A flying ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during combat. [1 ] All Schnaufer's 121 victories were claimed during World War II, mostly against British four-engine bombers, [Note 1 ] for which…
The Z1 class had five 12.7 cm (5 in) guns (a rather standard caliber for the time). These were all shielded, in single mounts: Two superimposed forward, three aft incuding two facing aft, one superfiring, and one facing frorward, the…
That was one of the finest hours and most critical at the same time, of the Great old institution that built an Empire and protected it , the Royal Navy.
Ww2dbaseOn 27 Feb 1933, the Reichstag was set on fire, generally believed to be started by a Dutch communist. The propaganda machine of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, the National Socialist German Workers' Party or Nazi…