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Me 262 Training

Often overlooked by aviation historians and writers – myself included! – is the aspect of training. This is possibly because it is not considered a particularly glamorous aspect of the ‘combat’ narrative. It was, however, essential.

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Tanks in the Philippines 1944–45: The biggest armored clashes of the Pacific War

Most tank buffs ignore the Pacific Campaign since there is the popular perception that tanks were not widely used in these battles. That was certainly the case in many of the early campaigns on the islands in the Southwest Pacific. These small volcanic islands were often covered by tropical growth and impassible to tanks.

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Chinese Volunteers in the Korean War 1950–53

On 25 June 1950, North Korea launched an all-out attack on its southern neighbour, the Republic of Korea (ROK). Despite the Communists’ early success in driving the poorly equipped ROK Army and its US allies to the brink of disaster, the amphibious landing of US forces at Inchon on the western coast of the Korean peninsula forced the North’s Korean People’s Army (KPA) to retreat all the way to the Sino-Korean border.

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