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Sorry to Inform You, But Not All C-47s Can Fly to Normandy

Jack Beckett
Wrecked c-47

The Dakota Hunter tell us why…. We tried hard but the budget is too tight for the work still to be done, ha.  Over the…

D-Day 75: Jumping Into Normandy, One Man’s Journey

Jack Beckett
C-47

D-Day 75 is without doubt going to be the biggest anniversary of the invasion to date and the world is pulling out all stops to…

Aircraft Carriers: Images of the U.S. Navy in the Pacific

USS Altamaha

The monster aircraft carriers. Since the beginnings of maritime combat, it was the battleship that commanded naval warfare. Whether they were the galleys of the…

Alex Kershaw’s Latest Book, ‘The First Wave’ Available Today

What was it like to land on D-Day in the deadliest place? Over many years, I’ve read a fair few accounts of the hell that…

150,000 Men, 900 Ships: Excavation Reveals Size of Antony & Cleopatra’s Fleet

In the years that followed, Antony was busy – he defeated the assassins who had despatched Caesar and later struck up a romance with the…

As Australian As Mascots Get: Kangaroos In WWI & WWII

Jay Hemmings

Other uniquely Australian animals and birds were smuggled by troops to the Egyptian and other First World War fronts, such as wallabies, kookaburras, koalas, and…

Jewish Avengers Post WWII: Planning Vengeance

Ruslan Budnik

Many Jews who survived the Holocaust went to the “Holy Land” (Israel and Palestine) to start a new life after the war. However, there were…

Heinrich Himmler’s Descendant who Defied her Family’s Nazi Legacy

“The family considered him the nice uncle,” said Katrin Himmler during an interview with the Neu Westfälischer newspaper in 2010. She shares a surname with…

Vietnam War Pilot Received MOH 5 Decades Later

He led a group of six helicopters into the fighting zone. The battle was still going on and the area was subject to heavy fire.…

A Heil Of A Laugh: Jokes And Humor In The Third Reich

Jay Hemmings

Sometimes, in the worst of situations, all you can do is laugh. Humor and laughter are two things that are central to being human. Even…

In the Jungle: Helmet Art of the Vietnam War

Whether considered graffiti, artwork, or simply bored doodlings of young men forced to be soldiers in a land far from home, a soldier’s helmet was…

The Battle of Palmdale Where the U.S. Military was Embarrassed by a Single, Unarmed Opponent

Billy Moncure

The United States military does not like to talk about the Battle of Palmdale. It is undoubtedly one of the most embarrassing American military defeats…