#USAAF

When working on my new book 'Mustang: The Untold Story', it became clear that there is an awful lot of confusion about the early marks of North American Mustang/P-51. So
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There's a weird tech bro version of the American dream. They idolise generally distasteful people like Jobs or musk and excuse their behaviour, because they believe that one day they
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#ChristmasEve thread on loss during single largest mission flown by the 8th #USAAF in #WW2 on Dec 24, 1944 as the weather lifted during the #BattleoftheBulge. @militaryhistori @jaketapper @thehistoryguy @jesse_history
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A bit of precursory information before my tweets come in. As we know, the Germans launched their offensive in the Ardennes on December 16th, and by the 17th virtually all
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Do you like Klimt? Do you like WW2 authoritarian architecture with a naval twist?Do you like both, with a backhanded bird raised at Nazis?If so, read on... Thread Yesterday I
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ThreadOct-Nov. 1942:There was a strange matrix occurring in Papua between soldiers of US 32nd Infantry Division (National Guardsmen from small towns around Green Bay, #Wisconsin and Grand Rapids, #Michigan) and
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Kurt Vonnegut’s remarks about his fellow soldiers in the 423rd Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Division, here taken without challenge by historian and author Antony Beevor in his book, ‘Ardennes 1944,’
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1. Fanning out from the Balikpapan bridgehead, men of the 2/14th Bn AIF approach the (supposedly) abandoned Japanese airstrip at Manggar, across debris filling the Kechil River. Borneo, July 4th
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#OTD January 31, 1944 the battles of Kwajalein and Majuro atolls begin. Operation Flintlock—the seizure of the Marshall Islands—followed quickly on the success of Operation Galvanic, furthering US advances in
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The “Golden Lions” of the 106th Infantry Division occupy a tragic place in the historiography of the Ardennes battle. The state of its readiness for battle has proven a fertile
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The vital role played by the 28th Infantry Division’s 110th Regimental Combat Team by delaying the advance of XLVII Panzer Corps, saved the strategic crossroads town of Bastogne, Belgium from
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It's been a while.Time for a long time coming [THREAD]My top 10 war movies/series.However, I'll also point out their utility for #PME beside recommending them for their historical and artistic
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The Luftwaffe took a massive pounding over Normandy.As the Heer's ammunition supplies interdicted by Allied tactical aircraft, Luftflotte III tasked medium bombers such as the Ju88 to hit British arty,
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On 18 July 1944, Bomber Command unleashed over a thousand heavy bombers against the German defenders opposing Operation Goodwood: a massive armoured offensive.But how many bombers were lost, and why
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I found this uncredited image in 'Looking Down on War: The Normandy Invasion' by the late Colonel Roy Stanley, USAF, the other day. It's got some great photos of D-Day
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The Siege of Leningrad killed more civilians than bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. The US Military Academy evaluated that Russian casualties during the siege were bigger than
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