World War 1 Was Not Inevitable
20 million people lost their lives in the First World War, while a whole generation of young soldiers of Europe perished in the terrible massacre…
Elite Cold War Soldiers Light-Weight Nuclear Weapons in Backpacks
News Track India reported on February 2nd that the US carried light weight nuclear weapons in their backpacks during the Cold War. The US and…
Gettysburg Foundation Plans to Reconstruct Cemetery Ridge
Stars and Strips ran a story on January 31, 2014 about the Gettysburg Foundation and their plans to restore Cemetery Ridge parking lot at Gettysburg…
More Than 1,800 Vets’ Records Intentionally Destroyed Or Misfiled By 2 Clerks
The two employees of the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis County were both students. Lonnie Halkmon, who is 28 years old, was sentenced…
Internal Memo Alleges JPAC Ethics Violations, Mishandling Of Military Remains
According to a series of Internal communications obtained by Stars and Stripes, JPAC’s Central Identification Laboratory, which is responsible for the recovering and identifying American…
Key Political Figures of WWI
The Global Post compiled a list of the key political figures during the First World War. Here are their profiles. Britain David Lloyd George (1853…
WWII Mini Series “Generation War”Faces Civil Action in Poland
The Second World War vet, whose name is not to be revealed, filed in a civil case against the producer of the series, together with…
British Paratroopers To Mark D-Day 70th Anniversary
One of the events, which is set for June 5 this year, will be a mass parachute jump and will be carried out by the…
Tension Between Bletchley Park Trust, NMC Hampers Work on WWII Artifacts
An engineer alleges that the tension between Bletchley Park Trust and the National Museum of Computing hampering is repair work on a priceless WWII German…
Siege of Leningrad: a 70 Year Anniversary Tribute
The Nation recently ran a story about the 70th anniversary of Russia breaking the Nazi siege of Leningrad. Monday, January 28, 2014 marked 70 years…
World War II: Japanese On American Soil
Frank Von Arx was on duty in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska when he wrote this letter to his friend Frank Gartz. He didn’t seem…
New WWII Discovery in Karimunjawa: German U-Boat
After discovering ceramics dating back to the Ming Dynasty in 2009 and 2011, divers from the Yogyakarta Archaeological Center has made another new discovery last…