The P-38
Lightning in Europe
By Jonathan Lupton
The P-38 Lightning was one of the world’s fastest aircraft when it first flew early in 1939. Its eccentric design was immediately seen as exciting rather than off-putting: its airframe featured twin “booms” and a cockpit “pod” in place of a traditional fuselage…
The Wuhan Campaign
11 June to 27 October 1938
By Terence Co
At 7:00 a.m. on 24 January 1938, a single shot rang out inside the third story sanctuary of the Forever Spring Taoist Temple on the south side of Shuangfeng Hill, near the Chinese city of Wuchang. Gen. Hu Zongn an had just put a bullet through the head of a kneeling Gen. Han Fuju , whose army had surrendered control of Shandong province to Japanese invaders…
The Naval War
on Lake Ladoga
By Andrew Hind
For centuries Finland was part of imperial Russia, and only achieved independence in May 1918 after a brief struggle that ended in the expulsion of Bolshevik troops from the new country. A portion of the border between independent Finland and its hostile neighbor ran through Lake Ladoga . . .
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