“the greatest fighter pilot story of WWII” held off 30 German fighters from attacking a squadron of B-17 bombers for over half an hour
During WWII, he single-handedly protected a bomber squadron against German planes… even when he ran out of ammo. They called him the “One Man Airforce”…
THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE – Review by Mark Barnes
This book from our friends in Barnsley is from a series I don’t think I’ve had dealings with before. Regardless of this I thoroughly enjoyed reading…
Top Vietnam War Movies – have you seen them all?
1. Apocalypse Now (1979) Apocalypse now is the Vietnam dramatization of Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness. This is the story of American Army Captain…
Remains of a Lancaster Bomber crew found after nearly 70 years
69 years after a Lancaster Bomber crashed during WWII in Germany, remains of the five-member crew inside the wreckage of the plane have finally been…
New eye-witness account sheds light on who killed the Red Baron
Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, also known as the Red Baron, was a feared and celebrated German fighter pilot during WWI. He was considered an…
WWII P-51 Mustang Restoration Reveals Love Story
Sierra Sue II stood there innocently parked in a lot of the Bemidji Regional Airport in Minnesota. From the outside Sierra Sue II looked like…
Art Schaefer – Served As A Navigator On A B-17 Bomber
Art Schaefer, now 93, attended the University of Arizona with the intention of going into the mining industry, but fate took a hand and changed…
Operation Market Garden In Color!
Operation Market Garden was the plan by Field Marshal Montgomery to outflank the German fortified Siegfried line by going through The Netherlands. The Netherlands is…
The Bone Collector of Guadalcanal
Seventy years after the last rifle shot, Japanese soldiers are still going home. Roderick Eime, sends one fallen warrior on his way. He’d lay there…
The Russian AK-47 versus the American M16
The AK-47 and the M16 were two important rifles of the period following the Second World War. The AK-47, often known as the Kalashnikov after…
Stalin’s son Yakov Dzhugashvili captured by the Germans. He ‘died’ in a PoW camp
Everyone knows Joseph Stalin, but most aren’t familiar with his familial life, particularly his eldest son, Yakov. The tumultuous relationship between father and son created…
Real Life Air America: The CIA’s Covert Airline Used for Everything, including Drug Smuggling
The United States has lots of airlines: American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines, etc. One airline most people have not heard of is Air…