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WWII Vet’s Smoking Habit Nearly Gets Him and Wife Kicked Out of Home

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Andy Nowicki and his wife, both 90 years old, have called their apartment in Newington, Connecticut their home. However, they were informed by their landlord…

Vo Nguyen Giap, Vietnam’s fabled General dies at 102

Photo story:  General Vo Nguyen Giap smiles with Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh, during First Indochina War in 1950 (left photo). With soldiers in 1954…

Simply Ingenious! German Spy Cams and Bugs During the Cold War

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The CIA of the United States, the MI6 of the United Kingdom and the KGB of the Soviet Union — home to the world’s greatest…

WWII Vet Publishes His Second World War Memoirs

Gordon Huntington was in his 20s when World War II broke out. He worked as a signalman for the British Navy when he was captured…

History of Tanks: The German Maus

In late 1944 the Germans completed the first Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus the heaviest fully enclosed armored fighting vehicle ever to see the light of day. Just…

A Bullet-Riddled Shattered Stump is witness to the Violent Intensity of the Civil War

Photo story:  The shattered, bullet-riddled oak stump is witness to the American bloody civil war (Left). A burial party of civil war soldiers fallen in…

Re-enactors Depict World War II, Ammo Demo in DeRidder

Wings and Wheels Fly-In/Cruise-In visitors will be treated to a ‘time travel’ exactly in the middle of World War II! A number of groups from…

WWII Vets Defy Government Bar on their Memorial Site Despite Threats of Arrest

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Considering that the government shutdown prohibits the access to museums, parks, memorials and monuments in and around Toledo, the World War II veterans are considered…

Spies who weren’t even humans- The most highly trained ones by CIA

Photo story:  The I.Q. Zoo’s chicken tick-tack-toe booth, Breland (with a trained otter) founder of I.Q. Zoo, a dolphin in training to carry Navy equipment…

Canadian Soldier May Have Been Buried In German War Cemetery

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Family of a Canadian soldier who died in World War II feat may finally get the closure that they have prayed for more than six…

Enigma Shrouding Canadian WWII Soldier’s Burial Solved after 70 Years

Morley Roney served Canada as a soldier for four and a half years during the Second World War. He spent some service time in Italy.…

WW2 German Ace Stumbled Across a Crippled B-17 and Escorted It Home

Truly touching moments of humanity, ethics and morals are rather rare in warfare. The Christmas Truce of WWI was an excellent example of such humanity,…