US Troops Stationed in Central America Respond to Call for Aid After Hurricane Eta Pounds Honduras, Panama
Days after Hurricane Eta pounded Central America with drenching rain and winds exceeding 150 miles per hour, monstrous flooding lingered in Panama and Honduras. In…
A New Book Claims Bletchley Park’s Contribution to WWII is Vastly Overrated
John Ferris’s recently published book, Behind the Enigma: The Authorized History of GCHQ, Britain’s Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency, reveals the inner workings of one of England’s…
Gunny Hathcock – a Vietnam War Sniper Legend
Stories of exploits in Vietnam by legendary Marines are commonplace, but few Marines have had as many stories told about them as the sniper Carlos…
New Weapons For U.S. Army On Horizon: Latest High Tech Gear Assessed By Military Brass
It is axiomatic that even the most highly trained, experienced soldiers are only as effective as the weapons they carry; guns, grenades and other items…
New Book Alleges Poisonous Pacific Legacy of the American Military
Japan-based journalist Jon Mitchell has made it his life’s work to investigate and record the many ways in which he sees the Pacific Ocean has…
Falklands Aircraft Carrier Hermes now the INS Viraat for the Scrapheap
The Centaur-class aircraft carrier, laid down in 1944, but not commissioned until 1959, had a distinguished 25 years of service with the British Royal Navy,…
Hundred-Year-Old Carrier Pigeon Message Discovered in French Field
A couple walking in a field in France last September discovered a tiny aluminum capsule in a field. Upon opening it, they discovered a message…
9th Episode of WW2 Podcast Series – “The Finest Half Hour” – is out Now!
Commanders! The ninth episode of our WW2 podcast series – “The Finest Half Hour” – is out now! The war in the desert begins! Mussolini…
1943 M4A1 Grizzly Sherman for Sale
This M4A1 Grizzly is an adaptation of the Sherman medium tank that was built in Canada in late 1943. It is a cast-hull variant of…
Dutch Flower Girl Who Had Tended a War Grave for 75 Years Has Died
Dutch flower girl Willemien Reiken was just nine years old at the end of the War in Europe in 1944. She and her family had…
Army Major Conned Nations into Sending Him Tanks & Weapons
A British army major is accused of convincing Germany, Belgium and Sweden to send dozens of tanks and weapons which he then sold himself for…
New Documentary Reveals Story of Last German Soldiers to Surrender
Deep inside the Arctic circle, some six-hundred miles North of the Norwegian coast, lies the Svalbard archipelago, including the islands Spitzbergen and Nordaustlandet (North East…