TANK: 100 Years of the World’s Most Important Armored Military Vehicle
From the Greek phalanx to Roman siege engines, plans by Leonardo da Vinci, and the wondrous imagination of H.G. Wells, the idea of the armored…
An Escape Tunnel is Located at this Holocaust Massacre Site
A group of archaeologists and mapmakers seems to have discovered a long-forgotten hand-dug tunnel. The 70-year-old tunnel, dug mostly by hand by 80 Jews, was…
Women – The Backbone of Malta during WWII
Malta is situated in the Mediterranean Sea, 93km south of Sicily. It is an archipeligo of many little islands – the largest of which is…
Wheaton Cold War Bunker to be Demolished
The first nuclear age civil defense control center is scheduled to be removed from Wheaton. It’s one of the last reminders of the Cold War…
Salvatore Giunta, The First Living Recipient of the Medal Of Honor Since the Vietnam War (Watch)
On October 25, 2007, near the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, Specialist Salvatore Giunta sought out and recovered a fellow soldier who was being dragged away…
Nikita Krushchev’s Son Still Missing in Action from World War II
Former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s son is still considered missing in action. A former chief of the Russian Defense Ministry’s Directorate for the Memorialization of…
SUNBURN AND SPITFIRES – Shuttleworth Military Pageant 2016
Mark Barnes works on his t-shirt tan as a bevy of classic aircraft put on a great show for the Military Pageant at Old Warden,…
The USS Alabama As You’ve Never Seen Her Before! (Watch)
The USS Alabama (BB-60) is a South Dakota Class Battleship, launched on April 16, 1942. It served during World War II in both the Pacific…
The 4 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.…
10 Things You Must Know: How Hitler Came to Power
Before he was the Fuhrer, he was a Gefreiter in the Imperial German Army, a rank equivalent to Lance Corporal. Before he was a nationalist,…
Circling the 15th Century Wagons: The Hussite Wars
One of the strangest military formations ever seen in Europe, Hussite war wagons struck fear into their opponents during the early 15th century. Fighting under…