Longbow and Broadsword in WW2 – The Early Service Of Fighting or “Mad Jack” Churchill
To those he fought beside, Jack Churchill seemed like a man without fear, but to those he faced in combat, he was a terrifying figure,…
Fail! The Rolling Rocket Bomb Designed To Smash The Atlantic Wall, Only Ever Managed To Kill A Dog
War is often associated with cutting-edge technologies, which have altered history by changing the outcome of many conflicts. The invention of the bayonet, aerial combat, and…
How The Soviets Caught Dozens of German Agents In A WWII Spy Game – Even Staging a Mock Battle To Keep Up Charade
During the height of WWII, a major funkspeil was about to begin. This counter-espionage plan, introduced by Joseph Stalin, was an operation set forth by…
In WWI, Tommies Spent Half Their Time On The Frontline And Came Under Fire Once Every Five Days
Operation War Diary is a project, started three years ago, by the National Archives in Britain. The aim of the project is to digitise the…
Haile Sand Fort That Survived Attacks In Both World Wars For Sale!
In 1914 the Admiralty wanted to use the Humber Estuary as a safe place to assemble coastal convoys, but to do so, it needed to…
Purple Heart Winner Buried At Arlington Was Pro-Nazi and a Holocaust Denier
Willis Carto, an 89-year-old wounded U.S. veteran of World War II passed away in October 2015. While fighting as a soldier in the Philippines, Carto…
John Keith Wells – Iwo Jima Veteran Still Remembers the Horrors
94 year old John Keith Wells, a decorated veteran of the Battle of Iwo Jima, has recently been laid to rest. Born on February…
The last battle of the Vikings – Fighting The Scots
It was the age of the Great Mongol Khans. It was the age of Byzantium, of the Holy Roman Empire. The wars of the Reconquista…
This Is What Testing Nuclear Bombs On An Island Looks Like, You Will Be Shocked!
Between the years of 1946 and 1958, a nuclear testing program was put in place by the United States in Bikini Atoll (part of…
Paul Bucha with a single Company FIghts Off An Entire NVA Battalion and Earn the Medal of Honor
It was the height of the Vietnam War. When the 3rd Battalion of the 187th Infantry decided to add a fourth company to their…
Steel vs Steel – Top 10 Epic Tank Battles in History
The tank is one of the most resilient and devastating army weapons. To break the deadlock of trench warfare in the western front during the…
The Pictures Of Hitler That He Didn’t Want YOU To See!
Adolf Hitler certainly did not like all of the photographs that were taken of him. So much so that if he thought a photograph was…