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Project Habakkuk: The Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier Made of Ice

British inventor Geoffrey Pyke proposed building an aircraft carrier from 'Pykrete' — a mixture of 86% sawdust and 14% water frozen together. Pykrete was as strong as concrete but would float. The ship, called Habakkuk, would have been 2,000 feet lon…

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The Air Truce of December 20, 1943: Franz Stigler's Act of Mercy

German Luftwaffe pilot Leutnant Franz Stigler spotted a badly damaged American B-17 bomber named 'Ye Olde Pub,' piloted by 2nd Lt. Charles 'Charlie' Brown, limping across the North Sea on the way back from a bombing raid over Bremen. The B-17 had los…

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