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The Custer Channel Wing Explained
1+ hour, 36+ min ago (614+ words) by Max Grünwald | Aug 16, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments That single observation became a forty-year obsession. Custer called his principle ‘aerophysics’, and in 1929 he received a United States patent for a wing built around a semicircular channel — a half-barrel duct…...
The Sack AS-6: Nazi Germany’s ‘Flying Saucer’ That Only Ever Hopped | Afterburner - MiGFlug's Magazine
1+ hour, 35+ min ago (517+ words) by Max Grünwald | Aug 16, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments Few aircraft have been asked to carry as much mythology on so little lift as the Sack AS-6. Search the phrase ‘Nazi flying saucer’ and this stubby, disc-winged machine appears again…...
Junkers Ju 390: The Amerika Bomber's New York Myth
4+ hour, 12+ min ago (443+ words) by Max Grünwald | Aug 16, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments The Junkers Ju 390 was one of the largest aircraft the Third Reich ever flew, and the leading candidate to become Hitler's fabled Amerikabomber, a machine built to strike New York. Separating…...
One weapon defended an empire for 700 years. Nobody knows how it worked
5+ hour, 27+ min ago (499+ words) For roughly 700 years, a single devastating weapon helped keep an empire alive against enemies who repeatedly tried to destroy it. The people who knew how to make it took that knowledge to their graves centuries ago. Ever since, historians have…...
Bataan Survivor's Legacy Flies 81 Years Later
18+ hour, 7+ min ago (1284+ words) On the bow of the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5), the sun settled over the ship and the Norfolk Waterfront as the crowd of Sailors gathered for a special visitor Aug. 15, 2026. Abel Ortega Jr., carried it tight in…...
The 1963 Saigon Putsch: JFK's CIA Run Amok
15+ hour, 2+ min ago (295+ words) jfkfacts.substack.com The 1963 Saigon Putsch: JFK's CIA Run Amok Who is answerable for the Vietnam War? A response to Jack Cheevers and Clifford Krauss on Presidents Kennedy and Diệm. Jack Cheevers’ “Kennedy’s Coup: A White House Plot, a Saigon…...
Spiked club delivered the final blow in the 1361 Battle of Visby, study finds | Archaeology News Online Magazine
20+ hour, 59+ min ago (570+ words) A spiked club delivered the fatal blow to some soldiers killed in the Battle of Visby in 1361, new research suggests. The finding comes from a detailed study of square-shaped holes found in skulls from the battle’s mass graves in Sweden....
Second to none: Hermon men served in the famed 2nd Maine Infantry during bloody, hard-fought Civil War battles
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (676+ words) Wounded in the Battle of the Wilderness, Pvt. John F. Clifford of the 2nd Maine survived the Civil War and lived until 1912. In his obituary, it was said he “did not know fear” and that his commanding officers regarded him as “among…...
The incredible story of a POW's escape from Gravesend to Germany
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (476+ words) There are countless extraordinary stories of survival from the world wars, including one prisoner whose unbreakable spirit carried him home against all odds. Gunther Pluschow (1886 to 1931) was a German soldier imprisoned in Donington Hall, Leicestershire, before making his personal great…...
Quote of the Day by Winston Churchill: “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (71+ words) Winston Churchill’s famous pig quote opens a study of how he kept Britain fighting in 1940, built the Allied coalition and reached victory in 1945....