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During the early 1970s the US Navy tried out a unique experimental new method of preserving warships in reserve, aboard the decommissioned USS Betelgeuse (AK-260).

(photo from May 1972 ...


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I wish a Merry Christmas to all wwiiafterwwii readers, a few days early. Below is a Christmas card of the British XII Army of 1945, the first peacetime Christmas which Great Britain had since 1938.

The 1945 card ...


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This is a look at Cambodia’s use of WWII tanks and armored vehicles before the coming of the Khmer Rouge in 1975.

(A WWII M24 Chaffee tank of FANK, the Cambodian army, in battle at Koki Thom on 8 Ma...


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Over the years I considered writing on this, but did not as there are other commentaries on the topic already. However some of them “mix things up” as to when and why these proposals were created, especially regarding Martin Marietta’s “Phase II” and the actual 1980s reactivations of the WWII Iowa class.

I hope that this may be of some value to show all the id...


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This is a look at how Mosin-Nagant rifles, the USSR’s main longarm of WWII, came commercially into the United States at the height of anti-communist sentiment.

(Soviet soldiers with Mosin-Nagant r...


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