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Yugoslav Fighters In Spanish Civil War

Yugoslavs, who fought as volunteers in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side, are called “Spanish fighters” or “Yugoslav Spaniards.” Belgrade Association of Spanish…

Nukes underground –  Veteran discusses Cold War service in Minuteman II missile program

By Jeremy P. Amick In the book “The Missile Next Door: The Minuteman in the American Heartland,” author Gretchen Heefner wrote, “Between 1961 and 1967…

Tragedy At Sea – The Untold Story Of PT347, PT350 & PT346 – Sunk By Friendly Fire

Daniel Williams writes: My father’s story began early on the morning of April 29th, 1944 when during a mission aboard PT347 along with the PT350 to…

Jurassic Park of Aviation Found! How WWII Built Aircraft Still Struggle For Survival In New Age

The remnants of an abandoned airplane stretched out in the Desert of “Memories of bygone days“. The type has long gone extinct. Except for a…

Top 10 Monsters of the Sky

We’ve flipped through the pages of aviation history to bring you ten of the biggest, heaviest, weirdest and most astounding aircraft ever built. Antonov An-225…

The Secret Underground Airbase Sipcanik – Now A Massive Wine Cellar

Yugoslavia was spending billions of dollars to build underground air bases, coast guard battery which was carved into the rocks, underground dock, radar and electronic…

First down on Yamato – By Barry Smith

On the morning of Saturday, April 7th, 1945 tension aboard the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-12) was times a thousand.  The fighter pilots with Hornet’s Air…

Missiles of our past – Veteran enlisted in Army missile program to acquire electronics training

By Jeremy P. Amick The Cold War, for many, was a period in our nation’s history filled with anxieties and fears as the United States…

The “White Lily ” Lydia Litvyak, The Jewish Soviet Fighter Ace

Lydia Litvyak was a Soviet flight instructor who had trained 45 pilots by the time the Germans invaded the Soviet Union. She began flying when…

The Australian Armour and Artillery Museum

Most boys were content with plastic model kits and watching TV shows like Combat! and The Rat Patrol, but not Rob Lowden. Lowden’s collection is…

Georgian Uprising and Subsequent Massacre on Texel – Western Europe’s Last Battle Of WWII

This was not the actual last battle in Europe, although I believe it is the last one in Western Europe. However, this story is a fascinating…

The Hellenic Navy vessel that fought on D-Day and became a WW2 floating museum

After the Second World War, many ships that were not sold for scrap metal, were transferred to allied countries. One of those vessels, the LST-325 (Landing…