The Bismarck Class.- After the Anglo-German Naval Agreement was signed, the battleship "F" (later Bismarck) was officially ordered, and the building contract placed on 16 November 1935 with the shipbuilding firm Blohm & Voss, founded by Hermann Blohm and Ernst Voss in 1877. Designed by Dr....read more

Originally scheduled to be named Chapin Bay, the keel of the CVE-63 was laid on January 23, 1943, at Kaiser Shipyard in Vancouver, Washington. It was launched on August 17, 1943, and commissioned on October 23, 1943, at Astoria, Oregon, with Capt. Francis J. McKenna in command. Following a...read more

The U.S. Navy Armed Guard was a service branch of the United States Navy that was responsible for defending U.S. and Allied merchant ships from attack by enemy aircraft, submarines and surface ships during World War II. The men of the Armed Guard served primarily as gunners, signal men and radio...read more

Precisamente, pocos meses después de haberse iniciado la Segunda Guerra Mundial, emergió la figura de un excelente francotirador finlandés que ocupa el primer puesto en el ranking de soldados abatidos. Su nombre está escrito con letras de oro en la memoria colectiva de Finlandia, ya que el gran ...read more