Operation Market Garden In Color!
Operation Market Garden was the plan by Field Marshal Montgomery to outflank the German fortified Siegfried line by going through The Netherlands. The Netherlands is…
British D-Day Paratrooper Officer Who Defended Orne River and Caen Canal Bridges Died Aged 94
June 6th, 1944, known as D-Day, was a historic day for France. Almost exactly four years from the date of the Nazi invasion of their…
Waterfall of Poppies to Commemorate Battle Of Jutland 100 Years ago
A waterfall of blood-red ceramic poppies will tumble down the walls of St. Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall for the period of April 22, 2016, to…
The largest battlefield isn’t on land, it’s on the seabed. Dr Innes McCartney has mapped the whole battlefield for his new book
HMS Invincible sinking The Battle of Jutland was the largest naval battle and the only full-scale clash of battleships in the First World War.…
New Orleans Moves To Relocate Confederacy Monuments, Judge Rules: OK
The southern US city of New Orleans is planning to remove four historical Confederacy monuments that were originally built to commemorate the secessionist American states…
From Jockey to Tunnel Rat – Viet Nam Vet Tells His Story
Standing only five foot tall in a line of thirty other young men, Kennith Ritchie waited for what everyone knew what was to come –…
Top 6 Great Guns in the History of The US Army
Images Used (Clockwise from top Left): (1) A Beretta M9 (2) US Marines on board the USS Blue Ridge and training with Beretta M9 pistols…
The Russian AK-47 versus the American M16
The AK-47 and the M16 were two important rifles of the period following the Second World War. The AK-47, often known as the Kalashnikov after…
Doctor Seeks Funding To Recover B-24 Photo Queen
A doctor from New Jersey has been searching for a missing World War Two plane that crashed in New Guinea during the war, and it…
SAS Legend & Mountaineer John ‘Brummie’ Stokes Dies
John ‘Brummie’ Stokes was both a gentleman and a man’s man. He was born in 1945 in the village of Hamstead near Birmingham. His parents…
The A10 Warthog Will Not Be Retired After All!
Known to its many admirers as ‘The Warthog’, the US Air Force’s A10 Thunderbolt is essentially a flying gun. The A10 carries the 30mm GAU-8…
The Man Who Refused To Launch Nuclear Missiles During The Cuban Missile Crisis – Saving The World!
The fact that you can read this is because of a man who said “no” due to an accident. In doing so, he literally saved the world.…