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From Wartime Base To Modern Airport: England’s Stansted Airport Has Distinguished History

Ian Harvey

The United Kingdom is filled with ancient buildings that are a marvel of architecture and attract millions of tourists each year, anxious to see the…

WWII Veteran Richard Overton Memorialized on Google Street View

Ian Harvey

Richard Overton liked nothing more in life than to sit out on the porch of the house he built when he returned from action in…

Six Cases in Which Servicemen Did Not Surrender When a War Ended

Ruslan Budnik

The history of warfare is full of examples of soldiers who refused to capitulate and continued to offer armed resistance after their side surrendered. Most…

The Unsolved Mystery of Nanjing Battalion, Did 3,000 Chinese Troops Really Disappear in 1939?

The Second Sino-Japanese war was brutal, with Japan ravaging China. Many lives were lost on both sides, but the strangest loss was that of the…

Werner Goering, The US Bomber Pilot Whose Name Almost Got Him Assassinated By The FBI

Jay Hemmings

A famous quote from William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice states that “the sins of the father are to be laid upon the children.” In…

Mystery of HMAS Sydney, Sunk in WW2 & the Strange Body That Washed Up On Christmas Island

Jay Hemmings

Of the many naval encounters between the Allies and the Axis forces in World War II, the sea battle between the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran…

The British Civilian Gas Mask: Full of Chemicals As Dangerous As The Gas it Was Protecting You From

Jay Hemmings

Warfare, throughout the ages, has prompted and necessitated the rapid expansion of industry, technology, and innovation in various kingdoms and nations. Sometimes the hastily-developed technology…

The Brave Women of the Battle of Britain

The Battle of Britain was the first major all-aircraft campaign of World War II. It was marked with several episodes of intense aerial combats. Swarms…

Top Bombers & Pilots of WW2

Morgan Deane

The intense fighting of World War II produced many missions. Many pilots received a break after 25 missions, but others pilots flew more. This sometimes…

9 American Cold War Tanks

Andrew Knighton

The Second World War solidified the position of tanks as a vital tool in the modern military arsenal. And so, over the course the Cold…

Hitler’s House in The Center of the Scandal in Austria

Ruslan Budnik

On April 20, 1889 in the town of Braunau am Inn in Austria-Hungary, a woman gave birth to a boy who would grow up to…

List of Danish Nazis Made Available Online

In the years following the fall of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989, citizens of those countries were able to go through many of the…