US Air Force veteran who loved the B-26 “Widowmaker”
Henry Jennings was a World War Two aerial engineer with the US Air Force. A resident of Lubbock, Texas, Henry remains a staunch aviation enthusiast…
The Heavy Tank T26E3 Pershing – 1945
As the Second World War was coming to its end, the technologies on the battlefields of Europe were becoming more and more complex. The tank…
The 12 Best Civil War Movies
150 years after its end, the Civil War remains one of the most important events in American history. It has been depicted countless times in…
A Bullet-Riddled Shattered Stump is witness to the Violent Intensity of the Civil War
Photo story: The shattered, bullet-riddled oak stump is witness to the American bloody civil war (Left). A burial party of civil war soldiers fallen in…
Why The US Dumped Helicopters Overboard During the Vietnam War
Operation Frequent Wind, the largest helicopter evacuation on record, begins removing the last Americans from Saigon. The North Vietnamese had launched their final offensive in…
World War II As You’ve Never Seen it Before: In ORIGINAL Color!
When we think of World War 2 we think of black and white images and movies, however some of the cameramen were equipped with color…
The Greatest German General No One Has Heard Of – Lieutenant General Of Armored Troops Herman Balck
Herman Balck might be one of the most effective German Generals, whose actions are largely forgotten today. He came from a military family, his father,…
A Nightmarish Place – The Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp
The Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp lies just North of Linz, in Austria. It was one of the first large concentration camps created in Nazi Germany and…
The Weapons They Carried: 10 WWII Infantry Weapons That Were Crucial to the Fight
Let’s take a look at the top 10 WWII Infantry Rifles of WWII, both Allied and Axis. M1 Garand The M1 Garand was the standard…
William Ash: The Prisoner of War Who Wouldn’t Stop Escaping
William Ash was a survivor of the Nazis’ prisoner of war camps, surviving starvation, freezing temperatures, violence and slave labor. For the prisoners who survived…
World War Two Hurricane Excavated From Beachy Head
The daughter and granddaughter of a World War Two Polish pilot have helped to excavate his plane near Brighton in England. Kaziemierz Wünsche crash landed…
40th anniversary commemorations of the Vietnam War
Booby trap. Photo credit On the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, the country is looking to commemorate and remember its violent…