DefenceTalkWreckage from the USS Lexington, a US aircraft carrier which sank during World War II, has been found in the Coral Sea, a search team led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announced Monday. The wreckage was found Sunday by the team’s research vessel, the R/V Petrel, some 3,000 meters (two miles) below the surface more […]https://www.defencetalk.com/wreckage-found-of-wwii-aircraft-carrier-uss-lexington-71543/

DefenceTalkBefore there could be women flying combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, there were the pioneers of the Army Air Forces of World War II. On July 5, 1943, the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron, or WAFS, and the Women’s Flying Training Detachment merged into a single unit for all female pilots. The new group called […]https://www.defencetalk.com/wasps-first-women-in-history-to-fly-for-us-army-air-corps-67077/

DefenceTalkGerman Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said Tuesday that the issue of whether Germany should pay reparations to Greece for the Nazi occupation during World War II had been settled, while not denying the country’s moral responsibility. Athens’ new radical leftist government has stepped up pressure on Berlin over the emotional and controversial issue of war […]https://www.defencetalk.com/germanys-schaeuble-insists-greece-war-payments-settled-64111/