Through German Eyes-The Aftermath of the Dunkirk Evacuations
Staff cars and troop carriers are strewn along mile after mile of sand dunes. The flotilla of little boats that helped the British Expeditionary Forces…
When The Earth Had a Ring About it- Project West Ford
The US military believed that the Soviet Union could attack an undersea cable. The American space program landed people on the moon and has contributed…
Bombs,Bullets and Beer-The British Brew Barge of WWII
What better way to keep a soldier at his best than to keep him happy? In 1933, the 21st Amendment saw America out of Prohibition…
Potato Masher Turned to Chips – WW1 Grenade Found in Hong Kong
Employees of a potato chip factory in Hong Kong discovered a German hand grenade. More than a hundred years have passed since the First World…
Cake Conflict – Too Fat To Serve?
The obesity epidemic is now impinging upon the Armed Forces. We tend to think of Armed Forces personnel as chiselled, hard-bodied hunks; that’s how they…
Tough Choice But The 82nd Airborne Inducted 20 Members Into Its Hall of Fame
We all know of the storied exploits of the United States’ 82nd Airborne Division. The elite group of soldiers with the motto – Death From…
‘Hanoi Hilton’ Survivor Dies at 81 He Endured 6.5 Years as a PoW
An American veteran who lasted more than six years in a hellish Vietnamese prisoner of war (POW) camp, Murphy Neal Jones, Sr., passed away in…
Whoops – When The USA Dropped a Nuclear Bomb onto a Farm in North Carolina
In January 1961, President John F. Kennedy was inaugurated and the Cold War was in full force. US Air Force bombers and fighter planes were…
The Heavyweight Monster Tanks of WW2
During World War I, tank warfare was still very much in its infancy. The priority at the time was about getting this new technology to work…
“Turtle” of 1776 – The First ‘Submarine’ Ever Used In War
The first large-scale example of submarine warfare took place in the First World War, with German U-boats sinking a number of Allied ships, and by…
The Battle of Towton: The Bloodiest Battle Ever Fought On English Soil
The Wars of the Roses in the fifteenth century featured a number of brutal and bloody battles between the Royal Houses of Lancaster and York.…
The Deadliest Civil War In History & Second Deadliest War Ever Fought
For countless centuries, China has suffered protracted periods of invasion and counter-invasion, insurrection, conquest, and war. Many of the deadliest of these wars occurred in…