Spanish Civil War Victim’s Daughter Waits Almost a Lifetime for Justice
Ascension Mendieta waited well over seven decades to get the only thing she ever really wanted. She boarded a plane to head to Spain to…
Destination Pacific – Review by Mark Barnes
Many years ago my ex-wife’s family tried their best to get her father to write his life story down but he refused. He was a…
Fort Wayne’s Veteran spent World War II On a Navy minesweeper
At the outbreak of World War II, radar and sonar were two top secret technologies. To train with these technologies FBI clearance was required and Arthur Spirou…
4 Funny Urban Legends of War
Usually when we think of urban legends we think of dark and mysterious stories that make us want to lock our doors. When we think…
10 Amazing Recent WWII Discoveries
Seven decades after World War Two ended, artifacts from this period are still being discovered around the globe. These range from fighter airplanes in the desert…
C-47 Dakota and C-130 Fly In Formation Over Normandy – D-Day 70th Anniversary
Original Normandy C-47 flies over the beaches and villages it flew over 70 years ago with the help of the 37th Airlift Squadron’s C-130. In…
The Army Goes In – The Suez Crisis of 1956
The Suez Crisis comprised of an invasion by Israel of Egypt in late 1956, Britain and France soon followed in this invasion. The aim of…
WWI Battle of Verdun: The Battle That Was Never ‘Won’
The president of France, Francois Holland, will join German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the re-opening ceremony of the recently renovated museum that stands on the…
British Officer’s WWI Diary Exposes Brutal Jungle Warfare in West Africa
The Great War is mainly associated with trench warfare and battlefields in Europe, though the war raged on other continents as well. The British National Army Museum…
Russian Robotic Tanks Developments Are Beating All Others
There is a growing trend in the world’s military to employ robots instead of human soldiers. The thinking is that they are more reliable…
The Secrets Locked inside a Shipwrecked Trumpet
It doesn’t look like the sort of thing that would have historical secrets locked inside. In fact, it looks more like the kind of thing…
Operation Iceberg, The Largest Amphibious Invasion In The Pacific
Two Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines advance on Wana Ridge on 18 May 1945. Codenamed Operation Iceberg, the invasion of Okinawa was the…