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Imber, The Ghost Town Abandoned Since WWII

The town of Imber, near Trowbridge, in Wiltshire, was evacuated on December 17, 1943. The U.S. Army needed it to practice for the D-Day invasion.…

The Battle of Arsuf – To Win the Day, One Man Must Defy His Own King

Malcolm Higgins

Beneath the relentless beating of the midday sun, under a seemingly endless rain of arrows, The Grand Master’s patience had all but run out. Garnier…

The Cactus Air Force: Guadalcanal’s Shoestring Flyers Took On Japanese Zero’s and Won

The Battle of Guadalcanal was one of the most important battles in the Pacific theatre of World War Two. Marking the furthest expansion of the…

10 Of The Best P-51 Mustang Pictures!

Celebrate 75 years of the iconic World War II warbird that helped win the war and flew into the heart of American life. From D-Day…

Corporal Dunham: First Marine to Receive Medal of Honor Since Vietnam – Jumped on a Grenade To Save Fellow Marines

Jeff Edwards

In the decades following the Vietnam War, there would be conflict, battle, and loss of life.  But for the United States Marine Corps whose tradition…

Top 10 U.S. Fighter Aces of World War II

Here are the top ten American aces based on their recorded kills or enemy planes that they shot down. 10 – Robert M. Hanson As…

Fort Drum, the unsinkable concrete ‘battleship’ of Manila Bay

Jack Beckett

Anyone who pays a visit to Manila Bay will not easily forget the enchanting sight of the ruined concrete fort that looks as if it…

1984: The Autobahn Airfield – A10s, Hercules’ and Fighters Land On A Highway (Watch)

Joris Nieuwint

In 1984, the NATO held an exercise on the German Highway, known as the Autobahn, to test one of the contingency plans in case the regular…

95-Year-Old Sobibor Concentration Camp Survivor Dies

Jules Schelvis, on of the last Dutch survivors of Sobibor, one of three Nazi death camps in occupied Poland, has passed away at age 95.…

Nazi war criminals must be punished

Inevitably as time passes, more and more of the men and women that were alive at the time of World War II, will pass on…

SERBIA AND THE BALKAN FRONT, 1914 – The Outbreak of the Great War – Review by Wayne Osborne

This is an accessible, detailed, readable and thoroughly researched book.  It is a clear analysis of the Serbs in 1914 and of their early war…

Yugoslav Fighters In Spanish Civil War

Yugoslavs, who fought as volunteers in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side, are called “Spanish fighters” or “Yugoslav Spaniards.” Belgrade Association of Spanish…