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How Germans Turned Trains Into Massive Artillery in WWII - One Of The Two Surviving Guns

Railway guns like the German WWII K5 gun had a very narrow aim. To get around that problem, Germans developed a circular track, allowing the gun to rotate and fire in 360 degrees.

A K5(E) is preserved at the United States Army Ordnance Museum in Fort Lee (Petersburg, Virginia). Leopold...read more

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Rare British Railway-Mounted Guns - Ready to Fire across the English Channel!

Great Britain employed railway-mounted guns that were capable of firing across the English Channel between the areas around Dover and Calais. Britain employed three 13.5-inch (342.9 mm) railway mounted guns on the East Kent Light Railway, located around Lydden and Shepherdswell. These were known...read more

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A Fully Working M4 Enigma Machine Smashes Record at Auction, sold for $365,000

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A fully operational M4 enigma machine, one of the rarest and most complicated of all the enigma machines (encryption devices) used by the Nazis during the Second World War, in fine condition, has sold for a record-breaking $365,000. This encryption...read more

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Amazing finding! Bunker Turret Using a Pz.Kpfw. II Turret Discovered in Poland - Ghosts Return!

An unusual remnant of World War II was found by a group of military history enthusiasts in the middle of a field in Poland on 1st October this year. One meter beneath the surface the German turret was resting for over 70 years. Given the circumstances, it’s still in a pretty good shape!

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Unusual Survival Emergency Flying Ration MK 2 Used By The British RAF During WW2

This is an extremely rare & unusual survival 1943 Ration used by the British Royal Air Force Emergency Flying Ration MK 2 during WW2 - check out this video and get the full scoop!read more

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Great Images of Rare Italian Torpedo Aircraft Launched against Gibraltar

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This Italian torpedo aircraft was launched, probably, from an Italian Savoia-Marchetti SM.82 bomber of 32 Stormo on 12 June 1941, against Gibraltar, falling intact on the beach of La Línea de la Concepción. Master Specialist Antonio Garabito Ramírez and...read more

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Shooting Up: Drug use in WWII

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It’s a little known fact that during the second world war drugs were issued to those men on active service on a monumental scale, hundreds of millions of pills were produced.

The drug of choice was amphetamines, stimulants used to help push troops beyond there not made endurance and...read more

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Handcrafted Sd.Kfz.303 'Goliath' Replica and its build process in amazing images, even 27 slides!!

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Goliath replica was build in 2011. We have 2D and 3D CAD documentation which was based on orginal Sd.Kfz.303 from WW2. Measurements of all parts, joinery technique as well as the built of all systems match the technology used in 1940....read more

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For sale: former RAF watch tower that was part of a night fighter station during the World War II

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The control tower is a former RAF watch tower that was part of a night fighter station during the Second World War and we understand that this building is listed by English Heritage as a Scheduled Monument.

The airbase, originally planned in 1939 to be satellite of Chivenor, a Coastal...read more

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'La tienda de juguetes de Churchill': ¿diseño innovador o fracaso de los constructores?

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El Ministerio de Defensa británico (MD1), también conocido como 'la tienda de juguetes de Churchill', fue establecido en 1939 por Winston Churchill y se encargaba de la investigación y desarrollo de armamento específico para la guerra irregular. Les mostramos...read more

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