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Bismarck: 24 Hours to Doom (80th Anniversary Edition)

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Iain Ballantyne, Agora Books 2021 Bismarck: 24 Hours to Doom is an intensely readable account of the final days of the titular battleship, centring the voices of those who were […]

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HMS Ark Royal, WW2 History

Dauntless: The Battle of Midway review

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Today (21 October 2019) is the release date for ‘Dauntless: The Battle of Midway’ on DVD, Blu-Ray and digital download/streaming, and as a rare example of a feature film about […]

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WW2 History

Malta convoys novella ‘Harpoon’ published

June 6, 2019by navalairhistory Leave a comment

I am pleased to announce the publication of the first of three novellas from Sharpe publishing, set during the Malta convoys in the summer of 1942, when the island was […]

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Historical fiction, WW2 History

Long Live the ‘King

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If all goes to plan on Wednesday 26 September, the last Westland Sea King helicopters in UK military service will make a farewell flight around the Devon-Cornwall peninsula, where the […]

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Cold War, Falklands conflict, Fleet Air Arm, Postwar history
Blackburn Blackburd

New series of blogs on Global Maritime History

May 14, 2018by navalairhistory Leave a comment

The first of a series of new blogposts by Naval Air History author Matthew Willis was published today on the Global Maritime History site. The series takes a look at […]

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Prototypes, Test flying, WW1 History

The Fleet Air Arm in the Battle of Britain

September 15, 2017by navalairhistory Leave a comment

The involvement of the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm is relatively little known and while numerically small, had a significant impact on the Battle. Two squadrons of the Royal Navy’s […]

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WW2 History

HMS Queen Elizabeth

August 16, 2017by navalairhistory Leave a comment

At approximately seven o’clock on the morning of 16 August 2017, the Royal Navy’s newest and largest aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, entered her home port of Portsmouth for the […]

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Fleet Air Arm, HMS Queen Elizabeth, Postwar history

Falklands Air War – Aviation Xtended podcasts

July 12, 2017by navalairhistory Leave a comment

I was delighted to take part in two recent episodes of the aeronautical podcast Aviation Xtended to mark the 35th anniversary of the end of the 1982 Falklands conflict. This […]

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Falklands conflict, Fleet Air Arm, Postwar history

The Night the Zeppelin fell to Earth – WW1 centenary

September 23, 2016by navalairhistory 1 Comment

On the morning of 24 September 1916, two vast, skeletal wrecks lay sprawled across the Essex countryside – the remains of two of the German naval air service’s newest and […]

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WW1 History

Matt Willis joins British Naval History

September 1, 2016by navalairhistory Leave a comment

Naval Air History’s Matthew Willis has joined the British Naval History team with a regular blog – see posts here The first post ‘The Flying-off Platform- an Evolutionary Dead End?’ […]

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Miscellaneous

Two (and a bit) new blogs on ‘Hush Kit’

April 14, 2016by navalairhistory Leave a comment

Naval Air History has recently contributed to two pieces on Hush Kit, ‘the alternative aviation magazine’ The 11 Worst X-Planes When music is terrible the artist will often describe it […]

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Miscellaneous, Test flying

Sopwith Pup book available!

November 4, 2015by navalairhistory Leave a comment

I’m delighted to announce that my book on the Sopwith Pup WW1 biplane fighter is available. The Sopwith Pup, as it is unofficially but universally known, was one of the […]

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RNAS, WW1 History

The Hawker Sea Fury and HMS Illustrious

September 7, 2015by navalairhistory 1 Comment

My thanks are again due to Dave Bull for sharing his collection of classic photographs with Naval Air History. These photographs date from the immediate postwar period when the battered […]

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Fleet Air Arm, HMS Illustrious, Postwar history

Fairey Swordfish – fluke victor?

July 7, 2015by navalairhistory 12 Comments

An acquaintance who has no small knowledge of military matters put the following to me recently: ‘We all have different perspectives and experiences and mine lead me to say this: […]

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Fleet Air Arm, History and its lessons, HMS Ark Royal, Pre-war fleet air arm, WW2 History

USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71

April 9, 2015by navalairhistory Leave a comment

Last month, the US Navy supercarrier USS Theodore Roosevelt visited the UK. This provided an excellent opportunity for UK naval aviation enthusiasts to see at first-hand what the largest and […]

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Postwar history, Supercarriers, US Navy

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The first of three novellas from Sharpe Books was released in June 2019 – ‘Harpoon’ chronicles the struggles of a Sea Hurricane pilot on the vital Malta convoys of 1942. Available from Amazon

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