generalplan Ost, genocide, Heydrich, Himmler, Holocaust, Jews, lebensraum, Nazi Germany, Poland, Slav, SS, World War II
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Steve Mercatante
on: Oct 26 2011 - 10:58pm
Brigadier General Tadeusz Sawicz died on 19 October at a nursing home in Toronto, Canada - he was 97 years old and was the last surviving Polish pilot to have fought with the RAF during the 1940 Battle of Britain. Sawicz was one of 145 Polish pilots who fought with the RAF during the Battle of Britain and was credited with three kills during his service with the RAF.
Overall, The Battle of Britain represented a disaster for the Luftwaffe and a blow to the prestige of the Wehrmacht as a whole.
Review Type: 303 Squadron, Air War, Aircraft, Battle of Britain, Fighter, Poland, WWII
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Steve Mercatante
on: Oct 21 2011 - 7:53pm
Well over 6,000 ships sunk during the Second World War sit on the bottom of oceans and seas worldwide. After roughly 70 years of exposure to the elements many are raising concerns that these distingrating wrecks could release the oil mostly still contained in their hulls.
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Steve Mercatante
on: Oct 19 2011 - 2:06pm
An actual Second World War Enigma machine, used by Germany to encode its communications, was auctioned by Christie's on September 29, 2011. An electro-mechanical rotor cipher machine used to encrpyt and decrypt messages the Enigma was thought to be unbreakable, but of course it was not.
One of the great Allied advantages of the war was their ability to regularly intercept and read otherwise encoded German communications.
Review Type: Allies, Enigma Machine, Germany, Intelligence War, World War II
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Steve Mercatante
on: Jul 15 2011 - 12:38am
On March 24, 1945 USAAF (United States Army Air Force) Staff Sgt. Marvin Steinford's B-17 Bomber was hit by anti-aircraft fire over Hungary. As the plane fell to the earth Steinford bailed out - never to be seen again. Until now. After 66 years his remains have been found and he will finally be coming home to be put to rest near his home town of Keystone Iowa.
Review Type: Air War, Aircraft, Bomber, Western European Theater of Operations, World War II
