German President Remembers Soviet Sacrifices In WWII
German President Joachim Gauck, speaking at Berlin’s Soviet War Memorial on Wednesday 22nd June 2016, acclaimed the Russian victims of Germany’s Operation Barbarossa, 75 years…
Michael Herr Died – His Dispatches Brought The Vietnam War Home
“Dispatches is beyond politics, beyond rhetoric, beyond ‘pacification’ and body counts and the ‘psychotic vaudeville’ of Saigon press briefings. Its materials are fear and death,…
Captured World War I-era Machine Gun Refurbished And On Display
Officials at the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site sent a World War I-era machine gun to Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia, to be restored. It has…
Eyewitness Testimony of Atomic Attack Preserved In ‘Hiroshima Archive’
An interactive mapping project has recently been translated in order to combine first-hand testimony from the many witnesses. The goal is to comprehensively document the…
Sea King Helicopters Sold as Man Caves
Sea King helicopters retired by the UK Ministry of Defense are being sold to make unique sheds and ‘man caves.’ The Sea Kings were once…
Marine Visits Grave of Relative Who Died in D-Day Invasion
Marine Corps Corporal Joshua Bettis is an outbound clerk in the distribution management office at Headquarters and Service Battalion at Henderson Hall, Virginia. His interest…
94-year-old Veteran Receives Legion D’Honneur
Tony Kemmery, 94, of Broomground, Winsley, received the Legion D’Honneur medal from the French Ambassador recently. Kemmery was an Airborne Medic with the 6th Air-landing…
Manhattan Project App Allows Users to Tour Secret WWII Lab
When efforts were made during the Second World War to construct an atomic bomb, it was shrouded in total secrecy. However, today the story is…
Three World War II Veterans Receive Their High School Diplomas
Three World War II veterans, all best friends, graduated from high school on June 13th – 71 years after being drafted to serve in the…
Himmler’s Witches Library Discovered in the Czech Republic
The library of books about the occult accumulated by Heinrich Himmler, Nazi SS chief, was discovered this month in the Czech Republic. He reportedly believed…
Controversial Statue to Nazi Collaborator Nzhdeh Erected In Armenia
A statue was recently erected in the Armenian capital of Yerevan in honor of Garegin Ter-Harutyunyan, also known as Garegin Nzhdeh. The statue is drawing…
Secret German WWII Code Machine Found On Ebay For £10
One should not be surprised by the astounding variety of odd things that are advertised on eBay – it has often proved to be a…