When Parents Named Their Children After Famous WWI Battles
The WW I was a traumatic event in Europe. It left an indelible mark on Europeans and others around the world. The events of the…
Almost Half A Million Axis POWs Were Kept In The United States
The Germans were surprised at how many Russian POWs they had in such a short interval of time. Almost 3,000,000 people suddenly fell into their…
Battleground – Gallipoli – Anzacs The Landing – Review by Dr Wayne Osborne
This is one of Pen & Sword’s hugely popular Battleground series and the fact that this book is in its second print run is testimony…
82nd Airborne War Hero Still Overlooked For Highest Military Honor
One of The United States Army’s most decorated officers of WWII is still yet to be awarded the highest military recognition for his war-time heroism.…
For Sale: 1942 FG-1D Corsair – Bring $2,5 Million!
The Corsair was manufactured by Goodyear in 1942 under license from Vought in Akron, Ohio. It was initially to be used as a carrier-based aircraft,…
WWII: Gunner Fell 22,000 Feet WITHOUT A Parachute And Survived
S/Sgt. Alan E. Magee poses for the camera, halfway into the tight confines of the ball turret of a B-17 Flying Fortress. [Via] Ranked among…
Want A Spitfire But Can’t Afford one? This Man Built A Flying Replica From Scratch!
Images by Bill Word Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Like many of us, Bob DeFord of Prescott, Arizona, dreamed of owning a Spitfire. Like most of us, he couldn’t…
The Day That Stuka Pilot Hans Ulrich Rudel Sank The Soviet Battleship Marat
The 20-year-old Silesian pastor’s son, Ulrich Rudel began his pilot training for the German Luftwaffe in 1936. Rudel volunteered for the new dive-bombing Stuka formations…
Old Boeing Plant has Some Secrets from World War Two
Many know of the company Boeing and its history of building planes. However, no one knew all of the secrets these specific plants held. Seattle,…
US Marine Corps Prepares Cold War Caves In Case of Crisis With Russia
Cold war-era caves in central Norway are being developed by the U.S. military in order to strengthen NATO’s defences near the-Russia border. Washington has ordered the deployment of…
Death Camps in Poland were not Polish – get your facts right!
New laws recently enacted by the Polish right-wing government, makes any statement that implicates Poland in atrocities committed by Nazi Germany on Polish soil, a…
Three of a kind: The stories of three pilots from different conflicts – Reviewed by Mark Barnes
The self-publishing juggernaut rumbles on with this entertaining and quite personal work from Kerry White from Australia. Having published two previous books, he now turns to the…