RapidFireWeb Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) HMCS Coverdale (NRS) (Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3201525) Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service member operating direction-finding equipment at HMCS Coverdale, Riverview, New Brunswick. She is posing for a promotional photo in front of a CNF-4 console at Coverdale in August, 1945. The loudspeaker at her right wrist was … Read more
How did they steer Noah’s Ark, and how was it propelled? (90s Life illustration) Noah’s Ark resting on Mount Ararat after the flood is one of the most enduring biblical mysteries. According to the Book of Genesis, after a global flood wiped out all life, Noah’s Ark came to rest on the “mountains of Ararat.” … Read more
British and Allied Formations Under the Command of the First Canadian Army, (5 May 1945) I British Corps (1 August 1944 to 1 April 1945) 6th Airborne Division (to 3 September 1944), including 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion 1st Belgian Infantry Brigade (10 August 1944 to 10 September 1944) Prinses Irene Brigade, Royal Netherlands Motorized … Read more
I Canadian Corps, 1942-1945 The formation sign used to identify vehicles associated with corps-level units. I Canadian Corps (April 1942 to November 1943; February 1945 to July 1945). The Corps was attached to the British Eighth Army in Italy from November 1943 to February 1945. An unnumbered Canadian Corps was the first corps-level military formation … Read more
II Canadian Corps, 1943-1945 The formation sign used to identify vehicles associated with II Canadian Corps-level units. II Canadian Corps (15 January 1943 to 25 June 1945) 2nd Canadian Infantry Division 3rd Canadian Infantry Division 4th Canadian Armoured Division 1st Polish Armoured Division, August 1944 to May 1945 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division, January to March, 1945 … Read more
Imperial Japanese Navy, Heavy Aircraft Carriers of the Second World War Heavy carriers Fleet Carrier, Class, Type, Ships, Years in Service, Displacement Akagi-class (IJN Photo) The Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Akagi undergoing trials off Iyonada, 17 June 1927. Early in her career, she was fitted with three flight decks; the two lower decks were later … Read more
Imperial Japanese Navy Heavy Cruisers of the Second World War (IJN Photo) Imperial Japanese Navy Cruiser Division 5, the Ashigara, Haguro, and Nachi (R to L), taken from the Myoko, 1936. Battlecruisers (jun’yōsenkan), Kongō-class Four Kongo-class battlecruisers were built for the IJN just before the First World War. Designed in the UK, the lead ship of … Read more
Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) battleships of the Second World War (IJN Photo) IJN battleship Yamato running machinery trials off Bungo Strait (outside Sukumo Bay) on 20 October 1941. In December 1941, at the beginning of the Second World War in the Pacific, the Imperial Japanese Navy was the third most powerful navy in the world, … Read more
Japanese submarines of the Second World War (Official USN Photo, located at the US National Archives, CVE-29 Photo, 80-G-353701) Former IJN units at Kure harbour, Honshu, Japan, on 12 October 1945. Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) submarines formed by far the most varied fleet of submarines of the Second World War, including manned torpedoes (Kaiten), midget … Read more
Imperial Japanese Navy Heavy cruisers (jū jun’yōkan) Furutaka, Kako, Aoba, Kinugasa, Myōkō, Nachi, Ashigara, Haguro, Takao, Atago, Chokai, Maya, Mogami, Mikuma, Suzuya, Kumano, Tone, and Chikuma Imperial Japanese Navy Heavy Cruiser Furutaka (IJN Photo) Imperial Japanese Navy heavy cruiser Furutaka on speed trials, June 1939. Ship. Builder. Class and type. Displacement (tons). Commissioned into IJN. Fate. … Read more
