20th Century / Cold War

From 1957 until 1991, the Strategic Air Command of the US Air Force (SAC) fought a war of deterrence. Every single day, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, thousands of men, women, and hundreds of aircraft were kept on alert, armed with nuclear weapons, ready to attack pre-determined targets on short notice.

The Berlin Airlift of 1948-1949 was the monumental Allied response to the Soviet blockade, sustaining Berlin with vital supplies via an unprecedented airlift operation.It was a time of high drama. The...

The Whiskey-class (Soviet Project 613) submarines were the most numerous submarine produced after 1945. The type is best Known in the West for the 1981 ‘Whiskey on the Rocks’ incident when an example...

The end of World War II set the stage for an accumulation of arms that would rival even the most vivid imagination as the United States tried to maintain a period of operational readiness matching rival...

In the aftermath of the Second World War relations between the Soviet Union and their former allies in the West quickly soured and developed into the Cold War. The USSR was at a huge disadvantage at...

The Avro Vulcan, arguably the best known of the British ‘V-Bombers’, was an integral part of Britain’s nuclear deterrent. During the Cold War, several RAF squadrons were equipped with Vulcans,...

While most famous for its U-2 penetration flights over the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People’s Republic of China, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operated a large number of ‘other’ types of intelligence-gathering aircraft, or specially modified aircraft for operations beyond the Iron Curtain from the mid-1940s.

With the ending of the Second World War, Lief Bangsboll, after distinguished service with the O.S.S. behind enemy lines in Denmark, prepared himself for a life of peace and hopefully love with the young...