Dreams do not stop with Age
Age is just a number if you are determined. Ralph Mayville, a great grandfather from Windsor, Canada, is a living example of this. A veteran…
Fuel tanks jettisoned by US jets in Vietnam War recycled by locals
Photo story (Clockwise from top left): (1) A jettisoned US jet fuel tank has been repurposed and being operated by a local Vietnamese (2) Many…
Nuclear War Was Averted, Thanks to One Cold Warrior
The world may have been saved from a nuclear holocaust, based upon the decision of one man, a Russian officer aboard a Soviet submarine during…
Review of WWII movie: Fury
Fury is the name of the new movie by David Ayar, which takes place in April 1945 in Nazi Germany at the very end of…
BLOOD DIVIDE – Review by Phil Hodges
When Mark ‘The Ed’ Barnes at WHO HQ said he was sending me Something a little different in the post I feared the worst. Not another…
Befriending the Germans after the War
After World War II, Anthony Brook, along with his parents and siblings, spent five years of his childhood living in a house in Hamburg with…
Balloons – Japanese Terror Weapon of WWII
Most Americans have no idea that the American mainland was attacked prior to 9/11. World War II history buffs may know that during 1942, shelling…
German Unification and the fall of Berlin Wall
The German unification and the final fall of the Berlin wall began in Hungary 25 years ago when the country’s government brought down the security fences…
LUFTWAFFE BOMBERS B of B – Review by Mark Barnes
Here we are again for the first time in a while with one of the Images of War series I have a lot of time…
Famous Italian Cyclist, Gino Bartali, is a Secret Hero
Gino Bartali was a famous Italian cyclist who won several titles in the 1930’s, including three Giro d’Italia events, a key cycling competition in Europe,…
Bairnsfather: Will He Be Recognized After 100 years For his Contribution?
One of the relics of a bygone age are the Bairnsfather cartoons that helped to sustain the morale of British troops of the First World…
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Marks 71st Remembrance Anniversary
Earlier this year, the Jewish community in Poland and Warsaw’s local residents gathered together to celebrate the 71st anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against…