“Earn My Rank” – Former Women’s Army Corps Member Achieves Rank of Lieutenant Colonel
Growing up the daughter of a rural preacher and an electric lineman, and in a combined family of seven children, Carol Jean Dameron Bailey realized…
Gary Sinise Has a Special Message for this Lucky Veteran… His Mortgage is Getting Paid Off
US Navy veteran Bill Day thought home ownership was a far off dream… till he got a special video call from actor Gary Sinise. Sinise,…
New Book Alleges Poisonous Pacific Legacy of the American Military
Japan-based journalist Jon Mitchell has made it his life’s work to investigate and record the many ways in which he sees the Pacific Ocean has…
Falklands Aircraft Carrier Hermes now the INS Viraat for the Scrapheap
The Centaur-class aircraft carrier, laid down in 1944, but not commissioned until 1959, had a distinguished 25 years of service with the British Royal Navy,…
Hundred-Year-Old Carrier Pigeon Message Discovered in French Field
A couple walking in a field in France last September discovered a tiny aluminum capsule in a field. Upon opening it, they discovered a message…
1943 M4A1 Grizzly Sherman for Sale
This M4A1 Grizzly is an adaptation of the Sherman medium tank that was built in Canada in late 1943. It is a cast-hull variant of…
Four Excellent Manuals from Haynes – Review by Mark Barnes
I once collected a multi-volume aviation history part work we do not see the like of today thanks to the glories of the worldwide web…
Army Major Conned Nations into Sending Him Tanks & Weapons
A British army major is accused of convincing Germany, Belgium and Sweden to send dozens of tanks and weapons which he then sold himself for…
Dangerous Drops and Secret Radars: The Story of Operation Biting
Parachutes and radar are long-established elements of war. But they both came into their own with Operation Biting. This British raid from the skies took…
Historic D-Day Railway Station Visited by Churchill, de Gaulle & Eden up for Sale
In the leafy lanes of Hampshire’s Meon Valley lie the villages of Soberton and Droxford. Along Station Road there used to be a railway station…
B-52 Sends Distress Signal Over Britain
A US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bomber sent an emergency radio message while flying over Gloucestershire in the UK on September 25, 2020. The bomber…
RNLI Rescues a Catalina Flying-Boat in Loch Ness
The crews attached to the RNLI Station at Loch Ness are no strangers to call-outs for strange objects, but none were as odd as the…