WWI Stories: Ivanhoe Avon, the Great War and the Pennies that Saved His Life
Know the story of Ivanhoe Avon, the WWI soldier who owed his life to two pennies and who, through the course of the Great War,…
Nuremberg rally ground where the Nazi’s held their annual parades may be renovated
Calls to have the Nuremberg rally ground restored and made into a permanent memorial and reminder of the evil of Nazism have been raised by…
Josef Mengele – Nazi’s Angel of Death
Josef Mengele got his nickname the ‘angel of death’ because of his disturbing fascination with human experiments, which he conducted on a mass scale at…
Seventy-year old letter written on Nazi stationery is kept for posterity
For the first time in the history of the Jewish community an American Jewish soldier got a hold of Adolf Hitler’s stationery. It was during…
World War II Pilot Reunited with his P-47 Thunderbold, 71 Years Later
When they told WW II pilot Charlie Screws that they had located the tail- fin from the Thunderbolt P-47 that he flew in the war, he…
The Lost Airfields of the Americans in the North Pacific
Scores of abandoned airfields and other military establishments sit atop small atolls littering the North Pacific Ocean. These edifices were built by the Americans and…
Jim Martin, a veteran 101st Airborne paratrooper tells his story, personally on Facebook
To celebrate the D-Day anniversary in Normandy, France, 93 year-old veteran paratrooper Jim Martin once again did a parachute jump over Normandy. Mr. Martin served…
Top 10 Epic Tank Battles in History
Images Used (Clockwise from top left): (1) The Germans captured a British Mark IV tank in November 1917 during the WWI Battle of Cambrai (2)…
African American Civil War contingent suffered unrivalled hardships
Over 100,000 African American troops formed part of the Union Army during the American Civil War from 1861-65. Most fought with the Unionists to put…
Holocaust memorial ‘stumbling stones’ may return to Munich
As part of the nationwide Holocaust memorial in Germany, a scheme was started in 1996 by a German artist who created a series of ‘stumbling…
US Cold War nuclear missile bunker up for sale
A Cold War era nuclear missile bunker in Roswell, New Mexico has been put up for sale. Jim Moore, the estate agent responsible for marketing…