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…
The Human Bomb – Jumped From Stricken B-17 Without A Parachute And Survived
In 1943, an American airman participated in the bombing spree of a French town, resulting in incredible devastation. The man wasn’t satisfied, however, so he…
WWII Veteran Transmitted The News of Japanese Surrender 70 Years Ago
A World War Two US veteran, now aged 93, reminisces as the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender to the Allies approaches. Stephen Dennis was a…
Surgeon who head-butted an enemy soldier for threatening one of his patients, then killed 98 Japanese
Many humans worldwide fear going to the Dentist for pretty obvious reasons: The pain, the worry that you’ll have to get a cavity filled, and…