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Senator, Marine, And Sailor John Warner Laid To Rest At Arlington

procession with flag for John Warner's memorial ceremony

John Warner, a former sailor, Marine, and Senator, has been laid to rest at the Arlington National Cemetery following his death on May 25th 2021…

The Real-Life Aircraft And Battles That Inspired ‘Star Wars’

Millennium Falcon and B-29 comparison photo

In 1977, film director George Lucas showed fellow friends in the industry an unfinished cut of a project he’d been working on. What they watched…

Ilyushin Il-2: The T-34 Of The Skies

By the end of WW2, the Soviet Union had mastered the art of mass-production, producing 80,000 T-34s, the second most produced tank ever, and 42,000…

Marine MIA At Pearl Harbor Has Been Identified After 80 Years

John Franklin Middleswart

Californian Marine Pfc. John Franklin Middleswart has been identified and buried with full military honors 80 years after he died during the attack on Pearl…

Kugelpanzer: What Was the Purpose of This German Armored Vehicle?

Side view of a Kugelpanzer

The Germans developed an array of combat vehicles over the course of the Second World War. The majority have accompanying documentation that allow historians to…

Felix Steiner: The SS General Who Turned Against the Führer

Waffen-SS troops firing artillery weapons + Military portrait of Felix Steiner

The Waffen-SS was a military division that aided Germany’s domination of Europe in the lead-up and during the Second World War. Initially consisting of soldiers…

Legendary MoH Marine Hershel W. Williams Welcomes Great-Grandson Into The Corps

Hershel Williams and great-grandson Cedar Ross being interviewed by CBS

The great-grandson of legendary U.S. Marine Hershel Woodrow “Woody” Williams has been welcomed into the Corps by his granddad. Williams was awarded the Medal of…

The World’s Worst Ever Book Signing Tour

ray carole

Ray Carole A former SAS sergeant who was the youngest member of the elite regiment when he passed selection is going on ‘the world’s worst…

Fascinating Facts About ‘Platoon’ – Oliver Stone’s Best Movie

William Dafoe, Charlie Sheen and Tom Berenger standing together in costume

The 1986 Oliver Stone film, Platoon, has – along with Full Metal Jacket (1987) and Apocalypse Now (1979) – become the ultimate representation of Vietnam…

1940s LVT Buffalo Dug Up In Remarkable Condition In The UK

Daniel Abbott poses by a 26-foot-long Buffalo tank which has been extracted from the earth in Crowland, Lincolnshire, where it has been buried for 74 years since it was brought into the village to help during heavy floods in March 1947

A WWII armored vehicle has been uncovered near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, after spending 74 years buried underground. The vehicle is a WWII LVT-4 Buffalo, also known…

Families Aren’t Happy With Plans Not To Identify 85 USS Arizona Crewmen

Army Sgt. (ret.) Allen Bodenlos, a Pearl Harbor survivor, salutes the Arizona memorial during a wreath laying ceremony at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.

The U.S. military has found itself in a tough situation regarding the identification of 85 sailors from the USS Arizona. In particular, the Defense POW/MIA…

Did You Know Wartime Rationing Actually Helped the British Public Get Healthy?

Crowd lining up outside of a fish monger

Rationing is often thought of as a type of “starvation diet,” but did you know that wartime rationing not only changed the dietary habits of…