Wednesday, October 8, 2014

How Major Jack Cram, USMC, earned the nickname "Mad Jack" and won the Navy Cross

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October 15, 1942.  It was literally the darkest day the Marines faced while on Guadalcanal.  The night before, two Japanese battleships sw...
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Friday, August 15, 2014

First Battle for American Tanks Crewed By American Tankers

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With tensions rising in the Pacific, two Federalized National Guard units were equipped with M3 tanks (called Stuart by the Brits, but M3 by...
Monday, July 21, 2014

That Phantom II Passed us Like We Were Standing Still ...

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This is a bit of personal history I'd like to model some day, assuming I could find a suitable shadow box and the right kits in 1/144 sc...
Sunday, July 20, 2014

Operation Credible Sport - A Remarkable Rocket-Powered Top-Secret C-130

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A dash of "hidden history" you can model. Operation Credible Sport (yeah, a pretty stupid name, but it defined a fascinating plane...

Smack-Down - Unarmed C-47 "Shooots Down" Japanese Army Air Force Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa - "Oscar"

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Here's another unusual piece of history you can model. In 1943, in the CBI theater of operations, a C-47 was on a mission of resupply t...

Peashooter P-26 Night Fighter Protecting Pearl Harbor, Post-Attack, December 1941

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re historical trivia you can model. During the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese showed the great good sense of not wasting bombs or bul...

D-Day Invasion Stripes - Too Pretty? Too "defined" in shape?

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Here's a new historical-trivia-you-can-model for you - most "invasion stripes" which were painted the day and night of June 4...