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War Memorial Defiled

Ian Harvey
War Memorial

After playing in a rugby game, a teenager of Pensyflog in Porthmadog of North Wales was celebrating and proceeded to get drunk and defile the…

Remembering the Teenage Soldiers of the Great War

As much as 250,000 young boys with ages under 18 enlisted in the British Army and fought in the front lines of the Great War.…

WWII’s most daring escape

Ian Harvey
WWII

Zero Night: The Untold Story of World War Two’s Most Daring Great Escape is a new book written by author Mark Felton that tells the…

The rise of virulent aboriginal Canadian snipers in World War I

Ian Harvey
Canadian snipers

Today no country can think of declaring war without having its snipers. They are now an inevitable part of any war. Most of the top…

Mystery revolves around missing decorated WW2 submariner

Siegphyl

Last fall, a hunter found of priceless treasures at the base of a tree in a forested area in Mena, Arkansas. The box contained military…

Monty’s D–Day party girl knew all the secrets of Normandy landings

Ian Harvey
D-Day

When nerves were at their peak on a night preceding D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy, a girl of only 20 years age was entrusted…

Conflict in the sky during WWI

Ian Harvey

The role of military pilots during World War I started out primarily as observers, often flying either unarmed or with just a pistol for protection.…

Dreams do not stop with Age

Ian Harvey
skydiving

Age is just a number if you are determined. Ralph Mayville, a great grandfather from Windsor, Canada, is a living example of this. A veteran…

Fuel tanks jettisoned by US jets in Vietnam War recycled by locals

Photo story (Clockwise from top left): (1) A jettisoned US jet fuel tank has been repurposed and being operated by a local Vietnamese (2) Many…

Nuclear War Was Averted, Thanks to One Cold Warrior

Ian Harvey
Nuclear War

The world may have been saved from a nuclear holocaust, based upon the decision of one man, a Russian officer aboard a Soviet submarine during…

Review of WWII movie: Fury

Ian Harvey
WWII

Fury is the name of the new movie by David Ayar, which takes place in April 1945 in Nazi Germany at the very end of…

Befriending the Germans after the War

Ian Harvey
Germans

After World War II, Anthony Brook, along with his parents and siblings, spent five years of his childhood living in a house in Hamburg with…