In 1942, the German Luftwaffe began investigating the possibility of using a rocket brake in aerial sea mining. The aim was to reduce the ve...

Until recently I had thought of the 1915-18 Salonika Front as little more than an uninteresting footnote to the story of the First World War...

When Edgar (Jack) James Wide applied for the job of Deputy Pier Master at Birnbeck in 1937, he could hardly have imagined that, just a few y...

Following the requisitioning of Birnbeck Pier by the newly formed Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development (DMWD), a number of sites ...

This is my final post following our visit to Japan earlier this year. Unlike many articles on Walking the battlefields, this is not about a ...