Royal Fail At the Royal Mail: “Best of British” Stamp Collection Confusing D-Day Beaches With Indonesia
In a modern world of instant, online messages and swift, online criticism, it didn’t take long for folks to notice the giant gaffe made by…
US Marine’s Remains Identified 77 Years After He Was Killed at Pearl Harbor
US Marine Jack Cremean was killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He was providing security on the USS Oklahoma when…
USA’s Oldest WWII Veteran Richard Overton Dies at 112
On May 3rd, 2016, a week before his 110th birthday, Richard Overton became the USA’s oldest living WWII veteran. The 112-year-old African-American veteran was hospitalized…
WW2 Continues: Bombs & Mines Threaten Safety of People in Estonia
Even when wars end and gunfire is silenced, their reverberations carry on for years, sometimes for decades. Conflicts like World War II leave scars that…
A New York Man Was Arrested for Using a Civil War-Era Cannon in a Dispute With His Neighbor – Like One Does
In this heavily populated world, where much of society lives cheek by jowl in large cities, it’s not uncommon to find a neighbor irritating. Indeed,…
Loose Change Nearly Cost Him His Life – But It Saved Him
Optatius Buyssens was on a reconnaissance mission near the Belgian town of Lebbeke in September 1914. The sound of loose change in his pocket attracted…
Browning Hi-Power: The WWII-Era Semi-Automatic Pistol Canada Struggled to Part Ways With
At the Armed Forces Skill at Arms (AFSAM) competition in 2017, the Canadian Armed Forces’ best marksmen arrived with 20 of their field-issued, World War…
US Venture Recovers 230,000 gallons of Oil From Wreck of WW2 German Heavy Cruiser Prinz Eugen
A warship that has been at the bottom of the ocean for more than seven decades has been lightened up considerably by a team of…
The Pinks & Greens Are Back: US Army Announces New Uniforms Based On Iconic WWII Design
On Veterans Day, the US Army made the announcement that they are returning to a uniform it issued during World War II. The uniform, then…
The P-38: The American Super-plane That The British Didn’t Want
During the Second World War, Adolf Hitler’s Luftwaffe was considered a formidable, ominous enemy by Allied pilots who took on the German planes over…
WWI: Herbert Hoover Saved Just Over Nine Million People From Starving
When imagining the ravages of World War I, it is easy to focus on the more than nine million soldiers who perished world wide. It…
Tuskegee Airman to be Returned to Arlington National Cemetery USA
On December 23rd, 1944, twenty-four-year-old Tuskegee Airman Lawrence Dickson took off in his Mustang P-51 on a reconnaissance mission over the Austro-Italian border. On his…