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Nine Essential Places In France For War History Enthusiasts To Visit

The top countries in Europe offer a variety of post-war sites to see, whether your interest lies in World War II, World War I or…

When His Navigator Ejected Halfway Out The Plane, The Heroic Pilot Just Managed To Land And Save His Buddy’s Life

Being launched off the flight deck of an aircraft carrier is a normal routine, but adrenaline junkie pilots love the radical feel of about 4…

Quickly raising armies in the English Civil War – the infantry, or Foot, were divided into two basic units, the pikes & the muskets

By Guest Blogger Jemahl Evans England in the middle of the Seventeenth Century was the most demilitarized nation in Europe. Contemporary accounts claimed that at the…

No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy – The Intellectual Genius Of General James “Mad Dog” Mattis

Often referred to as the General Patton of the modern era, General James “Mad Dog” Mattis once told a group of Iraqi tribal elders “I…

Battle of Berlin – The Soviets Hammering The Nail In the Coffin Of The Third Reich

For a war that left 60 million dead, countless lives permanently destroyed and hundreds of thousands homeless and in need, the Battle of Berlin proved…

Outnumbered Ten To One – Rallying To The Flag Until The End

Jack Beckett

It was July 27, 1880. In the incredible heat of the high Afghan summer, an army of two and a half thousand men marched toward…

Admiral Nelson’s Decisive Victory Over The French at Alexandria

Jack Beckett

Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson, the rising star of the British Royal Navy, had been pursuing the fleet of the French Republic around the Mediterranean for two…

Lt. Presley O’Bannon, the Marine Corps Mameluke Sword, and the Shores of Tripoli Before It Was a Hymn

Jeff Edwards

People say many things about the United States Marine Corps, but one thing they can not say is that these mighty warriors of the modern…

Picked up a Sub-machine Gun At Goose Green and Charged the Argentine Trenches – it is worth noting that as an officer of a high rank who would typically be further back from the front lines

Jeff Edwards

Perhaps it is because the war only lasted ten weeks and occurred during a period when the US-Soviet Cold War was the backdrop for most…

How Climate Change Helped the Swedes March Across A Frozen Sea And Defeat The Danes

Shahan Russell

It all started in 1655 during the Second Northern War. Sweden was fighting against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Russia, Brandenburg-Prussia, the Habsburg Monarchy, Denmark-Norway, and sometimes,…

Saint Nazaire The Best Raid of WW2: Massive Intel, Courage, Sacrifice and Big Explosions

A little after 1:20 AM on March 28, 1942, searchlights on both sides of the Loire Estuary flooded the waterway to reveal a convoy. Twelve…

Outnumbered & With Taliban Overrunning the Base, Clinton Romesha Was Awarded MoH at the Battle of Kamdesh

Jeff Edwards

The Battle of Kamdesh would be one of the costliest battles for the Americans of the entire Afghanistan conflict as it saw an American outpost…