The Disastrous Dieppe Raid That Cost Thousands of Canadian Casualties
On the 19th of August 1942, the Allies launched a raid on the port of Dieppe in Nazi-occupied France. Though the operation was run by…
WWI Journal Reveals Wartime Challenges & is Essential to Understanding the day-to-day Aspects of Life During War
Like many soldiers, from many different armies and many different wars, Fredrick Shepherd, a soldier who fought for the British army in 1914, wrote about…
Pittsburgh Group Offered $1 Million ($18 million today) for Capture of Adolf
In May 1940, and over a year before the US entered World War II, a group of Pittsburgh citizens offered a reward of $1 million…
Was Classified Information Since the War – Man Now Learns His Father Was a WWII Spy
A Devon man recently received a package he has been waiting for since 1946. It contains the life details of the man whom he most…
Wounded Seven Times: WWII Hero of the 3rd Division to Finally Be Awarded the Medal of Honor
When First Lieutenant Garlin Murl Conner left the United States Army in 1945, after completing four years of service, he was a highly decorated U.S.…
Huge Discovery of Roman Artifacts Near Krefeld, Germany
A wealth of Roman artifacts has been unearthed over the past ten months north of the town of Krefeld in Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalian region. Excavations…
Magnificent, but Not War: George B. McClellan in Crimea
The Crimean War holds a strange place in history. Remembered for a failed cavalry charge and a woman of mercy, the war paved the way…
Sowing the Seeds of Secession: The Southern Theater of the Revolutionary War
Mainstream history and conventional accounts of the Revolutionary War recall America’s battle for independence as a conflict predicated upon a popular uprising in North America.…
96-year-old WWII Veteran to Receive College Diploma
U.S. Navy Veteran, Bob Barger, was a pilot during WWII and attended the University of Toledo after leaving active duty. Under the G.I. Bill, Barger…
Amazing Story of WW2 Airman, a Resistance Fighter and 3 Generations of Friendship
In September 2016 in the Spanish city of Vigo, a wedding was held. One guest among the many invited to the ceremonies held on the…
Katyn Massacre Monument Move Meets Resistance from Polish-American Groups
Polish-Americans are protesting plans to move a monument in Jersey City. The monument commemorates the victims of the Katyn Massacre of WWII. Over 20,000 Poles…
Spitfire test pilot would ritually urinate on the rear wheel of the aircraft he was testing, he has now been honored
Captain Joseph Summers had a peculiar superstition when it came to flying airplane prototypes; he would ritually urinate on the rear wheel of the aircraft…