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The Weapons They Carried: 10 WWII Infantry Weapons That Were Crucial to the Fight

Let’s take a look at the top 10 WWII Infantry Rifles of WWII, both Allied and Axis. M1 Garand The M1 Garand was the standard…

Cold War Secret of the Military Manned Space Laboratory Revealed

Recent American government documents have been released that discuss the details of a secret Cold War project called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL). This project…

Breathtaking Color Footage of Erwin Rommel And Afrika Korps (watch)

Having gained a solid reputation as a military genius of the highest order, Rommel was promoted to Lieutenant General and placed in command of the…

An Unassuming Double Agent In WW2

British citizens sympathetic to the Nazi cause and willing to pass on intelligence during World War II never suspected that Jack King wasn’t a Gestapo…

The German WW2 Sturmgewehr Assault Rifle (Watch)

After several years of rejecting the idea of a new automatic or semi-automatic weapon, Hitler asked his top commanders on the Eastern Front what they…

Pentagon Reviewing Service Medal Awards For Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans

Senior service officials in the Pentagon have been reviewing numerous files for months to ensure veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are recognized and awarded the…

Heritage Protection For Site Of WWI Munitions Factory Where Blast Killed 35 Women

The site of a First World War munitions factory at Leeds in England now has heritage protection. The qualification not only recognizes and memorializes the…

Tough But With a Heart of Gold – The Woman Who Escaped The Nazis

Olga Korec had nerves of steel to remove a white armband adorned with the Star of David and ignore the soldier calling her as she…

Memorial Held To Commemorate Bagpiper Awarded VC In First World War

Ian Harvey

The extraordinary bravery of a piper, 20-year-old James Cleland Richardson, who was awarded a Victoria Cross, was commemorated recently with a special memorial stone laid in…

Buying the myth: Russian Film Sticks With The Fiction

Ian Harvey

Historians are saying that a Russian film portraying the defense of Moscow during the Second World War is false. The new movie, 28 Men, borrows…

The Harlem Hellfighters – The Most Famous African-American Combat Unit of World War I

Ian Harvey

In World War I, nearly 380,000 African-Americans served in the U.S. Army. African-American soldiers primarily served in the 92nd and 93rd Divisions. While there was…

Liquid Fire – How Napalm Was Used In The Vietnam War

The First World War introduced many new weapons to the world of warfare. The first global mechanized war saw the first use of tanks and…