The American WWII Veteran Who Befriended The Toddler Next Door – The Pair Became An Online Sensation
Erling Kindem, a World War II veteran from Farmington, Minnesota, became an internet sensation when he developed a friendship with the toddler that lived next door.…
Female WW2 Spy Who Kept Her Wartime Work Secret For Fifty Years Is Honored At Last
Wives do not always tell their husbands everything. In the case of Becky White she had a good reason not to. She had been a…
WW2 Australian Warship Which Sank In Darwin Harbor Looks Destined To Remain There For Good
The rescue of a part of Australia’s military past from the bottom of Darwin Harbour may not be realized. A Second World War boat, HDML…
Soldier Shot For Desertion In World War One Is Remembered Ten Years After His Pardon
One hundred years after his execution for desertion a soldier from England has been remembered. Alfred Jefferies, a member of the Somerset Light Infantry, was…
“Deborah and the War of the Tanks 1917” – Review by Mark Barnes
When it comes to tanks this centenary year has been filled with highlights. Back in February, I got to see the original plans of the…
The Little Known Battles of Attu And Kiska: Retaking The Only US Soil Lost During WWII
In the cold, desolate Arctic near Alaska in 1942, Japanese troops quietly invaded and took over two of the Aleutian Islands, considered to be North…
The Cost Of War: Drone Footage of Margraten American Cemetery
A Large number American soldiers who were killed in Europe during World War II were buried there, thousands of kilometers from home. The Netherlands American Cemetery…
8 Reasons For The French Military Disaster At Dien Bien Phu
Arrogance. Ignorance. Poor planning. These were the weapons with which French commanders fought the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, and with which they ensured their…
This True Leader Stormed Multiple Japanese Machine Guns In Burma Until Mortally Wounded
Oxford scholar and founder of a literary magazine are just a couple of honors to which a young man might aspire and find himself on…
Amazing – WWII Veteran Uses Virtual Reality To Revisit Town He Helped Liberate
Frank Mouqué is a 91-year-old British World War II veteran who fought in the Battle of Normandy where he helped liberate Armentières, France, 72 years…
War Museum In Belarus Honors Tanks And Stalin – But Doesn’t Tell The Full Story
At the Belarus’s Stalin Line museum outside Minsk, visitors can see reenactments of Second World War battles, fire weapons from the Soviet era next to…
The Photographer Who Documented The Devastation In Hiroshima And Nagasaki
Milton Dienes could not have realized that his pictures would one day head to the archives at the Library of Congress. He walked the streets…