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British Commandos – Pride of Army But Shot When Captured By Nazis

Commando troops coming ashore from LCIs A new book has been published detailing the exploits of British Commandos during World War Two. However, it suggests…

What You Should Know About The Tomb Of The Unknown Soldiers

Many nations have special monuments to soldiers who fell in battle and whose bodies have never been recovered or identified. The United Kingdom has the…

Myth Or Real? Germany Built Wooden Airfields to Fool the Allies, So They Bombed It With Wooden Bombs

This story has been told in many ways, where locations of where the airfield was and how it was bombed being different but the gist…

Attempts Made To Save Historic US Military Boeing 707 From The Scrap Yard

Boeing 707

A historic Boeing 707 due to be scrapped is being rescued by military enthusiasts. The Boeing 707 is owned by the Pentagon and has the…

When Circus Elephants Went Farming During World War One

When World War One began the men and horses of Europe were transported to the frontline, leaving behind few people or animals to toil the…

Auschwitz Love Story Between Nazi Guard & Jewish Prisoner Which Saved Her Life

An Auschwitz love story has emerged more than 70 years on from the depths of a Nazi concentration camp, where a Jewish prisoner fell in…

DC-3’s Immortality Captured In Your Own C-47 War Relic Skin Panel – By Hans Wiesman

The Douglas Dc-3 was developed as a stretched version from its successful predecessor DC-2 that  first flew in 1934. That model crushed the dominance of…

Forget Thermopylae, This Is The Battle That Actually Won The war

The battle of Plataea is not an event that gets instant recognition like the famous battles of Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis. It often gets overlooked…

20 Facts About The P-51 Mustang – The Best US Fighter of WWII

North American Aviation (NAA) built the P-51 Mustang in factories based in Inglewood, California, and Dallas, Texas. It took them 102 days to build the…

Women in World War II: Cornelia Clark Fort

Cornelia Clark Fort

By Bill Beigel In the course of researching the World War 2 military casualties buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Fort Worth, TX, I came…

Hollywood’s portrayal of the Vietnam War

Hundreds of Hollywood movies have documented the Vietnam War. Some are very powerful in educating the general public and younger generations about the war. However,…

The Kamikaze Pilot Who Took His Wife On His Last Flight

Even though World War Two had come to an end, the story of a Japanese couple who met their death in a deliberate kamikaze suicide…