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The Tenth Bridge

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on November 21, 2021

“They’re such fighters, if only they can get the stuff to fight with…” spoken by the BBC’s Stanley Maxted at Arnhem – the Tenth Bridge of Operation Market Garden.

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The First Fighting Squadron VF-34

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on February 14, 2021December 7, 2021

In early 1944 the US Navy assembled an untrained and ill-prepared fighter squadron and shipped it for immediate action in the final stage of Operation Cartwheel. This is the story of the first Fighting Squadron 34.

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Alone, Above All

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on November 22, 2020January 29, 2023

The Photo Recon pilot had no wingman, no flight, no formation. He flew alone in radio silence for hours at a time, navigating on dead reckoning all over mainland Europe; in his unarmed Spitfire he had only its altitude and speed, along with his wits and airmanship as protection.

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Hunted.

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on October 17, 2020December 7, 2021

“The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.” – Ulysses S. Grant

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Two Weeks in January, 1945

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on June 17, 2020December 7, 2021

If you read to the end, a sense of fatigue wouldn’t be unexpected. It will pale though when compared to the fatigue these men must have endured. I don’t know how they did it.

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Mrs. Yarra’s Boys

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on February 10, 2020December 7, 2021

Two brothers, two Spitfires; Ft/Lt. John Yarra and his brother, P/O Robert Yarra from rural NSW and their No.453 Sqn. Spitfires.

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A Balkans Bf 109 E-4/B

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on January 19, 2020December 7, 2021

Ever since I first saw a picture of the “crazy paving” camouflaged 109’s of JG 54 I’ve wanted to make one. After many a year of procrastination, here it is…

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The RCAF’s No.404 “Buffalo” Squadron

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on November 28, 2019December 7, 2021

Coastal Command’s war against the elements as well as the enemy as experienced by the RCAF’s No.404 “Buffalo” Squadron.

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  • Feature Article

Rudolf “Rudi” Müller’s Bf 109 G-2/R6 of 6/Jg5, April 1943

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on September 1, 2019December 7, 2021

An old model, a new set of pictures and a potentially controversial op-ed comprise this piece on Rudolf Müller’s Bf109G-2/R6.

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  • Feature Article

Lt. John “Ray” Johnson’s “Fighting Cocks” P-38L-1 Sep 1944 – Mar 1945

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on April 30, 2019December 7, 2021

The 13th Air Force did not fight the most glamorous of wars, theirs’ was a war of ground attack, relentlessly destroying Japanese ground forces and infrastructure. They fought, not from centralized bases closely tied together, but from island bases, spread hundreds of miles apart.

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