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Smolensk 1943
With the German defeat at Kursk, the Soviet Stavka (high command) ordered the Western and Kalinin Fronts to launch Operation Suvorov in order to liberate the city of Smolensk. The …
Operation Linebacker I 1972
At Easter 1972, North Vietnam invaded the South, and there were almost no US ground troops left to stop it. But air power reinforcements could be rushed to the theater. …
Operation Linebacker II 1972
After the failed April 1972 invasion of South Vietnam and the heavy US tactical bombing raids in the Hanoi area, the North Vietnamese agreed to return to the Paris peace talks, yet …
US Navy Battleships 1895–1908
The last predreadnought battleships of the US Navy were critical to the technological development of US battleships, and they were the first tool of international hard power …
Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk Stealth Fighter
Developed by the legendary Lockheed ‘Skunk Works,’ the F-117 Nighthawk was a phenomenal technical achievement. Featuring cutaways, detail plates and battlescene artwork, this book …
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
The SR-71 represents the very pinnacle of Cold War aircraft design and it has become an aviation icon. Together with its predecessor, the A-12, the Blackbird was a giant leap into …
Operation Crossbow 1944
In mid-1943, Allied intelligence began to pick up the signs of unusual German construction in remote locations near the Channel Coast. Several massive fortifications were beginning …
Japan 1944–45
The air campaign that incinerated Japan’s cities was the first and only time that independent air power has won a war. As the United States pushed Imperial Japan back towards …