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Dambusters pilot to sell medals to save Bomber Command Memorial

Dambusters

Squadron Leader Les Munro is Britain’s last surviving World War Two Dambusters pilot and he has decided to sell the medals he received for bravery…

20 Mind-Boggling Facts About Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler, one of the worst dictators ever if not the worst in recorded human history, was responsible for 60 to 85 million deaths during…

Officer served in THREE wars, was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear, escaped a PoW camp and bit off his fingers when doctors refused to amputate

Ian Harvey

  It reads more like the unbelievable exploits of the Terminator. But the remarkable heroics ofLieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart are entirely…

Microsoft Co-Founder Found Japan’s Biggest WWII Warship, the “Musashi”, Under Philippine Waters

Philippines – Microsoft co-founder and US billionaire Paul Allen said that he and his team have located Japanese Navy’s biggest WWII warship, the Musashi, under Philippine…

US Air Force commemorates 50 years since Vietnam War Operation Rolling Thunder

Ian Harvey
Operation Rolling Thunder

It is 50 years since the US Air Force launched its Operation Rolling Thunder campaign during the Vietnam War and the Air Force is holding…

IWO JIMA’S TWO FLAGS AND 26,000 CASUALTIES by Richard Brook

A big welcome to our new contributor – Richard Brook and this is one of his articles from his great www.richardmbrook.com. Lead image by Adam…

Hitler’s Mein Kampf to be published once again in Germany

Mein Kampf

German authorities have given the go-ahead for Hitler’s Nazi manifesto, Mein Kampf, to be once again re-published from 2016 onwards. The decision has come under…

GARDENS OF HELL – Review by Mark Barnes

I am not going to be smug about anything to do with Gallipoli. I visited the battlefield for the first time last September and had…

Aircraft storage yard in Arizona desert

Thousands of out-of-service aircraft are flown to the Tucson desert in Arizona to be stored or dismantled for scrap at the US government’s aircraft storage…

World of Tanks Generals Closed Beta Commences Today

Wargaming

Players enlisted for this new free-to-play game can now put their skills to the test. Wargaming today announced that the World of Tanks Generals Closed…

Four Aussie WWII Vets Receive Highest Military Honor from France

February 25, 2015 – Four Aussie WWII vets were given the highest French military honor – the Légion d’honneur – in a ceremony that took place in the French Embassy…

Cold War-era airborne command center to be restored

Ian Harvey
airborne command center

The Strategic Air and Space Museum in Ashland, Nebraska, is restoring one of the ‘Looking Glass’ aircraft, which were used during the Cold War as…