Can We Really Believe That the Days of Jet Fighter Pilots are Numbered?
Recently, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) matched an Artificial Intelligence program against an F-16 pilot with the codename “Banger,” in a series of…
Over 100 Napoleonic War Graves Found in Jersey
Rector Peter Dyson of St Saviour’s Church in Jersey has been astounded to find over 100 graves of veterans of the Napoleonic Wars in the…
Pickett’s Charge: Nothing but Glory
At exactly 2:25 PM, Confederate Colonel Edward Porter Alexander scribbled this note and rushed it off to General George Pickett: ”If you are coming at…
E Company’s Bill Wingett, One of the Famous ‘Band of Brothers’, Passes Away
On 1st October 2020, the world lost another veteran of World War II, when Bill Wingett died peacefully at the Edward C. Allworth Veterans’ Home…
Documentary Claims a Sub May Have Caused the Sinking of the Ferry MS Estonia
Foreign Ministers from the Nordic countries of Sweden, Finland, and Estonia, issued a joint statement this week that they would be assessing the new evidence…
UC-47, Surveyed After a Century Lying on the Bed of the North Sea
On the 18th November 1917, German submarine UC-47 was sunk by the Royal Navy. She lay quietly on the North Sea floor until surveyed for…
Navy Unveils a New 650-Round Ammo Backpack, Named ‘Avenger’
The US Navy has distributed new ammo backpacks, named ‘Avenger,’ to troops out in the field, though the Navy has refused to comment on the…
US Navy Commissions Newest Destroyer the USS Delbert D. Black
USS Delbert D. Black is the newest destroyer in the US Navy and officially began service on September 26, 2020. It required more than a…
Being a WWII Historian WW2TV Show – October 12th
In 2016, in a Guardian article titled ‘Big Books by Blokes about Battles – Why is History Still Written Mainly By Men?”, Sir Antony Beevor…
Haynes salutes British and Commonwealth Infantrymen with poignant manual ahead of Remembrance Sunday
Haynes is this month commemorating the British and Commonwealth soldiers who fought in the Second World War by releasing the British Infantryman Operations Manual. The manual,…
Divers Believe They Have Located the WWII Wreck of the USS Grenadier
Divers working off the coast of Thailand have discovered the wreckage of a submarine they believe to be the USS Grenadier which was lost in…
Lawmakers Make Way for Army Hero to Receive Medal of Honor
Sergeant Alwyn Cashe gave his life in service to his country during the Iraq War in 2005. On October 17th of that year he was…