House Passes Bill to allow Female WWII Pilots (WASPS) to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery
On Tuesday, the House passed a bill to allow female WWII pilots to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Rep. Martha McSally, R-AZ, sponsored the…
The Underground Airbase Slatina You’ve Never Heard Off!
Yugoslavia had about forty objects of strategic importance, including several underground airports which were the largest military secret. Nearly $90 billion have been spent…
Top 11 Biggest Air Battles in War History
Many think of war as either one-on-one combat or trench battle; tending to forget that there were also battles going on above the soldiers’ heads. …
The Berlin Wall, Haunting Pictures Of A Divided City
After the defeat of the Nazis in World War II Germany was divided. The United States, the United Kingdom and their allies occupied western Germany.…
These 3 British SOE Women Helped Win WWII – 2 Survived, 1 Was Cremated Alive
During WWII when the men were out fighting on the front line, women were performing some pretty heroic acts of their own. As March is…
The impact of Holocaust victim Anne Frank’s story stands the test of time
The Diary of Anne Frank has been translated into over 70 languages around the world and is one of the most well known and much-loved…
US Students Continue To Raise Money For Honor Flight So WWII Veterans Can Visit National World War II Monument
A group of World War II veterans, enough to fill an entire airplane, will fly to Washington, D.C. to visit a memorial that has been…
M1 ABRAMS TANK & US INFANTRY WEAPONS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR – Review by Mark Barnes
We have seen books by Michael Green here before and these two from the Images of War range are entirely up to standard. This author’s…
A needle in a haystack – the missing wedding ring of a WWI vet returned.
How often does a search for something small – such as a needle in a haystack – end in success? Not very often one would…
Weird! Air America Huey Helicopter Shot Down Two Vietnamese Biplanes By Firing An AK-47 Out The Door
On 12 January 1968, four North Vietnamese Air Force AN-2 Colt biplanes lifted off from an airfield in northeastern North Vietnam and headed west toward…
Presumed Dead After Heroic Action in 1944, Air Force Academy Janitor Received Medal Of Honor From Reagan in 1984!
Perhaps it was the way he carried himself in an unassuming and humble manner, but day after day hundreds of Air Force Academy cadets would…
Straight Out Of Star Wars! The Soviet VVA-14
In the 1970s the Soviet Union developed a vertical take-off amphibious aircraft called the VVA-14, which could take off from water or land, and fly…