The Netherlands remained neutral during World War 1 and to maintain this they made large-scale cutbacks in the inter-war period. This was reversed to a degree when Hitler came to power, and also when Dutch territories in the Pacific became vulnerable to Japanese expansionism, this proved to be too little too late and the Dutch were unable to prevent the German army overrunning the Dutch defences in May ...
On April 2nd, 1982, Argentinian Commandos mounted an invasion of the Falkland Islands following an earlier civilian occupation of South Georgia in March. they outnumbered the nominal defence force of Royal Marines stationed there and soon the Governor had no choice but to surrender. On April 4th, The British Nuclear submarine, Conquerer, was sent to enforce an exclusion zone, followed ...
Day 1 with the Tudor Black Bay; I'd like to say that this was the first picture I'd taken of it, but I actually wore it out of the store and put it back in the box when I got home for this shot It’s funny how things work sometimes. How you can be so dead set on a plan and figure that things will happen that way because, well, it’s your plan, and you can do everything ...
Updated Oct 13, 2016 at 03:19 PM by Raza
President Woodrow Wilson tried to keep The United States out of World War 1. He understood that the Army stood at just under 100.000 men in the ranks, a small number compared to the British and French forces, that they were not trained in trench warfare and were poorly equipped. In 1915 there had been a serious attempt to actually cut military funding, even the loss of 128 American citizens when a German ...
As the West German Luftwaffe became more central to the NATO defence forces in Europe they were increasingly the first to be supplied with the most up to date aircraft. The Lockheed F104 Starfighter had a poor reputation, more than 915 were delivered and 292 crashed with 116 pilots losing their life, the West German nicknamed them "Widow-maker" or "Flying coffin" It was learned ...
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