President Clears Way to Present Medal of Honor to Alwyn Cashe for His Heroic Actions
President Donald Trump has signed a bipartisan bill which clears the way for US Army Sgt Alwyn Cashe to posthumously receive the nation’s highest military…
Researchers Nearly Finished With Excavation of Viking Longship in Norway
Archaeologists are excavating a rare Viking longship that has been buried for about twelve hundred years in Norway. It’s the first such excavation in Norway…
How a US Squad Saved Some of the World’s Most Valuable Horses
As World War II wound to a close, just days before Adolf Hitler would take his own life in a bunker in Berlin, the 2nd…
US Marine MIA for More Than 70 Years on Tarawa Atoll Returned to Home Town from Pacific Atoll
In three days of intense fighting, more than six and a half thousand American, Japanese and Korean soldiers were killed in the Battle of Tarawa.…
“I guess they didn’t know I was a marine:” PFC Edward Ahrens’ Last Stand
United States Marine Corps PFC Edward Ahrens holds a special place in the Corps’ long history of larger than life characters whose bravery and tenacity…
Crash Site of a Zeppelin Aircraft Found in Poland, a Century After it Happened
Over a century ago, the then young Western People’s Ukrainian Republic sent a Zeppelin Staaken aircraft on a secret mission. The plane was laden with…
Divers cleaning up the ocean net themselves an Enigma machine
Divers, working on behalf of the World Wildlife Fund, cleaning up the ocean of discarded fishing nets that pose an enormous danger to oceanic wildlife,…
Buried Deep: More War Treasures Found In Polish Woods
The woods between Poland and Germany are rife with treasures and evidence of the terrible, tragic events that took place there when the Second World…
Thieves Strike Russia’s Nuke-Proof ‘Doomsday Plane’ Flying Command Center
A top secret Russian aircraft dubbed the “Doomsday plane” has been plundered. The story could have come straight from the pages of spy fiction. The…
Trenton: A Day That Changed the World
A light rain had begun to fall out of a pewter grey sky, spattering dirt on the troops as they slowly made their way down…
Blood, Metal, And Dust: How Victory Turned Into Defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq – Review
A friend of my son didn’t enjoy what we might call an optimal life and he was keen on a military career to create a…
Chuck Yeager: Legendary Pilot with “The Right Stuff” and Breaker of the Sound Barrier Dies Aged 97
Chuck Yeager, the man who broke the sound barrier, has died at 97. This staggering achievement became part of popular culture through novel ‘The Right…