Money & Guns in WWII, the Cost of SMGs and Sidearms, Thompsons Were $10,500 in Today’s Money
War is an expensive business and requires a massive manufacturing and logistical support system to prosecute successfully. When the United States was pulled into World…
Missing In Action in France in 1944 US Soldier Jack Cummings is Returned to the USA in 2018
For more than seventy years the final resting place of 22-year-old John B. “Jack” Cummings was unknown. All the military had of him after the…
Discovered in Germany Jeep Hoods Used to Repair a Ceiling after WW2
After the end of World War II a lot of dust had to settle before serious rebuilding could take place. There were material and food…
Underground Hideout for a Jewish Tailor Discovered on a farm in Poland
There are innumerable tales of sadness and horror surrounding World War II, particularly regarding the fate of the Jews, whom Adolf Hitler treated unmercifully and…
SAS Veterans Win a Five-Year Fight to Save Their Clubhouse After Outrageous Rent Demands
The Special Air Service (SAS) has seen off the UK’s National Rifle Association (NRA) in a standoff over their veterans’ clubhouse. The Artists Rifles Clubhouse…
Return 107-Year-Old Painting, Stolen By the Nazis During WW2
One of the casualties of World War II that gets less attention than the human plight it created is the theft of many important works…
Navy Launches Another $4.24 Billion Destroyer
The U.S. Navy announced the recent launch of the final Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyer from General Dynamics Bath Iron Works in Maine. It is the…
Royal Fail At the Royal Mail: “Best of British” Stamp Collection Confusing D-Day Beaches With Indonesia
In a modern world of instant, online messages and swift, online criticism, it didn’t take long for folks to notice the giant gaffe made by…
US Marine’s Remains Identified 77 Years After He Was Killed at Pearl Harbor
US Marine Jack Cremean was killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He was providing security on the USS Oklahoma when…
USA’s Oldest WWII Veteran Richard Overton Dies at 112
On May 3rd, 2016, a week before his 110th birthday, Richard Overton became the USA’s oldest living WWII veteran. The 112-year-old African-American veteran was hospitalized…
WW2 Continues: Bombs & Mines Threaten Safety of People in Estonia
Even when wars end and gunfire is silenced, their reverberations carry on for years, sometimes for decades. Conflicts like World War II leave scars that…
A New York Man Was Arrested for Using a Civil War-Era Cannon in a Dispute With His Neighbor – Like One Does
In this heavily populated world, where much of society lives cheek by jowl in large cities, it’s not uncommon to find a neighbor irritating. Indeed,…