History, Politics And Current Affairs

Another good update.

We can add 'Transformers' Peter Cullen Voice of Optimus Prime Dead at 85 to the Grim Reaper list.

Future South African President Nelson Mandela voting in a provincial election in 1988. Non-white voters were given the right to vote in local and provincial elections in 1987. However, they did not gain the right to vote in national general elections until 1992. The first general election to be hel...

OOC: I simply said what model I thought it was (B-52D) and stating that I thought that model did EASTERN EXPRESS alongside missions supporting friendly forces, and Matt confirmed it. I’m calling this one hard canon. OOC: becuase the otl picure was taken in only two years before in 1986, so i was su...

Wolfman wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2026 2:09 pm

Lordroel wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2026 1:47 pm OOC: so i mad not a mistake with posting this.

OOC: No mistake.

OOC: thanks, because it is hell of a picture.

OOC: so i mad not a mistake with posting this.

Photo: B-52 Stratofortress aircraft flies over cloud-covered ocean waters, silhouetted by the sun after returning from a EASTERN EXPRESS mission, 1988.

Wow, did i missed 65 days worth of fighting, still a good update.

Photo: IPM1 Abraham tanks during Operation PRAIRIE FIRE, 1987.

so the news goes that the US Navy weighs renaming carrier slated to honor Black war hero, potentially switching it to Trump, i alwlays hope that a Ford was named after a Legacy carrier, maybe Hornet, Saratoga, Yorktown ore Lexington.

Photo: view of a USMC AH-1W getting ready to launch shortly after undergoing emergency field repairs right in the middle of a main supply route during the Baja War, 2010.

Wolfman wrote: ↑Sat Aug 08, 2026 8:37 pm Staging through their prewar base works.

And trows of the Soviets who do not know if they they are permanent based there ore not.

Wolfman wrote: ↑Sat Aug 08, 2026 6:22 pmWorks for me.

Could it be like a Shuttle bombing like what the Americans/British did in WW II.

Lordroel, that’s a nice one, but current canon has the 48th TFW be recalled to the US to fight in the Eastern Theater along the Mississippi River and following those forces during PRAIRIE FIRE until the end of the war, getting at least partially shot out of F-111s, with Grumman A-6E(TRAM) Intruders...

Photo: A 48th Tactical Fighter Wing F-111F aircraft undergoes a preflight check prior to a strike targets somewhere in the Soviet Union, at RAF Lakenheath, 1989.

Photo: Leahy class guided missile cruiser USS Richmond K. Turner (CG-20) during combat operations in the mid-Atlantic with two accompanying Perry class frigates, 1987.

Wolfman wrote: ↑Fri Aug 07, 2026 12:32 am
If there’s a similar shot of F-4J(UK) aircraft, then substitute that and it would work as a shot of the 74 Sqn aircraft that flew with the 335th TFS around the time of Operation BOLO II…

If i find them, i will post them, thanks for the notice about the engines, never saw it myself.

Wolfman wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2026 1:04 pm No Spey engined Phantoms were sent to Texas.

OOC:Okay, then i remove it.

Would StanFlex not work, just think of it, sorry if it sounds crazy.

Photo: A pair of Royal Air Force Phantoms on a burner-pass somewhere over liberated Texas, 1988.