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Researchers Nearly Finished With Excavation of Viking Longship in Norway

Ian Harvey

Archaeologists are excavating a rare Viking longship that has been buried for about twelve hundred years in Norway. It’s the first such excavation in Norway…

How a US Squad Saved Some of the World’s Most Valuable Horses

Ian Harvey

As World War II wound to a close, just days before Adolf Hitler would take his own life in a bunker in Berlin, the 2nd…

US Marine MIA for More Than 70 Years on Tarawa Atoll Returned to Home Town from Pacific Atoll

Ian Harvey

In three days of intense fighting, more than six and a half thousand American, Japanese and Korean soldiers were killed in the Battle of Tarawa.…

“I guess they didn’t know I was a marine:” PFC Edward Ahrens’ Last Stand

Ian Harvey

United States Marine Corps PFC Edward Ahrens holds a special place in the Corps’ long history of larger than life characters whose bravery and tenacity…

Crash Site of a Zeppelin Aircraft Found in Poland, a Century After it Happened

Ian Harvey

Over a century ago, the then young Western People’s Ukrainian Republic sent a Zeppelin Staaken aircraft on a secret mission. The plane was laden with…

Divers cleaning up the ocean net themselves an Enigma machine

Ian Harvey

Divers, working on behalf of the World Wildlife Fund, cleaning up the ocean of discarded fishing nets that pose an enormous danger to oceanic wildlife,…

Buried Deep: More War Treasures Found In Polish Woods

Ian Harvey

The woods between Poland and Germany are rife with treasures and evidence of the terrible, tragic events that took place there when the Second World…

Thieves Strike Russia’s Nuke-Proof ‘Doomsday Plane’ Flying Command Center

A top secret Russian aircraft dubbed the “Doomsday plane” has been plundered. The story could have come straight from the pages of spy fiction. The…

Blood, Metal, And Dust: How Victory Turned Into Defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq – Review

A friend of my son didn’t enjoy what we might call an optimal life and he was keen on a military career to create a…

Chuck Yeager: Legendary Pilot with “The Right Stuff” and Breaker of the Sound Barrier Dies Aged 97

Chuck Yeager, the man who broke the sound barrier, has died at 97. This staggering achievement became part of popular culture through novel ‘The Right…

RIP ‘Wild Geese’ Star and Battle-Hardened Veteran Ian Yule

South African star and real life war hero Ian Yule has passed away. His exact age and cause of death aren’t known. Yule’s public profile…

Chuck Norris Brings the Festive Cheer to World of Tanks

Get ready to take on Chuck’s Challenge as part of Holiday Ops 2021 December 4, 2020 — 2020 might have been a bit of a strange…