Operation Desert Storm – Fast Facts
Two Iraqi T-55 main battle tanks lie abandoned on the Basra-Kuwait Highway near Kuwait City after the release of Iraqi forces from the city during…
Kilroy Was Here: How a Graffiti Cartoon Bolstered the Troops of WWII
A little comic relief really does work to calm the nerves and reduce tension. A welcome and a nod can make a new and frightening…
When the Allies Killed Over 20,000 of Their Own Countrymen As They Sank Japanese Hell Ships That Transported Them
In May 1942 the Japanese began transferring POWs by sea. Similar to treatment on the Bataan Death March, prisoners were often crammed into cargo holds…
How Vietnam War POW Doug Hegdahl Tricked His Captors by Playing a Fool and Memorized the Names Of 256 POWs Of His Camp
Learn how very convincing Vietnam War POW Doug Hegdahl was at acting his “stupidly stupid” character while at the hands of his Vietnamese captors leading…
Pearl Harbor Movie, Ripped Apart by Honest Trailers (Watch)
Pearl Harbor, one of those movies that everybody has seen and everybody likes some bits of it. That is to say, only some bits; because…
Japanese Pilot Returned to US Oregon Town He Bombed During WWII
Nobuo Fujita is one of the only World War Two enemies to have tried bombing raids directly over mainland America. Nobuo died in 1997 aged…
Campaign Launched To Help Recover Our Vimy Heroes
A campaign to have Canadian World War One soldiers reinterred from their battle graves at Vimy Ridge has been started. To date over $20,000 has…
Amsterdam to Commemorate Wartime Strike against Jewish Deportation
The capital city of the Netherlands, Amsterdam, is preparing to come to a standstill during a commemoration in honor of a 1941 wartime strike designed…
Lucky WWll US army helmet is displayed in museum
The familiar olive coloured M1 steel helmet was first issued to US troops in 1941, and by 1942 all troops had them. The helmet was…
President John F Kennedy’s DC-3 Gift To Mobutu Found Back In Congo, SOS For The Scrapper
Chaotic Start of the Congo State. Until 1960, the Congo was under Belgian Colonial rule. On June 30 of that year, a huge new Central African…
Captured German Secret Weapons – Bachem Ba 349 and Ruhrstahl X-4 1945
In the Bavarian alps, in the final stages of the war in Europe, the allies discover the remains of some of Germany’s secret weapon program.…
Just Jugs: Just stunning images of P-47’s. Enjoy!
The Thunderbolt was one of the heaviest and largest fighter planes ever built; it was also only powered by a single piston engine. It was…