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Gary Sinise Has a Special Message for this Lucky Veteran… His Mortgage is Getting Paid Off

Jack Beckett

US Navy veteran Bill Day thought home ownership was a far off dream… till he got a special video call from actor Gary Sinise. Sinise,…

9th Episode of WW2 Podcast Series – “The Finest Half Hour” – is out Now!

Commanders! The ninth episode of our WW2 podcast series – “The Finest Half Hour” – is out now! The war in the desert begins! Mussolini…

1943 M4A1 Grizzly Sherman for Sale

This M4A1 Grizzly is an adaptation of the Sherman medium tank that was built in Canada in late 1943. It is a cast-hull variant of…

Bunker Hill – The Rabble Strikes Back

Guest Author

On May 25, 1775 – as gulls squawked, circling overhead – the British frigate HMS Cerberas dropped anchor in Boston harbor. Onboard, generals William Howe,…

Four Excellent Manuals from Haynes – Review by Mark Barnes

I once collected a multi-volume aviation history part work we do not see the like of today thanks to the glories of the worldwide web…

Netflix’s The Liberator to be Released on Veterans Day

Alex Kershaw

Texas-born Felix Sparks began WWII as an executive officer with 157th Infantry Regiment. He participated in four amphibious operations, first leading men into combat in…

Dangerous Drops and Secret Radars: The Story of Operation Biting

Parachutes and radar are long-established elements of war. But they both came into their own with Operation Biting. This British raid from the skies took…

A for Apple: The Lancaster that Defied the Odds in Explosive Fashion

A bombing mission is dangerous… but a night time bombing mission is extra dangerous! And that’s the situation the crew of Lancaster Bomber “A for…

New Documentary Reveals Story of Last German Soldiers to Surrender

Deep inside the Arctic circle, some six-hundred miles North of the Norwegian coast, lies the Svalbard archipelago, including the islands Spitzbergen and Nordaustlandet (North East…

Incredible Heroic Story of Grit & Determination of the 82nd AB

The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment was alerted at 2200 hours on 17 December 1944 following the return of Colonel Reuben Tucker., Regiment’s Commander, from the…

Bruce Crompton Asks you to “Put your Headphones on for History”

A new podcast, Amazing War Stories with Bruce Crompton, aims to save museums by telling incredible, real accounts of heroism inspired by artefacts and exhibits…

Germany Pledges Over €550 Million to Holocaust Survivors

Ian Harvey

An organization that negotiates for compensation from the German Government has announced that the Government will provide €564 million ($662 million) to aid Holocaust survivors…