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flying stork on radiator cap of a Hispano Suiza car

Why Hispano-Suiza Adopted a French WW1 Squadron Insignia

Posted on November 1, 2022


During the Great War, Hispano-Suiza built over 50,000 aircraft engines, but when war ended in 1918, they returned to car production.    Sadly Guynemer didn’t see the war end as he was killed during combat over Poelcapelle in Belgium, in September 1917.

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Bronze memorial with wreath of red poppies

A Belated Farewell to WW2 B17 Bomber Mi Amigo

Posted on July 7, 2022


On February 22nd, 1944, eight-year-old Tony Foulds was playing football with friends in Endcliffe Park, Sheffield when they heard a plane approaching low.  The crew spotted the wide-open area of Endcliffe Park. But as they approached for an emergency landing, realized there were children scattered across the field.

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B-17 Bomber WW2
Black Jolly Rogers flag with silver grinning skull and crossbones

Fighting Squadron 17: The Jolly Rogers in the Pacific Theater

Posted on June 27, 2022


He decided the unit needed an insignia that showed attitude. And as they were flying Corsairs – another name for a pirate – he settled on the nickname “Jolly Rogers.”  
The unit adopted the pirate’s calling card of a black flag with white skull and crossbones. And soon after this, all VF-17 Corsairs were painted with grinning skulls and crossbones.

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Jolly Rogers USS Bunker Hill VF17
The U-570 submarine sailing into Royal Naval docks after capture

Submarine U-570: The WW2 submarine captured by an aircraft

Posted on June 21, 2022


By the time U-570 approached Icelandic waters, they had been battling through very rough seas for several days.  Many of the crew were suffering severe seasickness. And desperate to give his crew some relief, the inexperienced captain decided to ignore his orders, and surface.

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HMS Graph Submarines U-570 U-boats
Lafayette Escadrille biplane with Native Indian Chief's head painted on fuselage

Lafayette Escadrille: American Volunteer Pilots during WWI

Posted on June 17, 2022


In April 1916 the Lafayette Escadrille – led by French Lt. Colonel Georges Thenault – was formed.

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Lafayette Escadrille
Two members of the Filthy Thirteen putting camouflage paint on each other's faces

The Filthy Thirteen: WW2 War Paint and Mayhem

Posted on June 17, 2022


In the hours leading up to D-Day, a Stars and Stripes newspaper photo-journalist took a picture of an odd group of paratroopers putting war paint on their faces. With their heads shaved into Mohawks. They were an unknown unit.

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101st Airborne 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment Filthy Thirteen
Black pirate flag with skull and crossbones

Why the Power of the Skull Terrifies You

Posted on June 16, 2022


For some, a skull means fear; fear of death, fear of mortality, darkness and evil.
For others; fear of nothing, live for the moment, make a statement.

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Skulls
Black and white image of a Lorenz code machine from WW2

William Tutte: An Unseen WW2 Hero who Changed World History

Posted on June 16, 2022


The work of William Tutte and the Lorenz code breakers shortened the Second World War by at least two years. And saved thousands of lives across Europe.

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Enigma code machine Lorenz code machine
Kieffer and some of his men standing in a French street on D-Day

Commando Kieffer D-Day 1944

Posted on June 15, 2022


Commando Kieffer was the idea of Philippe Kieffer, a former banker.  After seeing British Commandos in action in 1942, he persuaded the Brits to let him form an elite French commando unit - Fusiliers-Marins Commandos to fight alongside them on D-Day.

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Commando Kieffer French patches

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