From Jockey to Tunnel Rat – Viet Nam Vet Tells His Story
Standing only five foot tall in a line of thirty other young men, Kennith Ritchie waited for what everyone knew what was to come –…
Top 6 Great Guns in the History of The US Army
Images Used (Clockwise from top Left): (1) A Beretta M9 (2) US Marines on board the USS Blue Ridge and training with Beretta M9 pistols…
The Russian AK-47 versus the American M16
The AK-47 and the M16 were two important rifles of the period following the Second World War. The AK-47, often known as the Kalashnikov after…
Doctor Seeks Funding To Recover B-24 Photo Queen
A doctor from New Jersey has been searching for a missing World War Two plane that crashed in New Guinea during the war, and it…
SAS Legend & Mountaineer John ‘Brummie’ Stokes Dies
John ‘Brummie’ Stokes was both a gentleman and a man’s man. He was born in 1945 in the village of Hamstead near Birmingham. His parents…
The A10 Warthog Will Not Be Retired After All!
Known to its many admirers as ‘The Warthog’, the US Air Force’s A10 Thunderbolt is essentially a flying gun. The A10 carries the 30mm GAU-8…
The Man Who Refused To Launch Nuclear Missiles During The Cuban Missile Crisis – Saving The World!
The fact that you can read this is because of a man who said “no” due to an accident. In doing so, he literally saved the world.…
The Day The Royal Marines Accidentally Launched An Amphibious Invasion of Spain
In 2002, a unit of 30 British Marines in a landing craft from the Royal Navy’s amphibious assault ship HMS Ocean, armed to the teeth, stormed onto a…
Spanish Court Orders Exhumation of Civil War Victim
The Spanish civil war of 1936-1939 was a classic struggle between Nationalist and Republican supporters. Spain had been in a state of turmoil since the…
Vietnam Vets relive Loaches and Cameraderie.
Early in November 2014, ten silver-haired warriors gathered at the Omni Hilton Head Oceanfront Resort in Palmetto Dunes on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina for…
WOW! High School Football Game Stopped Because US student Wanted To Thank World War Two Veterans
A student from a Louisiana high school stopped a game of football at the school because he wanted to thank the World War Two veterans…
B-17 Flying Fortress launching Nazi V-1 Buzz Bombs and more odd post-war conversions
This Dakota Hunter Blog is about post-war tests with US built copies of the Nazi V-1 Buzz Bomb from a B-17 Flying Fortress plus loads…