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.
Category Archives: World War II
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.
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.
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.
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.
Operations ‘Brewer’ & ‘Beefsteak’ – closing the door on the Japanese base areas of Rabaul and Kavieng
An account of the two US army operations ‘brewer’ and ‘beefsteak’, led against the Japanese during World War II.
Anzio – the final stage
An account of the final stage of the Battle of Anzio.
The Anzio beach-head – the Germans fight back
The Battle of Anzio: Allied and German offensives and counteroffensives.
Trying to break the Italian stalemate – the Allied landing at Anzio
Details of the planning and execution of Operation ‘Shingle’, an Allied attempt to break the stalemate in southern Italy.
Operation ‘Sportpalast’ – the German naval attack on the Allied PQ.12 and QP.8 arctic convoys
Details of Unternehmen ‘Sportpalast’: a German attempt to intercept Allied arctic convoys during March 1942