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BATTLE OF BRITAIN – RAF Operations Manual – Review by Mark Barnes

Despite bouts of airport shutting fog and dollops of rain this is turning out to be something of an Indian summer here in sunny Essex.…

Mutual Assured Destruction – 10 Blood Chilling Things You Need To Know

As a doctrine of national security and military strategy, Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) involves the full-scale usage of weapons of mass destruction by at least two opposing…

Armored Personnel Carrier Converted Into Funeral Hearse For Veterans

Military veterans are being given a new option to travel to their final resting place. Military enthusiast, Nick Mead, has spent half a year on…

Scottish Pilot’s Missing Body Might Still Be In Lancaster Wreck In The Netherlands

On the night of the 12th of June in 1943, 503 aircraft from RAF bomber Command carried out a raid on the German city of…

Strange Cluster of Ruined Buildings Was to Be Hitler’s Californian Base

Set in the hills on the outskirts of Los Angeles, in a quiet valley in the Will Rogers Historic Park, is the unlikeliest of sights.…

Spitfire In Action – Battle Of Britain

A video around the iconic spitfire, from the beginning the creation of the spitfire. How the Spitfire helped win World War 2 and the Battle…

Town Council Votes on Controversial WWI Monument – “Separate but equal is not considered honorable,”

The Florence, South Carolina city council meeting was forced into a tense, emotional and deeply personal discussion over plans to move a controversial World War…

The Amazing Recovery & Restoration Of The P-38 Glacier Girl

On 15 July 1942, poor weather and limited visibility forced six P-38 fighters and two B-17 bombers to return to Greenland while they were en…

Sell Your Kidney & Buy This WWII M-18 Hellcat Tank Destroyer Now For Only 275,000 USD

This is one of the most original M-18s in existence, it is very complete, the engine runs well, has good power, good oil pressure and…

Out of fuel: Pilot Landed on a Container Ship – The Ship Claimed the Plane Under Salvage Rights (Watch)

An unusual incident involving a container ship and an aircraft from a nearby aircraft carrier occurred in June 1983, when NATO countries were staging an…

Jack Hinson: A Civil War Sniper Hell Bent on Revenge

John W. “Jack” Hinson, better known as “Old Jack” to his family, was a prosperous farmer in Stewart County, Tennessee. A non-political man, he opposed…

After 335 Years Of War Between the Netherlands & the Tiny Isles of Scilly: No Casualties!

The south-western extremity of Great Britain juts out into the Atlantic Ocean’s warm Gulf Stream waters. Some 30 miles out to sea, to the west…