WW2 Submarine Floats In Flood
The United States has had huge problems with the fallout from an unusually wet spring; farmers’ fields are soggy and crops can’t be harvested, and…
D-Day Vet Reunites With Lost French Love After 75 Years
D-Day story “The course of true love never did run smooth.” William Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” June 6th 2019 was a hugely important day…
Eisenhower, When I Met The Man Behind D-Day, No One Believed Me
In April 1944, twenty-three-year-old private Walter J. Thorpe of Abilene, Kansas set out on an unlikely mission. He aspired to meet Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.…
C-47 The Plane & The Invention That Helped D-Day Happen
The largest fleet of flying Douglas DC-3/ C-47/ Dakotas ever seen since the 1950s is now steadily building up in Duxford, Cambridge, UK. In the…
Bartini-Beriev VVA-14: The Vertical Take-Off Amphibious Aircraft
Bartini-Beriev was part of the Cold War arms race, the opposing states supported the implementation of incredible and ambitious design ideas. Combating threats from the…
Sorry to Inform You, But Not All C-47s Can Fly to Normandy
The Dakota Hunter tell us why…. We tried hard but the budget is too tight for the work still to be done, ha. Over the…
Saving Private Ryan: Surprising Facts About Spielberg’s Epic
Saving Private Ryan is considered by some to be one of the top 10 war films of all time. Steven Spielberg’s 1998 movie, starring Tom…
War Garbage: Philippines Threaten War with Canada over Trash
Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines, has threatened a war against Canada. At the core of the diplomatic tension is trash. Over 100 shipping…
Grave Hunter Brings 70 Finnish War Dead Home From Russia For Burial
The egregious death toll of soldiers who lost their lives during the Second World War is staggering; millions of men in the Allied Forces died…
The Time 30,000 People Perished in a War Because of an Ear!
Despite the so-called Peace of Utrecht at the end of the War of the Spanish Succession, Britain and Spain frequently found themselves in conflict between…
150,000 Men, 900 Ships: Excavation Reveals Size of Antony & Cleopatra’s Fleet
In the years that followed, Antony was busy – he defeated the assassins who had despatched Caesar and later struck up a romance with the…
As Australian As Mascots Get: Kangaroos In WWI & WWII
Other uniquely Australian animals and birds were smuggled by troops to the Egyptian and other First World War fronts, such as wallabies, kookaburras, koalas, and…