Months before the 1939 invasion of Poland, Hitler and the German press accused the Polish of performing violent “ethnic cleansing” of Germans that were living in Poland. Adolf Hitler also ran several false flag operations such as the Gleiwitz incident, where he dressed his own men in Polish ...
In the Battle of Britain, the Royal Air Force known as the RAF defeated the German Air Force, known as the Luftwaffe. As a result, Hitler halted his plan to invade Britain. By 1941, the US Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act which provided aid to Great Britain. In June 1941, Hitler ...
Lee volunteered for the RAF in WWII and became a Flying Officer. His time as a pilot was short lived as he was soon diagnosed with a failure of his optic nerve and was grounded. He was transferred to RAF intelligence, the position he would remain in for the rest of the war. He fough...
lean, opinionated, and looking perpetually pissed off about something, Charlie was all business. He didn’t mince his words either, speaking in that clipped, point-blank manner of the military. He could have been a character from a Pat Conroy...
A RAF Thunderbolt in Burma. (Image source: WikiCommons) More than 20 nations used the P-47 While theUnited States was the P-47’s principle operator, Thunderbolts served in a number of other countries’ air forces as well. More than 800 went to Britain and Commonwealth powers during the...