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SB2C Helldiver Recovered from California Lake

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Divers and salvage crews have successfully raised a WW2 SB2C Helldiver dive bomber from the bottom of a California lake where it crashed in 1945. Now that the plane is free from the mud on the lake bottom, the salvage … Continue reading →

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70th Anniversary of Battle of Britain

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Britain honored the Royal Air Force on the anniversary of the Battle of Britain with a flyover of London by WWII Spitfire and Hurricane aircraft. The flyover marked 70 years since the critical aerial Battle of Britain when the badly … Continue reading →

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New Concord Title: Operation Little Saturn

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Concord Publications has announced a new title in the Warrior Series of books: Operation Little Saturn and Infantry Battles of Heeresgruppe Süd December 1942 – June 1943 by William K. Fowler (ISBN 962-361-163-3, 52 pages, 135 photographs, 4 color plates … Continue reading →

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Bronco New Flak Releases

Posted on August 14, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

CB35042 1/35 German 3.7 cm Flak 36 w/ Sd.Ah. 52 Carriage Trailer CB35079 1/35 German Sd.Ah. 52 37mm Flak 36/37 Ammunition Carriage Trailer  

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761st Tank Battalion Figures

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

New World Miniatures has announced two new 1/35th scale resin figures depicting men of the 761st Tank Battalion “Black Panthers”.  

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Churchill & Eisenhower Accused of UFO Coverup?

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

News of the strange. The British Ministry of Defense has released hundreds of secret “UFO files” online. The files, originally published at http://ufos.nationalarchives.gov.uk/, span several decades and contain eyewitness accounts, sketches, and classified briefings. The files include a letter accusing … Continue reading →

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Warsaw 3-D Documentary

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

City of Ruins is a new documentary film featuring 3-D sequences showing the destruction in bombed-out Warsaw after World War II. The documentary movie from the Warsaw Uprising Museum was directed by Oscar-nominated director Tomek Baginski.      

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New Dragon Model Kits

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

1:35 ’39-’45 Series: StuG. III Ausf. F/8 Late Production w/ Winter Track: 1:35 ’39-’45 Series: 7.5cm PaK 40/4 auf RSO: 1:35 ’39-’45 Series: Sd.Kfz. 166 Stu.Pz. IV Brummbär Early Production w/ Zimmerit:  

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66th Anniversary of D-Day

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

June 6th marks the 66th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied Invasion of Normandy in WWII. The Big Picture at boston.com remembers D-Day with a selection of high-resolution photographs from 1944 and 2010: Remembering D-Day, 66 Years Ago.  

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WWII Bomb Explodes in Göttingen

Posted on June 2, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

A WWII bomb exploded in the German city of Göttingen while being disarmed by a bomb disposal team, killing three and seriously injuring two other members of the bomb disposal team. Göttingen experienced a number of Allied bombing attacks during … Continue reading →

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