Your Country Needs You: The watery grave of Lord Horatio Kitchener – today the wreck lies upside down at a depth of around 40 fathoms & is designated as a war grave.
One of the most iconic images from the great war of 1914-18 is the recruitment poster featuring the commanding moustachioed face of the Lord Horatio…
Outnumbered Ten To One – firing until they had no ammunition left, then fighting with bayonets until all were eliminated
It was the 27th of July, 1880. In the incredible heat of the high Afghan summer, an army of two and a half thousand men…
The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, Rome’s Greatest Defeat And The Broken Remnants of a Glorious Army
Varus was crushed. His feet and hands and mind were numb with the freezing rain. His legions, so splendid and untouchable only days before, were…
Medal of Honor Warrior – Nominated 4 Times: Survived a Concentration Camp, Went Berserker & Took on the Korean Army with a .30 Caliber Machine Gun
Tibor Rubin, who was of Jewish descent, was captured by the Nazis during World War Two and was imprisoned in a concentration camp. Luckily, he…
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…
Fort Drum, the unsinkable concrete ‘battleship’ of Manila Bay
Anyone who pays a visit to Manila Bay will not easily forget the enchanting sight of the ruined concrete fort that looks as if it…
The Most Produced Warbirds of WWII
Manufacturers in World War II were engaged in the greatest industrial effort in history. Aircraft companies went from building a handful of planes at a…
Heroic End Of French Fleet – Scuttled 77 Ships To Avoid Capture By Nazi Germany
It was the middle of the night, and a large motorized force of Nazi German troops was descending on the port city of Toulon, on…
The Horten 229 V3 “Flying Wing” – Amazing Image Collection
The Horten Ho 229 is generally known by a few unique names. The plane was called the H.IX, by the Horten Brothers. The identity Ho…
Wounded Five Times And Awarded Germany’s Highest Award in WWII
Joachim von Ribbentrop is well known as the Nazi diplomat and foreign minister who negotiated the non-aggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union and…
Repelled 30 Taliban: 400 Rounds, Launched 17 Grenades, Detonated a Mine, and Used His Tripod as a Weapon
Acting Sergeant Dipprasad Pun of the Royal Gurkha Rifles was the lone guard on duty, patrolling a small two-story outpost on the edge of Helmand…
The Mines At Messines – Over 1 Million Tons of Explosives – 20 have detonated, but 5 remain
In 1917, the world was engulfed in war. For the first time, the economics of industry had been applied to warfare on a huge scale.…