Normandy Invasion Beaches From a Different Angle
Ten years or so ago I was lucky enough to fly along the invasion beaches at 800′ in a C-47. If you ever get the…
When Cavalry Captured A Fleet Trapped In Ice – A Unique Event In Military History
Fifty miles north of Amsterdam in the depths of the freezing winter of 1795, a fleet lay at anchor. It sat upon the Zuiderzee, a…
Rommel’s Last Battle in North-Africa – Costly Failure At Medenine
The hot Tunisian sun beat down on the steel of tanks and armoured personnel carriers, planes strafed the artillery positions and the tracks of tanks…
Constantinople: Holding The Walls At All Costs
At dawn, the leaders of the defense gazed out west from the walls of Constantinople. The two Byzantine commanders, Bonus and Sergius, did not speak…
Admiral Nelson’s Decisive Victory Over The French at Alexandria
Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson, the rising star of the British Royal Navy, had been pursuing the fleet of the French Republic around the Mediterranean for two…
Outnumbered Ten To One – Rallying To The Flag Until The End
It was July 27, 1880. In the incredible heat of the high Afghan summer, an army of two and a half thousand men marched toward…
Wounded, He Sacrificed Himself to Clear the way for his Platoon – James Stokes, VC
Private James Stokes’ thirtieth birthday was February 6th, 1945. On the 1st of March, less than one month later, he came to the end of…
Tom Hanks is teaming up with Dale Dye for a new D-Day movie No Better Place to Die
Tom Hanks has teamed with war movie legend Dale Dye as Executive Producer on No Better Place to Die, a film that will detail the…
Archives reveal Rangers fighting for their lives dispatched 12 German prisoners at Pointe du Hoc
As many US newspapers start to put their documents from the past years online – many long forgotten stories and interviews are coming to light.…
Teddy Roosevelt Leads The Charge Of The Rough Riders At The Battle Of San Juan Heights
Roosevelt’s Rough Riders had been taking fire all morning. They were pinned down, lying flat in the negligible cover of the reeds, rushes and tall…
Frederick the Great, Defeating A Superior Enemy: Leuthen, 1757
The snow muffled all sound save the moan of the wind. The winter skeletons of trees showed black against the blank canvas. Grey sky heavy…
Not just beautiful images, this gorgeous halftrack is for sale – a real time warp
A workhorse of WW2 the halftrack would operate in all theatres. The maximum speed on road was 45 mph. The turning diameter was 59 ft, maximum…