Two Unlikely Friends, An American B-24 Pilot And A German 20mm AA Gunner
These photographs tell a tale of friendship between two old warhorses that are enjoying their pasture. This would not have been the case 70 years…
The Oldest Ever Evidence of Warfare Revealed: a 10,000-year-old Massacre.
Research recently published from an archeological dig near Lake Turkana in Kenya shows strong evidence of warfare among hunter-gatherers. Though it has often been suggested…
World War Two Plane Wrecks Search Continues In Germany
A group in Germany continues to recover and locate plane wrecks from World War Two still strewn across Germany. Sometimes they still have the remains…
Tora Tora Tora – The Best Pearl Harbor Movie Ever! – Facts, Figures and Goofs
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) is a film depicting the events of December 7, 1941, when Japan attacked the US Fleet at Pearl Harbour. The producers…
Could the Nazis have conquered the United States?
Considering some of the different outcomes that could have happened during World War Two, historians and researchers have looked closely at how and what would…
5 Things You Don’t Know: M1 Garand (Watch)
The M1 Garand rifle is a 0.30 caliber semi-automatic US rifle designed in 1928 by Canadian-American firearms designer John Garand. It was in service as…
The “Glorious Glosters” Greatest Battle – When 650 Glosters were up against 10,000 Chinese
Unique in all the British Army, the “Glorious Glosters” wear badges on the front and the rear of their berets. This right was earned in…
MUST SEE: 21 Amazing Aerial Shots Of Bombed Out Berlin Shortly After The War…..
Following the end of World War II, photographer Hein Gorny took spectacular aerial shots of the ravaged German capital. These were the first, if not…
The Greatest Lie In History – Double Agent Garbo & D-Day Landings
The D-Day landings on June 6th, 1944 was the Allies attempt to invade Europe and finally push back the Nazi invaders once and for all. General…
London Underground Wartime Shelters Rediscovered!
Life for Londoners in the Second World War was fraught with danger. On the first night of the Blitz, 7th September 1940, over 800 German…
Congresswoman Fights Ban on Burying Female WWII Pilots at Arlington
Elaine Danforth Harmon was born in Baltimore, Maryland to a middle-class family; her father was a professional baseball player and a qualified dentist, and her…
The Praetorian Guard: A Double-Edged Sword
By Ludwig Heinrich Dyck / ludwigheinrichdyck.wordpress.com The Praetorian Guard evolved from the bodyguard of the Republican army commander, the ‘consul’ whose original name waspraetor. When Augustus…