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Crazy! Video – Pilot Lands Damaged A-6 on Carrier with Navigator Partially Ejected

David Baker

It’s hard to imagine the guts, skill, and talent it takes to smoothly take off or land an aircraft. But it takes a particular kind…

26 Sad Images of WWII Airplane Graveyards & Storage Sites

Joris Nieuwint

These are very sad images of now priceless, warbirds that were left to rot outside to be recycled later. During and after WWII, crash landed and…

War Crime? Utah Camp Guard Opened Fire on German POWs After War was Over

Jeremy Lyons

Prisoners of war come part and parcel with the human institution of warfare.  If an enemy combatant surrenders, he (or she) is to be accorded…

Panzer Hunters – Soviet Anti-tank Guns of WWII with Photos

Soviet anti-tank guns played a crucial role in confronting German equipment on the Eastern Front of the Second World War, called the Great Patriotic War…

Controversial & Horrifying: 22 Images of Flamethrowers, the Weapon that Should be Banned?

The first use of a flamethrower was recorded by the Greeks in the first century AD. Clearly, the fear of fire is inherent in both…

A Marine Corps Legacy that Began at the Battle of Puerto Plata

Joseph Fernandez

The small American sloop, bedraggled and battered by wind, weather, and sun, made its way slowly towards the harbor as the sun rose above the…

Today in Military History – September 25th

Today in Military History – September 25th 1066: Battle of Stamford Bridge This battle was fought between the English army of King Harold Goodwinson and…

Threats or Seduction Promises – How Hitler Corrupted Germany’s Youth

Ian Harvey

The Nazis treated most people Jews, Poles, Russians, the French, almost everyone who was not an Ayrian (white Germans) abominably.  But when the Party wanted someone…

Today in Military History – September 24th

1925: France renegotiates its debt from WWI France tried to renegotiate its war debt of $4,000,000,000, citing that the French government could not pay without…

U-Boat Wreckage Found – Crew Claimed They Were Attacked by Sea Monster

All throughout naval history, there have tales of mysterious monsters and other such oddities reaching out from the watery abyss to claim ships and sailors…

The USS Arizona – 5 Facts You May Not Know and 30 Photos

Most people are familiar with the iconic ship and the amazing memorial to her in Pearl Harbor. Here are some things you may not know…

Great Fighters of WWII – Yak-3 and Yak-9 in Photos

The middle of World War II, called the Great Patriotic War in the USSR, was for the Soviet engineer Alexander Yakovlev one of his most…