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Blue Angels Fat Albert Crazy Gut-Wrenching Take Off (Watch)

Fat Albert is the name given to a twenty-four-year-old C-130 Hercules aircraft. The Hercules is a troop transporter, and Fat Albert performs an important role…

Jacklyn H. Lucas – Mr Immortal – Awarded the MoH age 17 – Used His Body To Shield His Squad From Two Grenades

Jeff Edwards

For many young people, the outbreak of the greatest War this planet had ever seen would come just a little too early for them to…

When The French Army Invaded Germany in 1939 To Support Poland, All Did Not Go As Planned

Germany was not the first country to go on the offensive on the western front of World War Two. That first attack came from France,…

FUSAG: The Ghost Army – Patton’s D-Day Force That Was Only A Threat In The Enemy’s Imagination

An army can help win a war without even existing. Strange as that may seem, this is exactly what happened in the case of the First United…

Decades After His Death, A Young Airman Who Gave His Life In The Korean War Returns Home In Honor

Army Corporal Louis A. Damewood, of Carroll County, Maryland, was 21 when he was taken prisoner during the Korean War and subsequently died in a…

He Gave His Life At Pearl Harbor, Now He Will Be Buried With Full Military Honors

Navy Fireman 1st Class William H. Kennedy, of Titonka, Iowa, was 24 when he was killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Kennedy served…

Smoky, A Remarkable Abandoned Dog Who Became A World War Two Hero

William “Bill” Wynne was raised in Cleveland, Ohio, during the Great Depression. His father had left him and his mother couldn’t afford to raise him,…

The World War Two Mystery In New Caledonia That Is Still Unsolved

75 years ago, the French rounded up Japanese migrant workers and detained them in Australia. They refused to let them come back after World War…

Eight Brothers From The Same Medford Family Served In World War Two

Known as the “Fighting Santoros,” a Medford family went above and beyond to answer the call of their country in World War II. Eight Santoro brothers…

From The Tank Museum: Capturing The Jagdtiger

The Tank Museum’s Jagdtiger has chassis no. 305004. It was one of eleven (plus an unarmoured prototype) which were fitted with the Porsche suspension system. …

How A Crossword Puzzle Nearly Spelled The End For D-Day

To end WWII in Europe, the Allies planned a massive assault on Normandy, France, in 1944. Over 5,000 ships, 1,200 planes, and almost 160,000 men…

The Man Who Saved the World From Nuclear Destruction

Damian Lucjan

The Man Who Saved the World from Nuclear Destruction Remember, remember the 26th of September, when the unknown man becomes a defender. That could be…