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“HAUNTED BY THE SPECTRE OF THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION”
When we think of the U-boat campaign during the Second World War, images often arise of silent predators gliding beneath the waves, steely and lethal, striking fear into Allied convoys. The myth of th
On the night of 13 March 1944, the Greekregistered steamship SS Peleus was en route from Freetown to Buenos Aires when she was hit amidships by two torpedoes, launched by a German U-boat, U-852. The t
How the Red Army pushed back German forces and what they discovered in their wake as WWII turned
On 11 September 1940, during the late afternoon, between 20 and 30 Messerschmitt Bf 110C/Ds from I. Gruppe of Zerstörergeschwader (ZG) 26 were assigned to fly as part of the fighter cover protecting a
The creation of the Fw 58, Focke-Wulf’s first aircraft to feature a retractable undercarriage, was overseen at the company’s Bremen factory by 33-year-old Kurt Tank, who had been appointed Chief of De
