wwii
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How A Secret Squad Saved London From Flooding In The WWII Blitz
When bombs rained down on London during the Blitz, they fell on houses, on churches, and, less famously, on embankments along the River Thames. The damaged embankments could have sent devastating floods through London, but they didn’t — thanks to a group of engineers who worked secretly and at night.
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Less Than 2 Per Cent Of The Hiroshima Bomb’s Uranium Actually Detonated
Little Boy, the nuclear bomb that U.S. forces dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, leveled a two-mile radius of the city, killing an estimated 80,000 people. It was an enormous amount of destruction — and it was caused by less than two per cent of the uranium carried by the…
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This Giant Flamethrower Was The Most Terrifying Weapon Of World War I
You’re looking at a Livens Large Gallery Flame Projector in action, the mother and father of all flamethrowers, capable of torching everything as far as 40m away. They were deployed for the first time in World War I by the British Army and apparently they were quite effective.
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Spies In The Skies: How Aerial Surveillance Tipped The Balance Of WWII
When General Werner von Fritsch, the then commander-in-chief of the German Army, predicted in 1938 that “the military organisation which has the best reconnaissance unit will win the next war,” few doubted that, in aerial reconnaissance and photography, the Luftwaffe reigned supreme. This, however, proved to be far from the case.