10 Facts: Five Star American World War Two General Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur, born on 26 January 1880 was an American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of…
Historic WWII Landing Ship Tank visits Vicksburg
Vicksburg is honored to have a venerable old lady, in the form of WWII tank landing ship, LST 325, placed in the dock. This fully functioning…
Newspaper Magnate Was on Friendly Terms with Nazis
Files released under the Freedom of Information Act to the editor of Gizmodo’s Paleofuture blog reveal that Norman Chandler, who became publisher of the Los…
Mexican – American War Remains Return Home
The US army’s chief medical examiner and director of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System, Col. Louis Finelli, says it’ll take a few months to…
20 Outstanding Soundtracks from War Movies – Watch The Videos
20 amazing soundtracks from war movies! And because beauty is in the eye of the beholder, it’s not any top 20, the order is completely random,…
The Japanese Tried A Second Raid On Pearl Harbor – It Was Not A Success
Everyone knows about the first bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Less well known, however, was the second attack. And there was almost a third……
The Scale of The US Airforce Warplane Boneyard is Mind Boggling!
Arizona is the final resting place of US Airforce’s aircraft and has been since World War Two ended. There are thousands of aircraft that have…
Helicopter Door Gunners are Awesome – Aerial Gunnery in UH-1Y
Watch the Marine Light Attack Training Squadron 303 in a UH-1Y Huey helicopter give close air support as part of a training exercise on February…
Appeal Brings A Respectful Crowd Out To Honor A British D-Day Hero
Many of those who attended the funeral of Second World War veteran Douglas Oswald Shallcross, 92, didn’t know him or his name perhaps only days…
Faces of Evil: Female Concentration Camp Guards
Up until 1942, guards at concentrations camps within Adolf Hitler’s Empire were primarily male. That all changed in 1942 when the first female guards were appointed…
Why the Rosenbergs Were Executed
On April 5th, 1951, Judge Irving Kaufman sentenced Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death. He called them traitors who put “into the hands of the…
Epic: Recovering The Last Luftwaffe Float Plane From A Fjord In Norway 70 Years After It Sank
The twin-engined, three seater float plane was originally bought by the Norwegian Navi Air services in 1939. It was used by the Norwegians against the…