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MARTIN DEBATTISTA speaks to Lara Zammit about his new book on the role of Maltese newspapers during World War II. LZ: The Front Page on the Front Line is a new

Pat Pattle's name is not something that you would commonly encounter whenever we talk about WWII, and what's surprising was with his amount of victories as a fighter pilot, he should be talked about more.

Just like all those short-term road-widening projects… we will simply postpone the point of gridlock congestion for a few more years (until we simply run out of underground space; like we’re already done on the surface…)

The mural, which was discovered behind old wallpaper at Natalie Mansfields home in Bispham, Blackpool, depicts two types of fighter planes buzzing around an aircraft carrier.

Nazi Germanys Would-Be Wonder Weapon Was an Epic Fail Germany wanted a fighter with a longer range. Instead, it built Frankensteins monster that was too big to maneuver.  Heres What You Need To Remember: There is never a free lunch in aircraft design. Carrying all that extra fuel meant a bigger, heavier aircraft. A bigger, heavier aircraft required two engines and two propellers, which added even more weight. The result was that the Bf 110 weighed more than four tons, or twice that of the Bf 1...

Aniplex Japan is handling the fall 2020 original anime project Warlords of Sigrdrifa with their home video releases. They’ve set out the details for their twelve-episode series in that it’s getting a six-disc release that began on December 23rd, 2020. The first volume DVD and Blu-ray are priced at 7,500 yen and 8,500 yen respectively. The remaining volumes are priced at 6,500 yen on DVD and 7,500 yen on Blu-ray each.  With the sixth and final set coming up on May 26th, 2021, we now have a...

The sketchy concept failed to address the logistics of landing German troops in Ireland. Heres What You Need to Know: The IRA hoped it could secure military assistance from Germany. Acentury after the Irish War of Independence, the issue of Ireland’s partition still inspires contention as London seeks to withdraw from the European Union while preserving Northern Ireland’s open border with the Republic of Ireland—one of the important fruits of the Good Friday accords which largely ended t...

The combination aircraft was decent, but was eventually outclassed by Allied warplanes. Key point: This heavy fighter-bomber was made to solve a certain problem. However, it would not be able to hold its own throughout the entire war. In the mid-1930s, Nazi Germany had a problem. Its twin-engined medium bombers, such as the Heinkel 111, had a range of perhaps 1,500 miles. However, the Luftwaffes single-engined fighter plane, the Messerschmitt Bf 109, had a range of only 400 miles (it wasnt unt...

Aniplex Japan is handling the fall 2020 original anime project Warlords of Sigrdrifa with their home video releases. They’ve set out the details for their twelve-episode series in that it’s getting a six-disc release that began on December 23rd, 2020. The first volume DVD and Blu-ray are priced at 7,500 yen and 8,500 yen respectively. The remaining volumes are priced at 6,500 yen on DVD and 7,500 yen on Blu-ray each.  With the third set coming up on February 24th, 2021, we now have a look...