The Short Life of the Anti-tank Rifle – the Browning M2 and Others
Armored tanks were first used on a large scale during World War One. It didn’t take long after their appearance on the battlefield for arms…
WWI Canary Babies Were Borne Yellow Because Their Mothers Worked As Munitionettes
The last surviving ‘Canary Babies’ have told their story of how their skin was a tinge of yellow after their mothers worked in explosives factories…
Royal Mint: Battle of Hastings to Get Coin This Year 2016
The Royal Mint will be releasing new coins this year to commemorate several milestones including the 950th anniversary of the historical Battle of Hastings and…
World War II Veteran To Reunite With Wartime Girlfriend
Just before daybreak on 6th June 1944, men of the US 101st Airborne Division parachuted into the French countryside, about five miles inland from a…
This Transport Company Was Asked To Transport A Dakota, You Will Not Believe How They Crashed It…
In my previous Blogs Ghosts of the Gooney Bird, I showed pictures of crashed, lost and derelict Douglas C-47’s/ DC-3’s/ Dakotas. Most of them are…
Captured B-17 Bombers in World War II
Ever wondered what happened with a B-17 that made an emergency landing in occupied territory? When captured (relatively) intact they were tested by the Germans…
Fantastic WWII Pictures of the B-24 Witchcraft Throughout Her Career
The B-24 Liberator was, together with the B-17, the workhorse of the United States Army Airforces who used it in every theater of operations. It…
Hitler’s Kamikaze V1 Meant to Destroy London
There is much to be said about the mind of Hitler. He was certainly a madman with insanely ingenious ideas that shored up his short-lived…
Thousands of tons of unexploded Second World War bombs in Germany
German bomb-disposal experts are the busiest in the world. Each year they deal with more than 2,000 tons of high explosives – mainly Second World…
RAF Veteran On Stand-by With Vulcan Bomber During Cuban Missile Crisis
A Royal Air Force veteran has claimed to have been aboard a plane carrying atomic weapon during the Cuban Missile Crisis Geoff Bainbridge joined the…
A GROUP PHOTOGRAPH – Review by Mark Barnes for War History Online.
Christmas in 2015 was a bit weird due to recent changes in my life and I was never much of a fan anyway. I don’t…
Restored Military Equipment Presented to US National Museum
Having been painstakingly restored to their former glory, a couple of interesting historical relics that have seen U.S. war action have been presented to a…