Ex- Serviceman’s Son Builds Replica of RAF Waddington S-Sugar Bomber Fuselage
For the last eight years, Martin Willoughby has used his time to build a fuselage modeled on that of the Lancaster R5868, S-Sugar. This was…
Veterans from WWII All-Black Aviation Unit On How They Overcame Racial Bias
Charles McGee was an accomplished World War II fighter pilot and Army Captain. Ten years later, he was unable to get a job as a…
World War ll Jeeps Still Going Strong In Thai Village After 70 Years!
One of the problems with iconic products is that when they were first designed their manufacturers had no idea of the future status of their…
USS Arizona – Life and Death of The Ill Fated Battleship (Pictures)
The infamous Pennsylvania-class battleship, the USS Arizona, was built by the United States for the US Navy in the mid-1910s. The battleship class was named…
4 Times When Running Away Was the Better Than Standing And Fighting
The Spartan stand at Thermopylae is greatly celebrated, both when it happened and to the modern day. Those men were destined to perish as soon…
WWII Relic Hunting On The Eastern Front – Digging Up History (Watch)
In this video report of a mine detector trip, you will see several interesting relics that have been found, including several weapons, magazines, canteens and other…
8 Things You Need to Know About the 1940 Rotterdam Terror Bombing
The Battle of Rotterdam began May 10th, 1940, and ended with the bombings on Rotterdam May 14th, 1940. German forces saw the Netherlands as an opportune…
New eye-witness account sheds light on who killed the Red Baron
Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, also known as the Red Baron, was a feared and celebrated German fighter pilot during WWI. He was considered an…
Russia’s New Tank Fleet
The new T-14 Armata tank is considered by many analysts to be the most advanced tank Russia has ever produced and a match for the…
Postwar Warsaw Rebuilt from 18th Century Paintings
Polish and Nazi forces clashed violently in and around Warsaw in August of 1944. Polish citizens sought to free themselves from the “dark, black and…
JUTLAND 1916 The Archaeology of a Naval Battlefield – Review by Mark Barnes
A hundred years ago the greatest naval battle of the First World War took place when the British and German fleets clashed in the North…
The Forgotten South Vietnamese Soldiers of the Vietnam War
April 30th, 1975, was the day that South Vietnamese veterans of the Vietnam War lost their country. That’s the day the North Vietnamese finally won…