Warship Builders – An Industrial History of U.S. Naval Ship Building, 1922-1945, by Thomas Heinrich (Naval Institute Press, 2021, 346pp, $29). Liberty Factory – The Untold Story of Henry Kaiser’s Oregon Shipyards, By by Peter J Marsh (Seaforth Publishing, 2021, 256PP, $40). Reviews by Don DeNevi Publisher’s Summary: Warship Builders is the first scholarly study…
Being there . . . . few subjects in World War II, Europe, during the past eight decades have hadthe power to attract more interest, or generate greater fascination, than Hitler’s inability totake Stalingrad, and consequently the Eastern Front, and/or failure to effectively subdue all ofFrance while attempting to transform her into a French-Nazi ally….
The combatants of World War I came to the battlefield with a significant amount of baggage. France and Germany had been particularly hostile to one another since the Germans took Alsace-Lorraine away from the French in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, and the French intended to get their lost lands back. Austria was a waning…
In the latter half of 1943, two of World War II’s most colorful and charismatic senior commanders, General George S. Patton, Jr. and Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the “Desert Fox,” were both out of work and in the doghouse, with their careers not only on hold, but possibly even coming to an end. Patton’s plight was self-inflicted, the slapping…
On December 7th, 1941, after years of tenuous relations with the Japanese Empire, the United States found itself under siege. Pearl Harbor, the home of the United States Navy’s Pacific Fleet, had been virtually annihilated. The United States at once was at war with a foe that possessed a marked naval advantage. While the United…
Sometimes in life, the guy with the drunken, so-crazy-it-just-might-work ideas hits one out of the park and saves the day. This is clearly what happened in 1942 aboard the HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen, the last Dutch warship standing after the Battle of the Java Sea. Bridge of the Abraham Crijnssen, almost totally obscured by the layers…
Article by Nick Jacobellis While John Moses Browning crafted the original basic design, Dieudonne Saive of Fabrique National (FN), Herstal, Belgium is credited with completing the design that became the now famous 9mm (Browning) Hi Power. The name Hi Power was assigned to this pistol due to its 13 round magazine capacity. Production of the…
Review by Christopher Eric (Moon) Mullins Author : Neal Dando Details General – Pages : 192 | Images : 8 colour maps, 3 tables Paperback – Date of Publication : 4th December 2023 | Size : 234mm x 156mm | ISBN : 9781804512326 | Helion Book Code : HEL1661 Neal Dando does a great job of storytelling…
Book review by Martin Koenigsberg The US Military had a new toy but they did not know how to use it. The Vought F4U Corsair looked cool with these gull wings but seemed to be hard to handle and hard to fight. Even though the British Fleet Air Arm loved the plane for Carrier Operations…
Being there . . . . in 1942 when Britain and the United States had to prove to “Uncle” Joe Stalinthat the main Western Allies were deadly serious about relieving the Soviet Union of the Hitlereastern juggernaut on Moscow’s doorstep. With earnest western invasion planning along theFrench Coast still more than a year away, cross-Channel…
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