MATILDA DIARIES Part 8 – Follow The Renovation Of This Historic Second World War Tank
Following on from the news regarding the Matilda II renovation, a new series of videos are being produced for The Tank Museum YouTube channel that will…
WW1: The First And Last British Commonwealth Casualties Rest In The Same Belgian Cemetery
There were an estimated 66,000 Canadian soldiers who were killed during the First World War. George Lawrence Price was one of them. By many accounts,…
Land Forces of the Hundred Years War – A War That Seemed To Have No End
Fought from 1337 to 1453, the Hundred Years War was one of the most significant conflicts of the late Middle Ages. As the Plantagenet kings of…
When A Chinese Submarine Appeared In The Middle Of A US Navy Carrier Battle Group
On 11th November 2006, the Commander of the US Navy’s Pacific Fleet at the time, Gary Roughead, made a historic visit to China in a…
Henry Mucci’s rescue of POWs from Cabanatuan Prison Camp
On the face of it, it looked to be a rescue mission with little chance of success. Reports had filtered through of the most terrible…
WW2: Accidental Detonation of 4,000 Tons of Explosives In England Killed 70 and Scarred the Land Forever
On November 27th, 1944, seismologists in Switzerland at first thought it was an earthquake, hardly guessing the seismograph recorded the effects of a massive explosion…
The Longbow: Its Rise and Dominance – It Totally Changed Medieval Warfare
The growing effectiveness of metal armor created a challenge for medieval soldiers. While the elite of knights and men-at-arms were now well protected, the majority…
Madagascar Air Force Boneyard: Tragic End of Douglas C-47s, MiG0-21s and Antonovs
In this DAKOTA HUNTER BLOG, you will read and see photos of yet another Aircraft Boneyard that existed for years in Madagascar. In one of…
Movie Mistakes – Some Of The Worst Things Hollywood Gets Wrong about Ancient and Medieval Battles
Personally, I love Hollywood historical epics no matter how ridiculously inaccurate they are. Anything that gets history out in the world is okay with me.…
India Firming Up Plans To Further Expand Navy With Another New Aircraft Carrier
India’s second aircraft carrier will be powered by nuclear energy, the latest report prepared by prominent Defense journalist Ajay Shukla says. The Navy already has…
When 20 P-51 Mustangs Take Off, The Glorious Sound Of Humming Merlins Fills The Air (Watch)
In 2007, over eighty P-51 Mustangs and hundreds of WWII aviation Legends including Fighter Aces, Tuskegee Airmen and WASPs, along with thousands of spectators, came…
This Might Have Been Britain’s Weirdest Ever Tank – The Independent A1E1
Ordered to War Office specifications in 1922, the Independent A1E1 finally appeared in 1926, to a revised design by Vickers-Armstrong. It took part in the…