A junior Military Historian. In 2018 I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History. I'm also a professional student, specializing in Cold War era military history and American aviation history. I have composed several publications over the last four years, and continue to publish writings and photos to various journals, publishers, and blogs - including this one.
It’s a typical pattern of evolution. Each generation recognizes something that was absurd or incredible in the past as ordinary in the present. As time passes, evolution takes hold again, and we are left in awe of something new and truly amazing once again. Mankind is full of such advancementsContinue Reading
An idea that had seemed so far away at the crux of the war in Europe had quickly come to the forefront of the mind of the Allies as April 1945 pressed on. The month had proven to be particularly harsh on Axis forces, having lost over one million combatants,Continue Reading
The T145 175 mm Gun has the distinction of being part of two different families. The first of these is the Annie Family, which saw it’s birth formally during World War II with the German’s Anzio Annie. The second family was known as the Triple Threat family – or TripleContinue Reading
Recently, a request came up regarding an M103 Heavy Tank that was located on a public island on the Mississippi River. The island has been subjugated to numerous floods over the years and so has the tank. I decided to jump into the newspapers to find more information about theContinue Reading
Born out of the need of a high-altitude, high-speed, strategic reconnaissance aircraft, the SR-71 Blackbird is one of the world’s most iconic aircraft ever produced. The youngest in the Blackbird Family, the SR-71 was the third aircraft to use the design of it’s type. The first was the A-12 Oxcart, which preceded the SR-71Continue Reading
I’m not sure about the rest of you, but I am so over this pandemic… I left work on the evening of 13 March with orders that the following week was supposed to be staggered. The order was simply to start rotating days for telework, where each day only oneContinue Reading
In 1955, Rock Island Arsenal’s Research and Development Division began designing a towed, helicopter-transportable launcher for the 318MM Little John rocket. The project went through several phases. The Little John rocket system had three component parts: The rocket, the launcher, and the trailer. Developed to complement the larger Honest John,Continue Reading
Developed in the early 1950s, the Honest John was the U.S. Army’s primary field artillery rocket until the mid-1970s. A mobile tactical system, the free-flight, fin-stabilized, surface-to-surface rocket carried a nuclear or high-explosive warhead. A handling beam was temporarily attached to the rocket to load it on the truck-mounted, rail-typeContinue Reading
This experimental model was designed to improve the mobility of towed artillery weapons. The Terra-Star major/minor wheel running gear was fitted to a standard M2A2 105MM howitzer. When moving on hard surfaces, the two small wheels would rotate as on any normal wheeled vehicle. When moving on soft surfaces, theContinue Reading
Originally designated as the 105-mm howitzer M2A1 on carriage M2, the M101 howitzer was the light howitzer of choice for Allied forces during World War II. Like many World War II howitzers, the M101 traces its developmental genesis to the post-World War I era. Following the close of hostilities duringContinue Reading
