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Ordinary Membership Card: 102-Year-Old Veteran Honored in Canada

Ian Harvey

At 102 years old, Royal Canadian Air Force veteran Alward M. Gammell has a lot to reflect on. Among the many testaments to his loyalty…

Ian Fortune Kept Flying After Being Shot In the Head By Enemy Machine Gun Fire

British Royal Marines running from a Boeing CH-47 Chinook

Whether it be in peacetime or war, being shot is never pleasant. Taking a bullet once in the body is often enough to maim or…

Greece Seeking Reparations From WWII: Germany Says No!

Ian Harvey

Around 1,000 Greek villages were destroyed, thousands of Greeks died of starvation,and tens of thousands were killed by German forces. On April 17th, the Greek…

EPIC Movie Incoming! – “Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan” Trailer Inside!

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“Danger Close” is an important and timely film because the facts of this battle are so remarkable, and ANZAC participation in the Vietnam War is…

The MOH Recipient Who Enlisted To Avenge His Brother

He soon saw action, and was wounded twice in the space of a few months – first in the foot, in August, and then a…

Hurricane Could be Rebuilt After 80 years in the Ground

Ian Harvey

The plane’s impact with the ground was so hard, and so abrupt, that the fuel in the tanks didn’t ignite, according to Roger Pickett, a…

New Documentary Shows US Marines in Action in Afghanistan

Ian Harvey

His intention was for the average person at home to get a feel for war – its uncertainty, the paradoxical nature of what it is…

Johnny Depp to Play War Photogrpaher W.Eugene Smith in Hollywood Movie

Ian Harvey

Katherine Jenkins will be taking on her first major movie role starring alongside Johnny Depp and Bill Nighy. The film is titled Minamata with Depp…

Wounded, He Eliminated 5 NVA Soldiers With Just his Ka-Bar Then Carried his Comrade to Safety

Ian Harvey

In the midst of the Vietnam war, Marine Lance Corporal James H. Stogner says that the conditions made it impossible to paint a pretty picture;…

75 years of HMS Cavalier: The Fastest Ship in the Fleet

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2019 marks a very special anniversary for a very special ship at The Historic Dockyard in Chatham, Kent.  HMS Cavalier, the national Destroyer Memorial, based…

Royal Navy Slang That’s Found Its Way Into Everyday Life

British Royal Navy sailors firing a cannon

In Britain, it’s said you’re never more than 70 miles from the sea. Given this, the country’s most important means of defense has, historically, been…

Tiger 1 & Fury Reunited Again at Tiger Day April 27th – Don’t Miss It

Tiger 131, one of the tank stars of Brad Pitt’s Second World War blockbuster ‘Fury’, will make one of its two yearly outings at The…