Warfare in News

Posted on Friday 5th February

Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, has been granted European Trade Mark ownership of the title; "The Allied Air Forces Memorial" by the European Union.

Read more of their success at http://yorkshireairmuseum.org/latest-news/allied-air-forces-memorial-gains-european-recognition/

Of further interest...

Allied air power lays the foundation for the conquest of Sicily

Wed 7th August

Bryn Evans, author of With The East Surreys in Tunisia, Sicily and Italy 1942-45, looks back to 70 years ago, when Allied air forces took their revolutionary new strategy for air warfare into the invasion of Sicily. Read article...

Untold stories from the Desert Air Force – Eighth Army’s enforcer in the Second World War

Fri 16th May

From his newly released book – The Decisive Campaigns of the Desert Air Force 1942-1945, Bryn Evans shares some edited excerpts below. Read article...

Bomber Harris

Tue 31st May

The Second Front written for Warfare Magazine by Martin Mace. Read article...

Pilots of the Caribbean

Thu 17th April

A description of the RAF Museum London's latest exhibition 'Pilots of the Caribbean' by curator Peter Devitt, delving into the stories of black volunteers across two World Wars. Read article...

Dates in History

Attack on Pearl Harbor

7th December 1941

On the morning of December 7th 1941, aircraft and midget submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy began a surprise attack on the U.S. under the command of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. Despite long-standing assertions that this attack could have been predicted and prevented by the United States Military, the U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor appeared to be utterly unprepared, and the attack effectively drew the United States into World War II. The overall death toll reached 2,350, including 68 civilians, and 1,178 injured. Of the military personnel lost at Pearl Harbor, 1,177 were from the Arizona.