9 Fascinating Facts About July 4th
With July 4th fast approaching, American families are stocking up on fireworks, lighting up the barbecues and getting ready for a fun-filled long weekend. While…
Pacific Plane Wrecks, Amazing pictures of Abandoned WWII planes
The Pacific Islands are still littered with plane wrecks from the fighting that took place there in WWII. Planes that crash landed in remote locations…
Model of 1919 Thompson Submachine Gun – the original Tommy gun (Watch)
Black and white gangster movies from the 1930’s were, and still are, hugely popular. The weapon of choice in these movies is almost always…
10 Underhanded Ways The Spanish Franco Regime Aided Hitler And The Axis Powers in WWII
Most histories of the Second World War tell the same story of the clash between the Allied and the Axis powers. German and Italian forces…
Top 7 Biggest Bunkers Ever Built
The cold war may be long over, and certain installations have been abandoned, but the powers that be still have and maintain bunkers in preparation…
Fergus Anckorn – Saved His Fellow POWs By Performing Magic Tricks!
Fergus Anckorn who, during WWII, used magic as a means of saving both his own life and the lives of those around him, was born…
German President Remembers Soviet Sacrifices In WWII
German President Joachim Gauck, speaking at Berlin’s Soviet War Memorial on Wednesday 22nd June 2016, acclaimed the Russian victims of Germany’s Operation Barbarossa, 75 years…
Michael Herr Died – His Dispatches Brought The Vietnam War Home
“Dispatches is beyond politics, beyond rhetoric, beyond ‘pacification’ and body counts and the ‘psychotic vaudeville’ of Saigon press briefings. Its materials are fear and death,…
Captured World War I-era Machine Gun Refurbished And On Display
Officials at the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site sent a World War I-era machine gun to Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia, to be restored. It has…
Eyewitness Testimony of Atomic Attack Preserved In ‘Hiroshima Archive’
An interactive mapping project has recently been translated in order to combine first-hand testimony from the many witnesses. The goal is to comprehensively document the…
Top 5 Best Assault Rifles
An assault rifle has to meet a certain set of criteria. It must be select-fire and use an intermediate cartridge. In this video we explain…
Ron Jones – The Goalkeeper of Auschwitz
Ron Jones was 23 when he became a POW in North Africa in 1942. He recalls the moment of his capture very well ― he…