The wartime history of General Motors
Chris Graham on 13th March 2023
Ed Burrows delves into the wartime history of General Motors, which manufactured around 1.2 million trucks during World War Two.
US Navy
The first aircraft carriers
Chris Graham on 9th August 2022
As part of celebrating a century of the aircraft carrier, David Hobbs charts the arrival of the first of these naval giants.
The decisive Battle of Midway explained
Chris Graham on 24th July 2022
Conrad Waters recounts the decisive Battle of Midway, which was a turning point in the Pacific theatre during World War II.
Conventional breakbulk refrigerator ships remembered
Chris Graham on 20th June 2022
Jim Shaw takes a nostalgic look back at conventional breakbulk refrigerator ships, a type of vessel that's now all but disappeared.
1955 submarine USS Growler
Chris Graham on 15th May 2022
James Hendrie looks back over the career of the 1955 submarine USS Growler; the US Navy’s early attempt to field a cruise missile submarine.
1945 Guppy-type American submarine to be scrapped
Chris Graham on 29th April 2022
We report on the sad news that the 1945, Guppy-type American submarine exhibited for years in Charlestone Harbour, USA, is to be scrapped.
Sterling’s intriguing and ground-breaking trucks
Chris Graham on 22nd February 2022
Sterling produced a variety of intriguing and ground-breaking trucks between 1907 and 1953, as Ed Burrows explains.
USS Tarawa; a mid-1970s ground-breaker
Chris Graham on 1st February 2022
The first Landing Helicopter Assault ship, USS Tarawa, joined the US Navy in 1976. Patrick Boniface recalls this ground-breaking warship.
Tiger class light cruisers
Chris Graham on 29th June 2021
Conrad Waters recounts the history of the Royal Navy’s three Tiger class light cruisers, which were first conceived during World War II.
War at Sea series launched!
Chris Graham on 6th April 2020
USS Gerald R Ford (CVN-78) kicks off a new War at Sea series of bookazines published quarterly by the team behind World of Warships magazine. Each publication will focus on a particular warship.
USS Gerald R Ford nears certification
Chris Graham on 22nd January 2020
The USS Gerald R Ford nears certification following the successful completion of a significant series of exercises late last year, before the ship returned to Naval Station Norfolk. These trials bring the new aircraft carrier ever closer to being declared…
