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In Commemoration of Armistice Day Here are Some Colorized Images of WW1 – Brings Them Alive

Jack Beckett

Many thanks go to Doug Banks and his team – the masters of colorization.  The beauty of these colorized images is that color allows you…

First British Ship Sunk By the Germans in WWII May Have Been Discovered

David Mearns is a shipwreck hunter. He says sonar data he has acquired shows the wreck of the Athenia, a passenger liner that was the…

“On Eternal Patrol Memorial Reef” To Honor 66 Lost U.S. Submarines

First undersea memorial to recognize all lost submarine crews and boats to be dedicated in Sarasota 50 years after loss of the USS Scorpion As…

Hipster Before His Time: General Burnside – The Swashbuckling Union General Who Pioneered Sideburns

What do a rifle, various railroads, the American Civil War, the Franco-Prussian War, the National Rifle Association, and sideburns have in common? Here is the…

Vlad The Impaler – He Loved To Impale Captured Soldiers – A Lot

Vlad the Impaler, Vlad Tepes, is one of the greatest and more interesting figures from history. Vlad III was likely born in a fortress in…

The American Civil War – the Union told all the European countries if they recognized the Confederacy’s legitimacy, it was equal to declaring war against the Union

By the beginning of the American Civil War, the United States was a little more than 50 years of age. They had started to develop relationships…

The Only Woman Ever To Join The French Foreign Legion Served In WWII & Vietnam

The Légion Étrangère is better known as the French Foreign Legion – a military organization open to men who are foreign nationals. In 1945, however,…

On fire this heroic airman picked up a burning 1,100° phosphorus bomb to save his crew certain death

The Medal of Honor is America’s highest military award given to those for acts of valor that in some cases border on insanity. In WWII,…

The Story Of One Marine – The World War I Letters and Photos of Pvt. Thomas L. Stewart – By James P. Gregory, Jr.

Thomas L. Stewart joined the United States Marine Corps on June 22, 1917—just two months after America entered World War One. Private Stewart was a…

Time To Say ‘Tanks’ To Our WW1 Commanders

One of the most important men in the history of the tank is to be remembered a century after the most significant moment of his…

MoH Ace: It was common for pilots to celebrate aerial victories over the airfield with a barrel roll – he did 7

Jeff Edwards

Over the course of a long war, there were many American flying Aces. A large number of them reached into double-digit numbers of kills.  However,…

The Most Terrible, Deadliest Sieges Before the 19th Century

Sieges throughout history were awful affairs. Unlike Field Battles, Sieges involved civilians, as well as numerous ways to die over long periods of time. Starvation…