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From Triplane to Camel, the War’s Best Fighters

Towards the end of “Bloody April” in 1917 (click here for details) the RNAS began to equip their squadrons with a new and astonishing aircraft – the Sopwith Triplane.  This was a development of the Sopwith Pup, but the triplane configuration gave the plane unprecedented manoeuvrability and rate of climb. The undisputed masters of the Sopwith [...]

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Fighters: Spad, Pup and Albatross, the Intermediate Generation

The desire for stable, easy-to-fly aircraft had given way to a call for manoeuvrable fighters with fixed machine guns and a good rate of climb. It was clear on both sides of the trenches that the current aircraft were not adequate.  By autumn of 1916 the first custom-built tractor fighters began to appear on the front.  The [...]

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The Battle of Heligoland Bight, 1914

Designed by the British as a means of attacking German patrols in the north-west German coast, the encounter at Heligoland Bight on 28 August 1914 comprised the first naval battle of the war. Commander Tyrwhitt was charged with leading the Harwich Force of two light cruisers, Fearless and Arethusa, accompanied by two flotillas of 31 [...]

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The Battle of Otranto Straits, 1917

Having mounted a series of ongoing assaults upon the AlliedOtranto Barrage in the Mediterranean – usually whenever one of their submarines was lost to an unknown cause – the Austro-Hungarian Navy determined to launch a concerted attack on the night of 14/15 May 1917. The attack, planned by then-Captain MiklosHorthy de Nagybanya, was led by three [...]

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The Battle of Caporetto, 1917

One of the more spectacular successes of the war (by any belligerent), the Battle of Caporetto (also referred to as the Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo) saw combined Austro-Hungarian and German forces decisively break through the Italian line along the northern Isonzo, catching the Italian defenders entirely by surprise.  The scale of the Italian defeat [...]

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The Third Battle of Ypres, 1917

Whereas thefirst andsecond battles of Ypres were launched by the Germans in 1914 and 1915 respectively, Third Ypres was intended as Sir Douglas Haig’s Allied forces breakthrough in Flanders in 1917. Haig had long mulled the idea of launching a major offensive in Flanders.  It was his preferred choice for 1916, although in the event the Battle of the Somme took [...]

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The Battle of Le Cateau, 1914

The Battle of Le Cateau was essentially a rearguard action fought by the British in late August 1914, during the general Allied retreat along the Western Front in the face of sustained German successes at the four Battles of the Frontiers. On the night of 25 August the General Smith-Dorrien’s II Corps were pursued near Le Cateau [...]

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Hitler’s Order of the Day Calling for Invasion of Yugoslovia and Greece (April 6, 1941)

SOLDIERS OF THE SOUTHEAST FRONT: Since early this morning the German people are at war with the Belgrade government of intrigue. We shall only lay down arms when this band of ruffians has been definitely and most emphatically eliminated, and the last Briton has left this part of the European Continent, and that these misled [...]

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Hitler’s Speech in Nuremberg, Labor-Front SPEECH OF SEPTEMBER 12, 1936

HOW Germany has to work to wrest a few square kilometers from the ocean and from the swamps while others are swimming in a superfluity of land! If I had the Ural Mountains with their incalculable store of treasures in raw materials, Siberia with its vast forests, and the Ukraine with its tremendous wheat fields, [...]

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Hitler’s speech to the Reichstag, Berlin SPEECH OF MARCH 23, 1933

IN NOVEMBER, 1918, Marxist organizations seized the executive power by means of a revolution. The monarchs were dethroned, the authorities of the Reich and of the States removed from office, and thereby a breach of the Constitution was committed. The success of the revolution in a material sense protected the guilty parties from the hands [...]

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