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A Cold War Game of Hide And Seek

For Cold war veteran Robert Dewey, the military was more than a job – it was a family tradition. Like so many other veterans of his…

Escaping Soviet Jets During Cold War – the story of Neptune’s Recon Mission

Call it a miracle, sheer luck or the present mindedness of the pilot, June, 22 1955 marks a very significant day in the US Air…

War Mystery Solved – P-38 Lightning & Remains recovered

The Solomons continue to throw up mysteries from the turbulent years of WWII. One mystery solved recently has been with the rediscovery of a P-38…

3000 Napoleon’s Soldiers Discovered in Mass Grave Lithuania

Remains belonging to Napoleon’s soldiers who fought for French Emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte, have been uncovered in Lithuania. The remains are part of a mass grave…

7 Weapons That Transformed the Face of War

Every new weapon changes the nature of battle in some way. Certain weapons have come to define war, and to transform the way it is…

WWI Out Of The Trenches And Into Perspective: The Great War YouTube Project

By Paul K. DiCostanzo Managing Editor – The Good News Review Between the years 1918 and 1939, humanity only knew the First World War as…

Cher Ami – The Wounded Pigeon That Saved 198 Men Of The Lost Battalion

During the Battle of the Argonne, in October 1918, ‘Cher Ami’, a female homing pigeon, which means “dear friend” in French, helped save the Lost…

HAWKER HURRICANE SURVIVORS – Review by Mark Barnes

We haven’t taken a stroll down Grub Street for a while. I confess I have been using another book they sent me as reference material…

D-Day hero Dies The Day After Receiving France’s Highest Honor

On June 6th 1944 some 7000 ships took part in D-Day, one of the largest seaborne invasion in world history. A total of 132,000 allied…

Convoy Veterans Defy British Warnings to Visit Crimea

In an open defiance to British Authorities’ advice, three Second World War veterans have made the trip to the hostile Crimea Peninsula to pay respects…

Civil War Canons Recovered from the River in S. Carolina

No one could imagine that in the famous Pee-Dee River in Florence lies a war relic that could uplift the morale of the whole community.…

Japanese Zero fighter to make first flight over Japan for 70 years

Japanese Zero fighter

[Via] The Japanese Zero fighter plane was a Japanese-made aircraft and was the icon of the Japanese Imperial Navy throughout World War Two. Now one…