Navajo Nation Mourns the Loss of Longest-Living Arizona Veteran Dies Aged 105
Saturday 25th January 2020 marked the passing of World War II veteran Sophie Yazzie. Sophie, a member of the Navajo Nation, was 105 when she…
More Terracotta Warriors Found at Ancient Chinese Burial Site
Chinese farmers were digging a well in 1974 when they discovered fragments of a life-sized statue of a terracotta warrior. The area was then discovered…
Rare Photographs Emerge of the One & Only Spitfire-Messerschmidt Hybrid
During the Battle of Britain legend has it that when Head of the Nazi Luftwaffe, Hermann Goering asked Major Adolf Galland what was required to…
US Man Exposed as Nazi Commander Dies at Age 100
Michael Karkoc passed away on December 14th at the age of 100. The retired carpenter was publicly outed by the Associated Press as a former…
Omaha Beach Bronze Bust Planned for Native American D-Day Medic
There is a memorial that looks over Omaha Beach in France, it honors the Native Americans who took part in the Normandy invasions that helped…
USS Orleck: The WW2 Ship Has to Move But Who Wants Her
USS Orleck: A long-held dream of the Jacksonville Historic Naval Ship Association could soon come true. For some time, they have been collecting funds and…
US Marine Corps Veteran, 104, Seeks Valentine’s Cards for Collection
Bill White, 104, is a US Marine Corps veteran who served for 30 years, including during World War II. He requested people send him Valentine’s…
Found: USS Grayback, Final Resting Place of 80 Entombed Sailors
Thanks to a Japanese amateur researcher, the wreck of the USS Grayback has been located off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, 75 years after the…
Gone Viral: Bugler Stands & Plays Taps in the Rain, Tribute to WWII Nurse
Specialist Melvin Taylor was present at the funeral of 100-year-old WWII nurse veteran Annie Ruth McVadon recently and was called upon to play the iconic…
Tension Between Poland & Russia Mars Holocaust 75th Anniversary
The 27th January 2020 marked the 75th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet Army. Auschwitz was the largest, as well as the…
Son of War Hero Montgomery & Friend of Manfred Rommel, Dead at 91
David Montgomery inherited his title from his father, the famous Field Marshal, who tackled Erwin ‘Desert Fox’ Rommel in the deserts of North Africa in…
Why wasn’t Auschwitz bombed by the Allies
On a cold April morning in 1944, two Jewish men somehow found themselves on the right side of the Auschwitz barbed wire. Rudolf Vrba and…