The Man Who Refused To Launch Nuclear Missiles During The Cuban Missile Crisis – Saving The World!
The fact that you can read this is because of a man who said “no” due to an accident. In doing so, he literally saved the world.…
WWI: The Tragic Moment a Man Was Ordered To Kill His Best Friend
Private Jimmy Smith joined the British army to fight and protect his country. But after fighting gallantly at Gallipoli Campaign in 1915 and the Battle…
Glorious Gloster Single Handedly Charges Chinese Bunker Twice, Threw Grenade With His Last Breath, Saves His Men
It has often been said of both faith and war, that greater love hath no man than the one who lays down his life for…
It’s True! A toilet was used as an aerial bomb during the Vietnam War
On November 4, 1965, some Vietnamese came across a very strange object that looked as if it had been dropped from the sky. Was it…
The Day The Royal Marines Accidentally Launched An Amphibious Invasion of Spain
In 2002, a unit of 30 British Marines in a landing craft from the Royal Navy’s amphibious assault ship HMS Ocean, armed to the teeth, stormed onto a…
Spanish Court Orders Exhumation of Civil War Victim
The Spanish civil war of 1936-1939 was a classic struggle between Nationalist and Republican supporters. Spain had been in a state of turmoil since the…
Vietnam Vets relive Loaches and Cameraderie.
Early in November 2014, ten silver-haired warriors gathered at the Omni Hilton Head Oceanfront Resort in Palmetto Dunes on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina for…
WOW! High School Football Game Stopped Because US student Wanted To Thank World War Two Veterans
A student from a Louisiana high school stopped a game of football at the school because he wanted to thank the World War Two veterans…
37 beautiful, sad but touching colourised images of WWII
Many thanks go to Doug Banks and his team – the masters of colourisation. The beauty of these colourised images is that colour, allows you…
21 Sad Images Of Bombed Out Cologne – You Wouldn’t Have Seen Many Of These Images Before
The German city of Cologne was bombed in 262 separate air raids by the Allies during World War II, including 31 times by the Royal…
The North Korean Mystery Town In The Demilitarized Zone
The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea has long become synonymous with the battle between east and west. However, a mystery town has…
The Day the U.S. Nearly Nuked North Korea Over a Captured Spy Ship
In Pyongyang, the North Korean Government keeps a trophy from 1968. Moored on the Botong River, alongside the Pyongyang Victorious War Museum sits the USS…