20th Century

11+ hour, 19+ min ago   (202+ words) A memorial has been held for two WW2 pilots who died in a plane crash after steering their Halifax bomber to a safe place to save it from hitting Wallingford. Flying officer John Wilding and Flight Sergeant John Andrew died on…...

2+ hour, 10+ min ago   (458+ words) by Connor Kerr | 28. Mai 2026 | Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt | 0 comments Bezogen auf: Myasishchev 3M (development of M-4 Molot / NATO "Bison") Erster Flug: 29 April 1981 — with external cargo, 6 January 1982 Max external payload: 50 tonnes Total Baikonur missions: ~150 Ersetzt durch: Antonov An-225 Mriya (1988) Erhaltene Flugzeugzellen: 2 (Zhukovsky…...

2+ hour, 20+ min ago   (129+ words) news.cgtn.com Retracing the Long March: Luding Bridge and the Red Army trail Walking the Red Army Trail in Luding, Sichuan, retraces the epic 120-kilometer march that changed the fate of a nation. 91 years ago, over 1,000 Red Army soldiers…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (474+ words) by Fortuna Leroy | 7 luglio 2026 | Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare | 0 comments The Valiant is the least glamorous of Britain’s three V-bombers. It is also the one that did the most, first. It worked exactly as intended. The Valiant flew in 1951 and…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (833+ words) by Connor Kerr | 5. Juni 2026 | Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt | 0 commentsTeile diese Geschichte The evening before, Sieber had written his will, leaving everything to his fiancée. Sixteen years before Yuri Gagarin, he was about to become the first human being to take…...

9+ hour, 12+ min ago   (706+ words) When the United States entered World War II, the Pentagon quickly bought up all the stocks it could find of.22LR target pistols—a.22-caliber handgun that fires a rifle-style cartridge—for training purposes. But the British Special Operations Executive was…...

11+ hour, 54+ min ago   (47+ words) Portrait of Colonel George S. Patton, Charleston lawyer, who commanded an Infantry Brigade at Droop Mountain Battle. Grandfather of World War II General. WV News Col. George S. Patton, Confederate States of America. CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The following events happened on these dates…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (757+ words) While Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support routinely equips the U.S. warfighters with food, clothing and textiles, a variety of equipment and construction gear, along with medical supplies and vaccines, its strategic supply depots also safeguard a century of living history by…...

18+ hour, 19+ min ago   (444+ words) Joseph R. Beyrle's experience captures the initiative demanded of airborne soldiers, the brutality endured by prisoners of war, and the unlikely battlefield cooperation between American and Soviet soldiers during the final months of the war. Most Americans who know the story…...

12+ hour, 52+ min ago   (367+ words) POLK COUNTY, Fla. — Auburndale World War II veteran Robert Taylor marked his 102nd birthday this month, celebrating life after surviving the torpedoing of the USS Yorktown during the Battle of Midway in 1942. Taylor, known to friends as “Honey Pop,” is among…...