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He also bombed Hamburg, watching the firestorm develop, and recalled saying prayers for the people below

A 102-year-old former bomber pilot has returned to remember fallen WW2 comrades at RAF Downham Market.

The book “Well, Doc, You’re In” is a fascinating glimpse within Dyson's vast and diverse legacy.

"Max Kirby was working for Southern Railway in Atlanta prior to being inducted into the Army in February 1943."

The World War II era saw the development and scaled use of high-impact war planes for the first time, ushering in a new era of warfare.

Enduring mythology about these mass civilian slaughters warps thinking about U.S. militarism, writes Brian McGlinchey. By Brian McGlinchey starkrealities.substack.com The anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki present an opportunity to demolish a cornerstone myth of

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

Today of all days should be remembered! It is a sweltering Sunday and 78 years ago today the US dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan which some say made the war come to an end. There has been a debate lately around the use of these bombs....were they truly necessary? The anniversaries of the…

1 post published by lobotero on August 6, 2023

More than 300,000 German civilians were killed by Allied strategic bombing in World War II. It was thought that it would break the German economy, but when U.S. economists surveyed its material consequences, they found, to their surprise, that it had impeded German industry only very little. Strategic bombing was, in the words of J.K. Galbraith, “perhaps the greatest miscalculation of the war.” The fact that little was gained by it should compound our horror, though, in the scope of the war ...