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The Russian Woodpecker: The Story Of The Mysterious Duga Radar

The Russian Woodpecker in Chernobyl

From July 1976 to December 1989 a strange noise could be heard on shortwave radios all around the globe. The signal was extremely powerful and…

Nijmegen Bridge: A Bridge Over Troubled Waters

Troops with the 21st Anti-Tank Regiment, Guards Armoured Division manning an Ordnance QF 17-pounder near Nijmegen bridge

It might look like a normal structure today, but the Nijmegen bridge was a pivotal strategic point throughout the entirety of the Second World War.…

Black and Native American Veterans May be Upgraded to the Medal of Honor

The branches of the US military have been ordered to conduct a review on black and Native American recipients of the nation’s second-highest award for…

Military Events That Prove Just How Unlucky Friday the 13th Really Is

King George VI and Elizabeth, the Queen Mother standing with a man near a damaged part of Buckingham Palace

Friday the 13th is considered one of the unluckiest days of the year. While many feel it’s just everyone being overly superstitious, others believe there’s…

A Submarine Made it Home with a Sail Made of Blankets

By today’s standards, a submarine from 1918 is rather basic, but even for a submarine of the time, using sails as a means of propulsion…

WWI’s Harlem Hellfighters To Receive Congressional Gold Medal

In this National Guard historic painting by H. Charles McBarron, Soldiers of the 369th Infantry Regiment, the Harlem Hellfighters, go into action near Sechault, France, on September 29, 1918 during the Meuse-Argonne offensive.

On Monday, Congress signed the Harlem Hellfighters Congressional Gold Medal Act, which will see the WWI infantry unit awarded with the nation’s highest civilian honor.…

Operation Olive: The Allied Attempt to Break Through the Gothic Line

Members of the 1st Canadian Armoured Division driving a Churchill tank down a dirt road

The final years of World War II saw Germany fighting a defensive battle against the Allies. The country’s forces had been pushed out of North…

M50 Ontos – The “Thing” that was Hated by the Army and Loved by the Marines

The M50 Ontos Thing - Popular in Vietnam

In the early 1950s, the US was on the hunt for a lightweight air-transportable tank destroyer. Similar attempts were made during WWII, but limitations in…

In The Angolan Civil War, Angola Had An Unlikely Ally In Cuba

Mural of Castro and Angola's Agostinho Neto in Angola, 1987.

When Angola was plunged into a set of civil wars that lasted decades, the last country one might expect to join in might be Cuba.…

99-Year-Old Pearl Harbor Survivor Passes Away From COVID-19

One of Pearl Harbor’s most dedicated veterans has passed away at the age of 99 after a battle with the COVID-19 virus. Stu Hedley dedicated…

How The Bandung Conference Of 1955 Was The Beginning Of The End For Indonesia’s President

Asian–African Conference at Bandung April 1955

The Bandung Conference of 1955 was a meeting of Asian and African nations, many of which were newly emerging from colonial rule. It was an…

Thief Steals Dead Veteran’s Purple Heart and Trades it for a Mountain Dew

A dead veteran’s Purple Heart medal was stolen from a family’s home in North Carolina, only to be traded for a bottle of Mountain Dew.…