US Civil War enthusiasts reigned in from retrieving relics
America’s Civil War is regularly brought back to life by the country’s vast number of US Civil War enthusiasts and re-enactors. Another way to bring…
Tsutomu Yamaguchi – the world’s only survivor of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs
[Via] Japan’s Tsutomu Yamaguchi lived a long, healthy life until he died in 2010 at the ripe old age of 93. What could have killed…
CBS News report that turned the Vietnam War
On 5th August a little known Vietnam War anniversary took place. The date marked 50 years since US forces in Vietnam set fire to the…
Martin Bomber Plant due for demolition
By April 1944, more than 1500 B-26 bombers had passed through the production lines of the Martin Bomber Plant in Bellevue, Nebraska. The very next…
War Horse Ride 2014 Commemorated World War One Cavalry
The British Expeditionary Force was the force sent in to fight in France at the beginning of World War One. In 2014, a re-enactment, called…
Could the Nazis have conquered the United States?
Considering some of the different outcomes that could have happened during World War Two, historians and researchers have looked closely at how and what would…
He Managed to Convey the Truth by Blinking “TORTURE” in Morse Code During the Vietnam War
Prisoner Of War Jeremiah Denton, who survived 7 years locked in a tiny windowless cell in Hanoi during the Vietnam war, has passed away…
World War Two B-24 crash site plaque stolen
The plaque before it was stolen. A plaque that was placed at the site of a war time plane crash in Kansas City has been stolen.…
When The Jewish Members Of The US 1936 Olympic Team Were Removed From The Competition
Berlin 1936, Hitler accompanies the international Olympic committees – Via Bundesarchiv In 1936, the Olympic Games was controversially held in Munich, Germany, when Adolf Hitler…
Mine Removal: A HeroRat’s Tale
Somewhere the spirit and fire of Diana, Princess of Wales is absolutely glowing, as her work to remove forgotten land mines is being ingeniously realized.…
Victoria Cross: He Sucked the Bullet Out of His Wound & Carried On to Storm a German Dugout & Capture 75 Men
At the turn of the 20th century, Canada did not have much in the way of an army. The joke was that only its parliament…
EVENT: WARFARE THROUGH THE AGES AT THE TANK MUSEUM, BOVINGTON
See the history of warfare in action from Medieval to Modern Day with living history encampments, drills, weaponry displays, firearms evolution and period battles…