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Tsar Bomb, Just Declassified: 1961 Footage of the Most Powerful Bomb Ever Detonated

Ian Harvey

In October 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the Tsar Bomb, the largest nuclear bomb in history over the Novaya Zemlya islands in the Arctic Ocean,…

He is Now Home, 70 Years After Being Listed as MIA in the Korean War

Ian Harvey

Former Army Corporal Billie Joe Hash came home, more than 70 years after he went missing during the Korean War and presumed dead. Cpl. Hash…

World of Warships Celebrates 5th Anniversary with Massive New Update and a Shipload of Player Gifts

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Update 0.9.8 brings a permanent campaign “Five Epochs of the Navy”, new Dockyard construction featuring Tier VIII U.S. Anchorage, the new temporary Asymmetric Battle battle…

Continental Tire Company Forced Camp Prisoners to Walk 25 Miles a Day to Test Rubber Soles

Ian Harvey

The German tire company Continental has admitted that it used slave labor during World War II in order to test the quality of their rubber-soled…

Loved by the Nation WWII Vet Elizabeth Barker Johnson dies at 100

Ian Harvey

WWII veteran Elizabeth Barker Johnson passed away at the age of 100 on Sunday. She received her diploma from Winston-Salem State University’s (WSSU) commencement ceremony…

Pearl Harbor Victim Brought Home for Burial After Almost 80 Years

Ian Harvey

Navy Seaman 1st Class Orval Austin Tranbarger was killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Nearly 80 years later, his body…

Historic & Restored LCT 7074 Delivered to Museum

Landfall, a 300 tonne D-Day Landing Craft, also known as LCT 7074 has been delivered to Southsea in the UK prior to delivery to a…

“Bazooka” Charlie’s Piper L-4H Reconnaissance Plane

It took 18 months of work, but Colin Powers has completed restoration work on “Bazooka” Charlie Carpenter’s Piper L-4H airplane, known as “Rosie the Rocketer.”…

Sophie Scholl, a Heroine WW2 to be Honoured by Germany With a Coin

Ian Harvey

Sophie Scholl was an anti-Nazi activist and a student when she was executed by guillotine on the 22nd February 1943, aged just 21, after being…

The Italian Navy Arrives in World of Warships: Legends

World of Warships: Legends brings in the first Italian warships, a new collaboration with Transformers, and a new system for players to manage and upgrade…

Live Like a Bond Villain, 3 Remote Napoleonic-Era Forts For Sale

Ian Harvey

Are you looking for a private getaway, and happen to have a few million pounds stashed away? If so, perhaps the three Napoleonic-era forts built…

Graf Spee Eagle Worth $26 MILLION, Could be Displayed at the 2022 FIFA World Cup

In the first naval battle of World War II, the British navy was able to ‘sink the’ German pocket battleship Graf Spee. Fatally crippled by…