The US Air Force, in the 1970s, was looking for a flexible air system, with global reach and supersonic performance, which would be capable, within 24 hours, of striking targets around the globe. Based on these specifications, Boeing proposed the use of their huge passenger, the famous Boeing 747 Ju
Jews are rejected by the German Reich. They are stigmatized by the Civil Service Restoration Act of 1933, which prohibits them from exercising in the civil service and even more so by the Nuremberg Laws, which deprive them of German nationality, prohibit them from marital and extramarital relations.
History has given us a good account of military incompetence with multiple examples, but the case of the American destroyer USS William D. Porter she is worthy of occupying a prominent position in the ranking of the greatest military blunders of all time. Wilfred Walter, the ships captain, called it
DUTCH GRENADIERS Following the reunion of Holland with France in 1810, Napoleon decreed that his brother Louis regiment of guards would enter the Imperial Guard to form a second regiment of foot grenadiers. They were commonly called Dutch grenadiers. After the creation, of which we have just spoken