Missing In Action in France in 1944 US Soldier Jack Cummings is Returned to the USA in 2018
For more than seventy years the final resting place of 22-year-old John B. “Jack” Cummings was unknown. All the military had of him after the…
Discovered in Germany Jeep Hoods Used to Repair a Ceiling after WW2
After the end of World War II a lot of dust had to settle before serious rebuilding could take place. There were material and food…
Underground Hideout for a Jewish Tailor Discovered on a farm in Poland
There are innumerable tales of sadness and horror surrounding World War II, particularly regarding the fate of the Jews, whom Adolf Hitler treated unmercifully and…
SAS Veterans Win a Five-Year Fight to Save Their Clubhouse After Outrageous Rent Demands
The Special Air Service (SAS) has seen off the UK’s National Rifle Association (NRA) in a standoff over their veterans’ clubhouse. The Artists Rifles Clubhouse…
Teenage Hero of the Battle of Jutland & Recipient of the Victoria Cross
In the First World War, the largest naval encounter was the Battle of Jutland, in which the mighty dreadnought warships of the British Grand Fleet…
PPSh-41 – The Most Mass-Produced Submachine Gun of WWII
The Soviet PPSh-41 submachine gun was one of the most common weapons of the Second World War. The famous modification of the PPSh with a…
Sails on Viking Longships – Were They Really Red & White?
It’s a common enough scene from movies and TV shows: a seaside village on the English coast, sometime in the Dark Ages. Peasants, monks and…
Coffee & War The Origins of the Americano
The Origins of the Americano Have you ever wondered why every Italian style coffee house now sells something they call an Americano? For most people,…
Return 107-Year-Old Painting, Stolen By the Nazis During WW2
One of the casualties of World War II that gets less attention than the human plight it created is the theft of many important works…
Navy Launches Another $4.24 Billion Destroyer
The U.S. Navy announced the recent launch of the final Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyer from General Dynamics Bath Iron Works in Maine. It is the…
Royal Fail At the Royal Mail: “Best of British” Stamp Collection Confusing D-Day Beaches With Indonesia
In a modern world of instant, online messages and swift, online criticism, it didn’t take long for folks to notice the giant gaffe made by…
US Marine’s Remains Identified 77 Years After He Was Killed at Pearl Harbor
US Marine Jack Cremean was killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He was providing security on the USS Oklahoma when…