WANT TO RIDE A TIGER? WIN A RIDE IN TIGER 131 AT TANKFEST 25-26 JUNE!
The Tank Museum are offering people the chance to ride in Tiger 131 at this year’s Tankfest event, 25-26 June. The Tiger 131, a formidable…
Prisoner on Infamous Death Railway in WWII Celebrates 100th Birthday
Frank Kerridge, a former infantryman in the British Army during World War II, turned 100 on March 29th. This centenarian was captured during the war…
Australia’s Buried and Then Forgotten Soldiers
The Australian governments from the 1920s broke a promise that led to many ex-soldiers being buried without any recognition at all. As another Anzac Day…
The Manhattan Project’s Hanford Site Yields Difficult Questions
A family took a road trip to the Pacific Northwest. It was a father, mother and six-year-old daughter that traveled to Seattle and the Canadian…
What You Should Know About The Sherman Tank: An American Workhorse
Strength in numbers. This is exactly what the M-4 Sherman tank was good at in its heyday. World War II saw the rise of the…
Top 10 Greatest Military Blunders of World War II (Watch)
Why did the Allies win the Second World War? Did they have the best soldiers, or the best generals, or the most powerful weapons? Did…
The Day The Royal Marines Accidentally Launched An Amphibious Invasion of Spain
In 2002, a unit of 30 British Marines in a landing craft from the Royal Navy’s amphibious assault ship HMS Ocean, armed to the teeth, stormed onto a…
The Russian AK-47 versus the American M16
The AK-47 and the M16 were two important rifles of the period following the Second World War. The AK-47, often known as the Kalashnikov after…
Released Documents Reveal Hitler’s Plans for Nazi Metropolis in Munich
Munich officials have declassified and released over 2,000 documents and sketches that show Hitler’s fascinating plans to reconstruct Munich. The city was always dear to…
Forgotten Australian Radar Station Sites Rediscovered
Remnants of a radar station from World War II near Jurien Bay and 200 kilometers north of Perth have been found by a handful of…
Restored WWII P-51D Mustang Fighter Plane Unveiled
A fully restored P-51D Mustang, flown by the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II, was unveiled during a celebration at San Diego’s Gillespie Field in…
WWII in Color-Blitzkrieg Over Holland, Belgium and France (Watch)
It has been 76 years since Belgium, The Netherlands, and France were invaded by the German armies. A color video tells the story of the…