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An Air Force Veteran Describes His Service Spanning Vietnam And The Cold War

War History online proudly presents this Guest Piece from Jeremy P. Ämick, who is a military historian and writes on behalf of the Silver Star…

Powerful Footage Of Arnhem Allied Cemetery – Operation Market Garden

Following the Allies’ successful landings at Normandy in the north of France, the tide of the war seemed to be turning. America had joined the…

Five Mysterious Treasures From WW2 Which Are Still Missing (Watch)

Hundreds of tons of gold, 13,000 pounds of precious amber, more than hundreds of thousands of diamonds, even the fossilized remains of Peking Man and…

Léo Major, The One-Eyed Liberator of Zwolle – A One-Man Powerhouse In World War Two

Some men are driven by a need to prove themselves to their fathers. One took it to an extreme, however, by single-handedly liberating an entire…

WWI Armored Cars In Pictures – The Heavy Cavalry Of The Industrial Age

As the 20th century saw the mass production of automobiles, military establishments around the world considered its use as crucial in future conflicts. The motorization…

Low Flying B-17 From ‘The War Lover’ Movie – This Is Some Crazy Flying (Watch)

This video shows several low passes by a B-17 at RAF Bovingdon in England; it’s a clip from the movie “The War Lover.” The War…

Incredible – He Saved 669 Children During The Holocaust; He Doesn’t Know They’re Sitting Next To Him

Hundreds of people who were rescued as children by a man described as “Britain’s Oskar Schindler” gathered together to attend a special service in honor…

Shave Like a Man – Funny Commercial Uses WW2 To Poke Fun At Modern Social Media Users

In 2013, a shaving brand that was born in 1919 joined the parade of products trying to define what it means to be a real man…

The Crew Of This WW1 Sub Claimed They Were Attacked By A Sea Monster – Now The Wreck Has Been Found

While laying an undersea power line, Scottish engineers discovered a World War I German submarine on the sea floor. Experts believe that the wreck is…

The Solution To A Small, Personal World War Two Mystery – Medals For Navy Service Returned To The Rightful Owner

The mystery surrounding an American sailor’s WW2 medals has been solved. The medals were left in an old dresser, which was then donated to charity. Nobody…

Awesome 81-Year-Old Pilot Flies WW2 Spitfire Back To His Old School, Does Victory Roll

Undoubtedly, there are many pilots, commercial and private, who envy 81-year-old Brian Lockwood. He got to fly a Spitfire, that legendary fighter of Battle of…

A Hundred Years On From The Horror Of Gallipoli, A Flag From The Battlefield Returns Home

A Red Cross flag has taken over 100 years and thousands of kilometers to return home to Australia from Gallipoli, Turkey where it flew over…