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The Start of Italy’s European Disaster – ‘Emergenza G’ and The Invasion Of Greece (part 2)

The second part of the account of ‘Emergenza G’, the disastrous invasion of Greece by Italy in WWII, with details of the conflict, and the human and material costs.

Posted byChris Chant24/10/201128/10/2011Posted inHistory, Military History, World War IITags: Greece, Italy, ‘Emergenza G’

The Start of Italy’s European Disaster – ‘Emergenza G’ and the Invasion of Greece (part 1)

An account of ‘Emergenza G’, the disastrous invasion of Greece by Italy in WWII, with details of the conflict and the human and material costs.

Posted byChris Chant17/10/201122/10/2011Posted inHistory, Military History, World War IITags: Greece, Italy, ‘Emergenza G’

Operation ‘Menace’ – The British and Free French Attempt To Take Dakar

An account of Operation ‘Menace’, the unsuccessful British and Free French attempt to take the port of Dakar in French West Africa (now Senegal) in August-September 1940. With details of the military forces, cruisers, destroyers and other equipment involved.

Posted byChris Chant19/09/201119/09/2011Posted inHistory, Military History, World War IITags: de Gaulle, Free French, Vichy France, WWII

Operation ‘Pedestal’ -The Final Major Supply Convoy to Malta

The dramatic story of ‘Operation Pedestal’ – to deliver oil supplies to Malta by the tanker SS Ohio, one of the most important British supply convoy operations of World War II.

Posted byChris Chant29/08/201125/08/2011Posted inMilitary History, World War IITags: Malta, SS Ohio, supply convoy, WWII1 Comment on Operation ‘Pedestal’ -The Final Major Supply Convoy to Malta

The Cruiser (part 6): The Axis Powers & the Postwar World

A history of the cruisers of the Axis powers – namely Germany, Italy and Japan. Also the new directions in building war ships and missiles after WW2 in the United States and on the other side of the now fallen Iron Curtain.

Posted byChris Chant22/08/201102/09/2011Posted inMaritime warfare, Military equipment, Military History, WWIITags: Axis Powers, cruisers, post-WW2 cruisers

The Cruiser (part 4): US heavy cruisers

A history of US heavy cruisers of World War II and after. The different categories of the cruisers and how they came about.

Posted byChris Chant08/08/201106/05/2012Posted inMaritime warfare, Military equipment, Naval operations, World War IITags: American heavy cruisers, Cruiser warship, naval history

The Cruiser (part 1): classic multi-role warship

Introducing the Cruiser warship, from its inception in the mid- to late-19th century, through to its adoption by Germany at the beginning of the 20th century, up to the end of World War I.

Posted byChris Chant18/07/201118/07/2011Posted inMaritime warfare, World War ITags: British navy, Cruiser warship, German navy1 Comment on The Cruiser (part 1): classic multi-role warship

Hawker Tempest – a late-generation British piston-engined fighter (Part 2)

The second of two posts on the British Hawker Tempest fighter plane, tracing its development from mid-1943 onwards, through to its final operational service for Pakistan in 1954.

Posted byChris Chant14/07/201118/07/2011Posted inMilitary Aviation, World War II, WWIITags: air defence, Hawker Tempest, RAF

Hawker Tempest – a late-generation British piston-engined fighter (Part 1)

The first of two posts on the British Hawker Tempest fighter plane, one of the very few warplanes to have been both designed and placed ins ervice during the course of World War II.

Posted byChris Chant11/07/201118/07/2011Posted inMilitary Aviation, World War II, WWIITags: air defence, Hawker Tempest, RAF

Operation ‘Forager’ – the US forces move into the Mariana Islands

An account of Operation “Forager”, the Allied seizure of the northern part of the three largest Mariana islands from Japan, between June and August 1944.

Posted byChris Chant04/07/201118/07/2011Posted inWar in the PacificTags: Allied operations, Japanese, Operation Forager

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