The 5 Most Titanic Military Rivalries of the Ancient World: Alexander The Great and Memnon of Rhodes
Alexander of Macedon faces the Greek mercenaries of Memnon of Rhodes on the banks of the Granicus – the first battle of his conquest of…
22 Of The Most Incredible Images Of Crashed Luftwaffe Planes During The Battle of Britain
During the Battle of Britain, it is estimated that the Royal Air Force shot down 1887 German planes. Some planes crashed nose-first into the ground…
For Christ’s sake men—come on! Do you want to live forever?” Mowed down a 200-man attack by himself with a machine gun.
On 10 June 1918, during the Battle of Belleau Wood, 44-year-old Marine Corps First Sergeant Dan Daly, armed with a pistol and hand grenades, single-handedly…
World War Two crew remains uncovered in Malaysia
Researchers have begun the daunting task of retrieving the remains of two World War Two crew who were killed when their plane crashed in Malaysia.…
Fate of Irish Soldiers post-World War One
The Irish soldiers who took part in World War One returned home to more fighting and continual war over the years. In 1919 at the…
Franklin D. Roosevelt As War Time President: Hand-On and Decisive
Franklin D. Roosevelt led the United States through World War II and the Great Depression. He was the only President of the United States to…
Commanding Thousands – Approaches to Generalship on Ancient Battlefields
Modern generals are granted access to a multitude of communication and information gathering technologies from satellite imaging to UAVs and infantry equipped with cameras. Ancient…
Wewelsburg Castle – The Nazi Temple of Doom
The castle of Wewelsburg overlooks the village of the same name in Westphalia, Germany. It once belonged to the prince-bishops of Paderborn, and after that…
FASCINATING: The US built mock German & Japanese villages during WWII to learn how to bomb them
It’s well known that the U.S. Army built a myriad of projects in the southwestern deserts of the States to test various new kinds of…
Battle of Borodino re-enactment takes place near Moscow
[Via] A mass battle re-enactment Napoleonic warshas taken place near Moscow to commemorate the Battle of Borodino during the Napoleonic wars. The Battle of Borodino…
The wreck of thee DUKW sunk in Italy will be recovered – could hold the remains of 24 soldiers
The DUKW was an amphibious vehicle used by American forces in World War II. Near the end of the war, one of them sunk in…
26 sad images of WWII Airplane graveyards & storage sites
These are very sad images of, now priceless, warbirds that were left to rot outside to be recycled later. During and after WWII crash landed and…