Showing posts with label WWII. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WWII. Show all posts

August 18, 2025

Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa

I had never seen one of these flying before today. It is good to see these old warbirds being restored, their sound is amazing.

April 16, 2021

Did the Nazis Win The War?

I've said it many times; if an alien visited Earth in 1939, then came back now, they'd be convinced the Nazis had won the war. Especially right now, as we have global authoritarianism, lack of individual freedom, big corporates that are above the law and a media that is compliant and feeding the populous the official 'truth'. All are being subjected to medical experimentation. Facts are no longer facts, all facts are now checked and if they conflict with the mainstream narrative they are labelled false, or mostly false. We have sunk into the abyss. 

February 23, 2021

John Smith Collection: Rare Warbirds

John Smith must have been some kind of genius. Carefully and quietly he built up a collection of rare aircraft few knew anything about. When he died these planes would have been worth a lot, and are even more valuable as historical artefacts. Among his collection were P-40 Kittyhawks, a Mosquito, and P51 Mustang. Have a look at the embedded video:

June 21, 2020

WWII: Pearl Harbor Civilian Pilots

A little history note, if you've ever seen the 1970 movie Tora Tora Tora, about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, then you may recall the scene early in the movie where a female flight instructor is teaching a male student how to fly in her trainer biplane, when what do you know, but Japanese warplanes heading in to attack fly right past them. The instructor takes control and dives the plane out of the way. Most of the scenes in the movie are based on fact, this scene is pretty accurate. There were actually two women flying that day, they and other civilian aircraft were attacked, you can read about it here:

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2016/december/07/civilian-pilots-under-fire-at-pearl-harbor

August 20, 2015

Stuff That's Kind Of Cool

From the strange but true file, I found this Soviet era submarine on the internet. It sits on a river in England, may be for sale, can it actually submerge? Note the interior is nothing like the movie The Hunt For Red October.

>>Check The Foxtrot Sub Out<<

>>Daily Mail Story<<

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Then how about owning your very own T-34 Tank from the Second World War. They're pulling them out of the mud these days, and they start right up with little fiddling around to get them to go. The one in the below video shows German markings, it was captured and used by the Germans, then when they retreated and having no spares for it, they drove it into the lake, to be pulled out much later in the year 2000...