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In 1941, General der Panzertruppe Erwin Rommel needed heavy artillery to support his advancing armoured divisions in North Africa. Horse-drawn artillery was impractical in the heat of the desert, the

On 22 September 1993, French diver Henri Delauze reported to the Marine Nationale that he had discovered two wrecks in the Hyères/Toulon area at a depth of about 80 m. One was Torpilleur (Torpedo Boat

Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, stuck in the ice in ...

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Five minutes before the Wehrmacht crossed the eastern borders of the neutral Benelux states on the morning of 10 May 1940 to signal the start of the Blitzkrieg in the West, German Fallschirmjäger (par

A cough. A splutter. A jet of flame for good measure and the Merlin is prised from its slumbers and into rambunctious life. Many of you, perhaps even most, will have heard one of these engines, at Goo