In World War One, Christmas Truces Happened More Often Than Previously Thought
In 1914, soldiers on both sides of the line stopped fighting, left the trenches and played football together on Christmas Day. It is one of…
New Location For Military Cenotaph Up In The Air
Royal Canadian Legion Branch 3 in Toronto, Canada, is facing a dilemma: where to move a 7.5 meter, solid granite cenotaph. The branch is closing,…
Historic Structure In Ontario Is Under Threat
A motorist driving by what once was known as the Eatonville Roadhouse in southwestern Ontario, Canada, would never guess it’s possibly the last piece of…
China’s New High-Tech Frigate
China has commissioned a new warship. On December 29th, a Type 054A Jiangkai II-class frigate named Binzhou entered the East Sea Fleet according to images…
Battle Of Arnhem Veteran Passes Away
Gordon (Curly) Harding passed away early in December. He was one of only a few surviving members of the 3rd Parachute Regiment that fought at…
Brave Woman Who Saved Hundreds Of Lives In The Holocaust Dies In The US Aged 96
Marion Pritchard, recognized in 1981 by Yad Vashem, the memorial in Jerusalem to victims of the Holocaust in World War II, as one of the…
The Tragic Sinking Of The Ship Leopoldville In WW2
On Christmas Eve, the 66th Infantry Division was called up to join the Battle of the Bulge. Thousands of soldiers wandered the docks in…
War Museum Releases Book of Previously Unreleased WWI Memoirs
The British Imperial War Museum (IWM) has released a book, “In Their Own Words,” featuring the letters of eleven people and telling their never-before-released stories…
A Last Game Of Football Before Going To War
After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the US military would not allow the Rose Bowl game to be played in Pasadena,…
The Reliable, Multi-Purpose F-4 Phantom Workhorse Has Been Retired
The venerable F-4 Phantom, the workhorse for the U.S. military for over 50 years, could be described as one those aircraft that was a jack…
Scientific Discoveries From Recent Studies Of The Interior Of The USS Arizona
Clearly, the deputy chief and photographer of the National Park Service’s Submerged Resources Center (SRC) has been touched by the latest images from the sunken…
Tanker’s Account Of The Battle Of The Bulge In The Second World War
In mid-December 1944, the 37th Tank Battalion, 4th Armored Division, led by Lt. Col. Creighton W. Abrams, was linked to the 87th Infantry Division and…