The capture of the island was to ensure the Americans an air base only 1,200 kilometers from Tokyo. Until then, bombing missions had started from the Mariana Islands more than 5,000 kilometers from Japan:a distance that made escorting fighters impossible; heavy losses followed among the B-29 superfo
Ḥiṣn al-Ghurāb (Arabic:Crow Castle), old Cane , historical Bergstätte on the south coast of Arabia in southern Yemen . On the top of the mountain are the ruins of an old castle, a watchtower, cisterns and other structures. On flat ground immediately north of the mountain are the rem
The “Landing Ship, Tank” (LST on the list of ship registration codes of the US Navy or Bâtiment de Débarquement de Chars in the French Navy) is a type of vessel for amphibious operations created during World War II to unload heavy vehicles on unprepared places such as beaches. 1,051 of these ships
On the eve of the Allied landings in Normandy, German agent Paul Fitrmutz – code name “Ostro” – knew what was about to happen. A few days before the landing, Ostro, who was in Lisbon, had in his hands the smallest detail of Operation Overlord, as the planned Normandy landing was codenamed. The A