Russian Company Builds Replica T-35 Tank
A metal-working company in Russia’s Ural region has recreated the Soviet T-35 tank by referring to Soviet-era drawings. The replica tank will sit in the…
Success at Last – One Woman’s Determination to Get Granddad’s Auctioned Medals Back Into The Family
Mandy McClean sat with her ear glued to the telephone listening to the bids as they slowly climbed. They passed her estimate of £700, passed…
Decades On From The Battlefield of El Alamein, These Old Veterans Can Shake Hands and Be Friends
Seventy-four years is too long a time to hold onto a grudge, and so when 95-year-old German Leutnant, Gunter Halm met up with 96-year-old British…
Callously Stolen, Returned With Respect – The Mystery of the Memorial Flag
Nineteen-year-old Seaman Patrick Corcoran died aboard the USS Frank E. Evans during the Vietnam War. His family’s neighbors flew his memorial flag in front of…
The 1941 Battle of Smolensk In 20 Stunning Pictures
The Battle of Smolensk was a large-scale battle during the opening stages of the Nazi German invasion of the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa, in World…
Warfare through the ages at the Tank Museum
Visitors to The Tank Museum can expect to be taken back in time, at the Warfare Through the Ages historical re-enactment event, on Saturday 6…
Easy Company Soldiers and Band Of Brothers Actors (Watch)
Easy company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division; almost everybody has heard of them one way or another. They were paratroopers,…
Recovering Remains of Marines From “one square mile of hell” – Tarawa Atoll
Private Robert Carter’s remains were buried under crushed coral at an old shipyard for 72 years. Because his fellow Marines refused to leave him behind,…
Courts Rule to Reinstate Citizenship of Former Nazi Death Squad Member
92-year-old Helmut Oberlander of Waterloo, Ontario, is accused of being a member of a Nazi death squad. The Canadian government is trying to revoke his…
A-26 Invader Nose Gear Collapses On Landing
On Monday, July 25th, the A-26 Invader “Silver Dragon” suffered a nose gear collapse on landing at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2016. The crew had already…
New Book Sheds Light on Ravensbrück Concentration Camp
Ravensbrück was the only concentration camp built by the Nazis specifically for women. Located 50 miles north of Berlin, it opened four months before the…
What a Sound! Vintage WW2 Planes Perform Flyover Tribute to One of the Last of the Few! (Watch)
Percy Beake was one of the last of ‘The Few’ who battled for Britain in the skies over Europe during World War II. He passed…