What To Do With The Recovered Graf Spee Statue?
The sinking of the Graf Spee, the Nazi warship made famous by the wartime movie Battle of the River Plate, is a cause for further…
Montgomery Was Shot Twice During WWI – And Other Things You Might Not Know About Him
Bernard Montgomery, who was to become one of the most outstanding of British military leaders, was born in London in 1887. His grandfather was General…
The Battle of Monte Cassino and the Breaking of the Gustav Line
The main fixture of these nearly insurmountable defenses that General Sir Harold Alexander, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Armies in Italy threw the bulk of his…
Fought Japanese in China When 15, Then Franco in Spain and In WWII Europe, Killed 6 Germans and Took 2 POW During a Heroic Charge, Awarded MoH in 1997
One look at the life of Medal of Honor recipient Edward Allen Carter and it doesn’t take you long to realize that this was a…
The Altmark Incident – The Royal Navy Freed 299 POW But Caused Norway To Be Invaded By Nazi Germany
In 1940, a tanker was transporting 299 British POWs to Germany. As it passed through neutral Norwegian waters, the British mounted a successful rescue operation,…
Saving Private Ryan: 21 facts you didn’t know? Mel Gibson was considered for Capt Miller…seriously!!!!
Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 film set during the Invasion of Normandy in June 1944. It was directed by Steven Spielberg and stars Tom…
World War ll Jeeps Still Going Strong In Thai Village After 70 Years!
One of the problems with iconic products is that when they were first designed their manufacturers had no idea of the future status of their…
Kosovo-Made War-Film “Shok” Makes It to the Oscars
Shok made cinematographic history in Kosovo after becoming the first Kosovo-made movie – albeit in the short film category – to be nominated for Oscars. Shok, which…
Former Vietnam Enemies Meet And Become Friends 45 Years After The War
When Dennis was 20 years old he was drafted, and joined the 196th Light Infantry Brigade of the American Division. Murphy was sent to Vietnam in August…
Julius Caesar at the Siege of Alesia – the decisive battle in the conquest of Gaul
The Imperator Gaius of the Julii, who was called Caesar, was in Gaul with sixty thousand men. Twelve legions of Roman infantry were supported by…
2 February 1943 – The End of the Battle For Stalingrad
The largest and bloodiest battle in the history of warfare, the Siege of Stalingrad lasted over five months and resulted in somewhere between 1.7 and…
Top Vietnam War Movies – have you seen them all?
1. Apocalypse Now (1979) Apocalypse now is the Vietnam dramatization of Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness. This is the story of American Army Captain…