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From The Tank Museum: Popular David Fletcher Titles Reprinted

David Fletcher's The Great Tank Scandal

The Tank Museum is meeting a surge in demand for tank-related reading material by redesigning and re-publishing a series of classic David Fletcher titles. Following…

101-Year-Old Decorated D-Day Nurse Keeps Fighting For Her People

Marcella LeBeau is 101-years-old but has accomplished enough in her life to fill three centuries of living. She has been inducted into the South Dakota…

The Final Countdown Failed To Find Its Plot But Helped The US Navy Recruit

The Final Countdown Still

The 1980 naval action flick The Final Countdown received only average reviews at best upon its release. On the surface, it looks like a standard…

Sailor From The USS Oklahoma To Be Reinterred In Iowa

A U.S. Navy servicemember who was lost during the attack on Pearl Harbor has finally returned to his hometown for burial after his remains have…

Meat is Such a Treat – and the Black Market’s Hottest Commodity in the 1940s!

Sign placed in front of a chicken coup, which reads, "Please DO NOT BUY ANY POULTRY on the Black Market"

Americans faced a major toilet-paper shortage with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but this wasn’t the first time they nearly ran out of a…

Rejected Prototype Aircraft That Were Given A Second Act

Grumman F4F Wildcat

Not every aircraft that sounds great on paper actually proves to be great in practice. There are far more proposed aircraft designs than there are…

A-10 Warthogs Will Take-off and Land on a Stretch of Michigan Highway

A-10 Warthog

The US Air Force is preparing to conduct take-offs and landings from US highways for the first time in decades. The aircraft involved are the…

‘Sexy Sally’ And The History Of Female Voices Used In The Military’s Aircraft Warning Systems

Sexy Sally and Bitching Betty voice warning systems

When the Convair B-58 Hustler debuted on November 11, 1956, it was the first bomber to achieve Mach II flight. The bomber went operational on…

A Marine Returns Home – Remains from a Pacific Island Have Finally Been Identified

Battle at Tarawa Identification

The remains of a Servicemember who was killed in the Pacific Theatre during WWII have been officially identified as a US Marine. The battle that…

Last Surviving Member Of Britain’s Force Benedict Mission Dies At 101

Military portrait of Eric Carter + grounded Hawker Hurricane

Former Royal Air Force pilot Eric Carter has died at the age of 101. Carter was part of the top-secret Force Benedict mission in Russia,…

The B-52 Stratofortress Will Be In Service For A Century

A Field of B-52 Aircraft, Davis Montham Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona

It’s 1952: the P-51 Mustang is still in service, the majority of American homes did not yet have a television, and Elvis Presley was still…

The Sherman Tank – Beast or Bust?

View of a pair of M4 Sherman tanks as they manouver through smoke during a training exercise, July 1942.

The Sherman tank is one of the most well-known tanks involved in WWII, alongside the German Tiger and Soviet T-34. In the decades after the…