The Bell UH-1 Huey Gunship – Amazing Pictures and Assault Videos
The Huey helicopter, formally known as the Bell UH-1 Iroquois, was a famous Vietnam Era helicopter. It was originally developed by Bell Helicopters as a…
Why You Can’t Take Selfies At Auschwitz
A British novelist and journalist, Anthony Horowitz, recently made a plea for the banning of self-photography – the taking of “selfies” – at the Auschwitz…
World War Two British and Japanese veterans come together for reconciliation
World War Two British and Japanese veterans have reconciled and shaken hands more than 70 years after the end of the war. The Japanese were…
Youngest Vietnam War US Marine Was 14 Years Old, He Was Killed In Action Age 15
The story of an underage US Marine who fought in the Vietnam War has been uncovered. Dan Bullock joined the US Marines so that he…
Helicopters At War! Part 1 – By The Dakota Hunter
Around 1480, before he painted the Universal Masterwork Mona Lisa, the Italian Genius Architect, Artist and Inventor Leonardo da Vinci designed flying machines. Many based on mimicking…
5 Wars in Which Drugs Fuelled the Fighting
Drugs have a long history as part of war. These days, their main role is a medicinal one, but down the centuries they have often…
10 Things That Went Badly Wrong on Omaha Beach
It is widely known and accepted that the landings on Omaha Beach on D-Day were something akin to a disaster, everything that could go wrong…
For Sale: 6 MI-24 Soviet Attack Helicopters: 4 Million Dollars!
You can now be the owner 6 of these beasts; they are for sale on eBay for only 4 Million Dollars! The seller guarantees that…
Easy Company – Band of Brothers – The Crossroads Battle Explained
Introduction – The Island It is October 2nd, 1944, the 101st Airborne has completed its tasks on Hells Highway around Veghel and Eindhoven and has…
The Pine Street Boys – Three Victoria Cross Awardees From The Same Street!
Corporal Lionel “Leo” Beaumaurice Clarke, Sergeant-Major Frederick William Hall, and Lieutenant Robert Shankland all received Victoria Crosses for their heroic deeds in WWI. All three…
Hitler’s Last Residence, Fuhrerbunker, Went Unnoticed For 60 Years
A parking lot now sits where Adolf Hitler’s Reich Chancellery once stood. It is long gone thanks to Soviet troops liberating Berlin marking the end…
USAAF Airmen of 487th BG Signed Wall of Suffolk Pub – Staff Now Tracing Them Back To US
From April 1944 to the end of the Second World War, 487th Bombardment Group operated from RAF Lavenham and visited the Swan pub in Suffolk,…