Forget Thermopylae, This Is The Battle That Actually Won The war
The battle of Plataea is not an event that gets instant recognition like the famous battles of Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis. It often gets overlooked…
20 Facts About The P-51 Mustang – The Best US Fighter of WWII
North American Aviation (NAA) built the P-51 Mustang in factories based in Inglewood, California, and Dallas, Texas. It took them 102 days to build the…
Korean War: Chipyong-Ni – One Of The Greatest Regimental Defense Actions In Military History
The Battle of Chipyong-ni has been labeled as ‘the Gettysburg of the Korean War’ and has been singled out as one of the greatest regimental…
Lancaster Pilot Survived Freefalling When A Searchlight Helped Him Find His Parachute Which Wasn’t Strapped On
On February 19th, 1944 over the German town of Hannover, pilot Barry Douetil’s Lancaster was attacked by a Focke-Wulf 190 night fighter plane. The attack quickly set the…
Women in World War II: Cornelia Clark Fort
By Bill Beigel In the course of researching the World War 2 military casualties buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Fort Worth, TX, I came…
Hollywood’s portrayal of the Vietnam War
Hundreds of Hollywood movies have documented the Vietnam War. Some are very powerful in educating the general public and younger generations about the war. However,…
The Kamikaze Pilot Who Took His Wife On His Last Flight
Even though World War Two had come to an end, the story of a Japanese couple who met their death in a deliberate kamikaze suicide…
When Warning Was Required – The SS Athenia Sunk 8 Hours Into WWII – By Tom Sanger
A little more than eight hours after England and Germany declared war on Sept. 3, 1939, a German submarine attacked and sank the British passenger…
Beautiful & Touching: After Hours At Pearl Harbor Something Incredible Happens
The USS Arizona was a Pennsylvania-class battleship which was built for and by the United States Navy in the mid-1910s. She was named in honor…
The General Who Won WWII – You Never Guess How Stalin Rewarded Him
George Zhukov was a Soviet career officer in the Red Army who played a most pivotal role during World War II. He led the drive…
WWII Commercial: Shave Like a Man
In 2013, a shaving brand that was born in 1919 joined the parade of products trying to define what it means to be a real man…
Mutual Assured Destruction – 10 Blood Chilling Things You Need To Know
As a doctrine of national security and military strategy, Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) involves the full-scale usage of weapons of mass destruction by at least two opposing…