Beyond Brave: The First Ever Recipient Of The Victoria Cross
He sprinted over to the shell, picked it up, and dumped it overboard, where it exploded in the ocean a mere second later. Of all…
A Sticky Situation: Super Glue in Warfare
Super Glue actually was used to seal up battle wounds during the Vietnam War. It well known that Super Glue is, true to its name,…
Purple Haze: Famous Veterans of The 101st Airborne
For all of us fans of the popular Band of Brothers series on HBO, there are a plethora of favorite real-life heroes portrayed in the…
The Origin Of Plastic Surgery: The Battlefields Of WWI
After the Battle of Jutland in May 1916, Gillies had to deal with a huge influx of patients who had suffered horrific facial wounds. War…
The Boer War-Canada’s First Foreign Military Engagement
The majority of French Canadians sympathized with the Boers. Canada’s involvement in the Boer War – also known as the South African war – was…
The Silver Legion: The Nazi Sympathisers of America
He also alleged that the experience gave him the ability to levitate and see through walls. Every American schoolchild knows that Americans fought the Nazis…
Movie Mistakes – A Bridge Too Far
Early in the movie, in the scene when the generals are having a meeting, they have a map of Europe and Middle East from the…
Strange But True: When US & German Forces Defeated the Waffen SS
The inmates broke into the weapons room but could not leave the castle. The woods surrounding them were full of Waffen SS and Gestapo. Wars…
LST 510: Landed Tanks on D-Day is Now a Converted Car Ferry
Among their crews it was joked that LST stood for “Large Slow Target.” The D-Day operation took place almost eighty years ago. Practically every single…
Blood Transfusion Tripled Survival Rates: How WW1 Had an Impact on Blood Donation
More than a hundred years ago, Europe and America were convinced that serious and large-scale military conflicts were impossible. On January 1, 1901, in the…
Poles Apart -Grant & Lee -The American Civil War Generals
“Well, Mary, the question is settled,” said Robert E. Lee to his wife when his precious State of Virginia seceded from the Union and joined…
Mosquito Bite: Yours For a Cool $7 MILLION!
With a range of over 3,000 km (1,900 miles), a de Havilland Mosquito could fly from London to Warsaw and back. Are you tired of…