Dr Sanjay Gupta Drill Bit Surgery To Save Marine Shot In The Head In Iraq
In 2003, the US invaded Iraq, allegedly because it had weapons of mass destruction. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, author, neurosurgeon, and medical correspondent for CNN, was…
Medal of Honor: The Man War Couldn’t Kill, Jumps On Two Grenades, Falls Out of An Airplane. Survives
For many young people, the outbreak of the greatest War this planet had ever seen would come just a little too early for them to…
To Throw His Grenade He Crawled To Within 5 Meters of Taliban Sniper When He Was Hit By A Bullet And Killed By His Own Grenade, Awarded VC
Not all war stories have a happy ending and, in fact, one might make the case that most do not. This is ever truer when…
Killed By Friendly Fire, He Charged Alone Into A Cornfield To Silence Taliban, His Body Was Found Next To 3 Dead Enemies
The Victoria Cross is the United Kingdom’s highest military honor and one of the most esteemed recognitions for gallantry in combat in the global military…
Kamikaze Pilots: Japan’s Suicide Squad in WWII
“Transcend life and death. Eliminate all thoughts about your life and your death. Only then you will disregard your earthly life totally. You will…
The sniper who managed to kill an enemy with a half-mile sniper shot which curved 56 feet (17 m.) in the air before hitting the target
Corporal Matt Hughes, a crack shot with the Royal Marines, was ordered to take out an Iraqi who was holding back an important advance during…
Teddy Roosevelt & The Charge of the Rough Riders at the Battle of San Juan Heights
Roosevelt’s Rough Riders had been taking fire all morning. They were pinned down, lying flat in the negligible cover of the reeds, rushes and tall…
Received The Medal of Honor for Defending The USS Liberty Against an Attack From Israel
The United States and Israel have not always seen eye to eye, but they have been nothing less than strong allies since the Israeli State…
Auschwitz Concentration Camp: 71 Years Since Liberation
Auschwitz concentration camp, the most notorious of the Nazi death camps, was liberated 71 years ago, on 27 January 1945. For five years it had…
Chickens of the Gulf War – Operation Kuwaiti Field Chicken
A century and a half ago, it was common to use birds as detectors of poison and poison gases. Because of their delicate lungs and…
Drunkenness, Disorder and the Plague: The Cadiz Fiasco of 1625
The English navy has a reputation as a force to be reckoned with from the 16th century onwards. But in the early 17th century it…
1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs: Flemish Butchers and Weavers Defeat French Professional Knights
Heavy cavalry ruled the battlefield in the middle ages, starting way back around the battle of Adrianople. The common system of hierarchal feudal rule was…