Exploding Rats, Anti-Tank Dogs, Mini Subs, Guided Bombs And More, a list of the strangest weapons of WWII
World War Two required the production of weapons on a massive scale. The war was also a time when weapons research and development took center…
Chickens of the Gulf War – Operation Kuwaiti Field Chicken
A century and a half ago, it was common to use birds as detectors of poison and poison gases. Because of their delicate lungs and…
Amazing! The Battle For Okinawa In Full Color! (Watch)
Throughout 1944 Allied forces drove the Japanese from the countries that had occupied in the Pacific. By the beginning of 1945, they were within striking…
The End of the 900 Day Leningrad Blockade – January 27, 1944
Sieges are a familiar sight throughout the many pages of history and the many nations around the world. Yet there is one siege that left…
67 Year Old Man Have Been The Oldest Soldier of the First World War
100 years after World War One and a story of the oldest soldier to fight in the war has emerged. Thousands of young, middle aged and…
The Flaming Coffin, The German Heavy Dive Bomber The Luftwaffe Hated
The Heinkel He 177 Greif (Griffin) was an aircraft doomed from the start of its inception. Its design was intrinsically flawed, its engines frequently caught…
Stuart & Shermans – Paraguay Reactivates 75 Years Old WWII Tanks
IHS Jane’s 360 has recently reported that Paraguay is to return their M3 Stuart light tanks to service and maintain their M4 Sherman main battle…
Poignant First World War Guestbook Messages Published For The First Time
The Peterborough Women’s United Total Abstinence Council existed to promote abstinence from alcohol at a time when drink-fuelled domestic violence was a major problem in…
Two Unlikely Friends, An American B-24 Pilot And A German 20mm AA Gunner
These photographs tell a tale of friendship between two old warhorses that are enjoying their pasture. This would not have been the case 70 years…
The Oldest Ever Evidence of Warfare Revealed: a 10,000-year-old Massacre.
Research recently published from an archeological dig near Lake Turkana in Kenya shows strong evidence of warfare among hunter-gatherers. Though it has often been suggested…
Drunkenness, Disorder and the Plague: The Cadiz Fiasco of 1625
The English navy has a reputation as a force to be reckoned with from the 16th century onwards. But in the early 17th century it…
World War Two Plane Wrecks Search Continues In Germany
A group in Germany continues to recover and locate plane wrecks from World War Two still strewn across Germany. Sometimes they still have the remains…