Last Cold War Vulcan Bomber retires
[Via] The UK’s last Cold War Vulcan bomber is to be grounded after this summer. During the Cold War from the 1950s to the 1970s…
Ghosts of the Gooney Bird Volume 3 – By Hans Wiesman
In my previous Blogs Ghosts of the Gooney Bird, I showed pictures of crashed , lost and derelict Douglas C-47’s/ DC-3’s/ Dakotas. Most of them…
German spies in Ireland during World War Two
75 years ago German spies landed at Dingle Peninsula in southern Ireland. France had just fallen under Nazi occupation and the first massive air bombing…
World War One’s Reckless Rex given home town memorial
[Via] A World War One Royal Air Force pilot known as Reckless Rex is being honoured in his hometown of Exmouth in Devon, in the…
How Germany remembers through war movies: The Bridge (1959)
World Wars One and Two have been epitomized and preserved on the big screen through hundreds of war movies. Many of the movies are incarnations…
One German who defied Hitler
His gesture remains engraved in the minds of people around the world, yet August Landmesser’s name is not widely known. He is the man in the iconic…
The Funniest Armed Forces Memes
Here are some of the funniest Armed Forces memes we could find on Military Memes excellent Facebook page! Shocking Navy Never A Dull Moment In…
WW2 Panther Tank Recovered from a Cellar
Cellars are usually the host of a number of objects of memories and interests from the past, but some people go that extra mile to…
Legion of Honour awarded to 90 year old World War Two veteran
A British Army veteran who took part in the D-Day landings of World War Two has been awarded France’s highest military honour, the Legion of…
Hitler’s artwork goes on sale
It is well-known that Adolf Hitler was a painter and painted many watercolours before and during World War Two. Now some of those original pieces…
World War One tank returns to South Shields
[Via] A life-size copy of a World War One tank has made its way to Arbeia Roman Fort in South Shields, near Newcastle in the…
Today 75 years ago the British Bombed the French Fleet at Mers-el-Kebir
Unable to stop the German advance in Europe, British soldiers fled through the Port of Dunkirk with French help. Weeks later, the British thanked their…