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Unknown Soldiers: Quest To Identify The Remains Of WW1 Tommies

In the meantime, his gravestone still waits for a name. Even today, more than a century after the end of the First World War, there…

Kriegsmarine’s Environmental Time Bomb Off The Coast of Norway

Ian Harvey

Fishing has been banned in the area, and pregnant and breastfeeding women and young children have been advised to not eat fish caught near the…

Shoreham Air Crash: Pilot declared “Not Guilty” Over Deaths of 11 Victims

When the plane crashed and broke apart, Hill was flung into a ditch, suffering head injuries and fractures to his ribs and spine. Andy Hill,…

The Scottish Army That Dressed as Cows and Stormed an English Castle

Ian Harvey

The insults stopped when the governor allegedly received an arrow in one cheek which passed through his mouth and out through the other cheek. There…

The Lost Ark : Spring Clean Leads To Rare Nazi Find

Ian Harvey

She had, in fact, found a rare, crucial piece of wartime communications equipment. Cleaning out the house just in time for spring and putting unused…

Hard Luck Castle: Ideal for Doomsday Preppers

Ian Harvey

Johnson has decided that this phase of his life is now over, and he intends to buy a boat and move onto new adventures. If…

The Remains of Hundreds of Jews Found in Nazi-Era Mass Grave in Belarus

Ian Harvey

The town was turned over to the Soviets who were allies with the Nazis at the time Soldiers in Belarus are excavating a mass grave…

Rambo: Last Blood to Hit Cinemas in Early Fall 2019

Ian Harvey

He is hired by missionaries to take them up-river, but somewhere along the way it all goes horribly wrong. Lionsgate has confirmed that the final…

Through German Eyes-The Aftermath of the Dunkirk Evacuations

Staff cars and troop carriers are strewn along mile after mile of sand dunes. The flotilla of little boats that helped the British Expeditionary Forces…

Canada’s Finest-Mapping the Battle of Normandy

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The large amount of data we have collected from the situation maps and War Diaries will be viewable as unit positions on top of the…

Cake Conflict – Too Fat To Serve?

Ian Harvey

The obesity epidemic  is now impinging upon the Armed Forces. We tend to think of Armed Forces personnel as chiselled, hard-bodied hunks; that’s how they…

‘Hanoi Hilton’ Survivor Dies at 81 He Endured 6.5 Years as a PoW

Ian Harvey

An American veteran who lasted more than six years in a hellish Vietnamese prisoner of war (POW) camp, Murphy Neal Jones, Sr., passed away in…