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Battlefield 1 Lets You Fly Over the Chaos of WWI Trench Warfare – Playing as a Carrier Pigeon (Video)

Check out the Pigeon Scene and 20 full minutes of campaign action from Battlefield 1 below. More snippets of Battlefield 1’s campaign are coming out…

Spine-Tingling High Definition A-10 Warthog Video With Awesome Sound – Flying, Taxiing and Firing the Cannon

In the early 1970s, the A-10 Thunderbolt II was developed. This official name is derived from the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt that was used in World…

50 Luftwaffe FW-190 Fighters Found Buried In Turkey, Amateur Historian Claims

In 1943, Adolf Hitler donated 71 Focke-Wulf FW-190 fighter planes to the Turkish air force in an attempt to encourage Turkey to join the Axis…

Tiny Australian Town Remembers The 13 Men Who Never Returned From The First World War

The small town of Kojonup saw its population swell from 25 to 300 recently, drawing local residents and visitors from other states who attended to…

Lawsuit Against New York Museum Demands Return Of Picasso Masterpiece Lost In WW2

Pablo Picasso’s “The Actor,” a masterpiece from the artist’s Rose Period is part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection. Recently, the great-grandniece of Paul…

Babi Yar: Ukraine’s Dark Historical Anniversary of a Dreadful WW2 Massacre

Vasily Mikhailovsky remembers the event with clarity even though he was four years old. In the latter part of late September 1941, notices appeared around German-occupied…

Comic Book Master Frank Miller Wants Superman to Face WWII and His Jewish Roots

Frank Miller is best known for his Batman comics. But it’s Superman that is the first superhero he fell in love with, and he has…

Pearl Harbour – A Dark Day In American History Remembered At Massachusetts WW2 Museum

“Why We Still Remember” is the name of a new display put on at the Museum of World War II in Natick, Massachusetts. The exhibition…

The Warship That Fired The First Shots Of WWI

Stuck into a muddy river bank, somewhere in Serbia, lies an old, derelict gravel barge. Rusted, useless, and over 100 years old it has limited…

The Belfast Blitz That Destroyed 55,000 Homes In World War Two

Ian Harvey

New research carried out has shown the extent of the ill-preparedness of Belfast in Northern Ireland, during the Second World War. The city was left…

The “Glorious Glosters” Greatest Battle – When 650 Glosters Were Up Against 10,000 Chinese Soldiers

Ian Harvey
Glorious Glosters

Unique in all the British Army, the “Glorious Glosters” wear badges on the front and the rear of their berets.  This right was earned in…

Firing German Second World War Weaponry – The MG42 Machine Gun

MG42 Machine Gun

This video looks at the MG-42, a World War II German machine gun. It is being fired as part of a demonstration at Dellwood Park, Lockwood,…