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USS Ronald Reagan And HMS Queen Elizabeth Train Together In The Indian Ocean

Clare Fitzgerald
Seven ships sailing in the water

The United States recently teamed up with the United Kingdom and the Netherlands to participate in training exercises in the Indian Ocean. The two-day session…

Swiss Pikemen: The Most Fearsome Medieval Mercenaries

Swiss pikemen against German Landsknechts

One of the most formidable military infantries from the Middle Ages was the Swiss pikemen. Despite being a small contingent with little in the way…

Harry S. Truman Presidential Library Reopens After $29 Million Renovation

The Truman Presidential Library and Museum has re-opened after a two-year-long $29 million renovation that has updated the museum into a fascinating tour through the…

An English Electric Canberra Flies Again!

After a three-year restoration process, the Temora Aviation Museum, Australia, has completed the successful test flight of their English Electric Canberra TT.18 WJ680. The flight,…

The Bantam Battalions: Little Men With A Big Impact

Discrimination was probably not a word you’d hear coming from a commander’s mouth in WWI. In 1914, many of the top brass in the British…

Lumber Jills: The Women Who Made Up Britain’s Timber Corps

Two members of the Women's Timber Corps (WTC) cutting a tree with a hand saw

Throughout the Second World War, women in Britain stepped up wherever they were needed. Many volunteered as air wardens or joined civilian organizations dedicated to…

How World War II Spurred the Creation of the Flu Vaccine

Two sailors being administered vaccines

It’s hard to imagine a time when vaccines didn’t exist. However, up until the Second World War, they were few and far between. It wasn’t…

Treasure Hunter Claims To Have Found Legendary Lost Gold Train

Ilmensee-Express train + Piotr Koper + a pile of gold

Treasure hunter Piotr Koper has announced he’s possibly uncovered the legendary Nazi gold train at the bottom of a lake. After more than a decade…

USS Midway Museum Takes Delivery Of Its Freshly Restored A-7 Corsair II

A7 Corsair on the deck of USS Midway Museum, 2011.

In early June, the USS Midway Museum took delivery of an A-7 Corsair II that has recently finished a thorough restoration. The aircraft, on loan…

The Battle of Los Angeles: The Enemy Attack That Never Happened

Los Angeles Times newspaper clipping of the Battle of Los Angeles

The United States entered WWII after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The bombing put the entire nation on high alert, and…

5 Facts About The Siege Of Tobruk That Show Hope Is Never Lost

As the only deepwater port in Eastern Libya, Tobruk was strategically important to all combatants involved in North Africa. Before British forces arrived in Tobruk,…

US Veterans Excavate The Wreckage Of A B-24 Liberator In Sussex

U.S. Army Air Forces Consolidated B-24D Liberators of the 93rd Bomb Group flying in formation, circa in 1943.

A team has gathered in Sussex, England, to recover the bodies of two airmen who were lost in a violent crash in the British countryside…