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World War 2 Operation Bagration In colour

Operation Bagration

  In June of 1944, the Red Army carried out the Belorussian offensive that took place slightly over two weeks after the D-Day landings in…

History of British Tanks by World of Tanks

Wargaming

British development The Landships Committee commissioned Lieutenant Walter Gordon Wilson of the Royal Naval Air Service and William Tritton of William Foster & Co. Ltd.…

Top 10 Battles of the Vietnam War

The Vietnam War lasted from 1 November 1955 to 30 April 1975, officially between North Vietnam (North Vietnam) and South Vietnam (South Vietnam). In reality, it…

10 Weirdest Facts From WWI

In these centennial years of the First World war, lets look back at some of the more unknown facts about WW1. Were the Generals leading the…

WW2: Jäger Greifen An! – German Luftwaffe captured Gun Camera Footage

In the air war over Europe, by 1944, the Allies had overwhelming advantages in numbers. The Luftwaffe had to come out and attack the bomber formations…

Kim Philby: Known As One Of The Most Famous Traitors Of The Cold War

Andrew Knighton

Harold “Kim” Philby, British journalist and intelligence agent, is one of the most famous traitors of the Cold War. Part of the infamous Cambridge spy…

The German Paris Gun – Super Gun Of WWI

The Paris Gun was a type of German long-range siege gun, several of which were used to bombard Paris during World War I. They were…

WW II B-17 Survival Story – Virtually cut in half by a mid air collision with a German Fighter it got the crew home!

On February 1, 1943, there was a collision in mid-air between a B-17 bomber and a German fighter plane over the Tunis dock area in…

The Heavy Tank T26E3 Pershing – 1945

As the Second World War was coming to its end, the technologies on the battlefields of Europe were becoming more and more complex. The tank…

Why The US Dumped Helicopters Overboard During the Vietnam War

Jack Beckett

Operation Frequent Wind, the largest helicopter evacuation on record, begins removing the last Americans from Saigon. The North Vietnamese had launched their final offensive in…

World War II As You’ve Never Seen it Before: In ORIGINAL Color!

When we think of World War 2 we think of black and white images and movies, however some of the cameramen were equipped with color…

The Greatest German General No One Has Heard Of – Lieutenant General Of Armored Troops Herman Balck

Herman Balck might be one of the most effective German Generals, whose actions are largely forgotten today. He came from a military family, his father,…