Tiger 1 & Fury Reunited Again at Tiger Day April 27th – Don’t Miss It
Tiger 131, one of the tank stars of Brad Pitt’s Second World War blockbuster ‘Fury’, will make one of its two yearly outings at The…
PART 1: The Top 30 Greatest War Books of All Time
Having been tagged as “one of the most enduring anti-war novels of all time,” this science fiction-infused anti-war story effortlessly portrays the ludicrousness of war.…
Ralph Parr: The Double-Flying-Ace So Aggressive The Soviets Sued Him
Ralph Parr was a unique man in many ways and is credited with several “firsts” in aerial combat, but his tenth and final aerial kill…
The Ship That Disguised Itself as an Island to Evade the Japanese in WWII
The main threat of being spotted was from the air. To effectively camouflage themselves they needed to cover the entire surface area of the ship…
Miss Montana is Flying to Normandy for D-Day Thanks to Phillips 66
“Phillips 66 contributed many significant advancements during the war, including a high-octane fuel to increase power and efficiency for long-range flight,” In celebration of the…
Project MKUltra: The CIA’s Unethical Cold War-Era Human Experimentation Program
The CIA has been subject to much scrutiny since its establishment in 1947 and this only increased following the conclusion of the Cold War, when…
RAF Pilot Flew Through The Gap In London’s Tower Bridge at 400mph
April 5, 1968, was a day like any other for commuters in Central London; the sky was clear for a change, and spring was in…
The Taiping Rebellion – When Christian Cultists Tried to Overthrow a Chinese Dynasty
What would you do if a young unemployed man approached you, told you he was Jesus Christ’s younger brother, and asked you to help him…
Flame Fougasse The Highly Effective Anti-Tank & Anti-Everything Device
During the early stages of the Second World War, it began to look more and more likely that the Germans would stage a full-on invasion…
Everyday Slang That Originated In the Trenches of World War I
The English language is constantly evolving, with new words being added all the time. This isn’t a new phenomenon, with terms and expressions from across…
Propaganda Of The American Civil War – Started Years Before The Outbreak
While it is commonly thought that the First World War was the first war in which war propaganda was widespread, propaganda goes back earlier than…
The mysterious disappearance of a USAF C-54
One of the largest ever instances of the disappearance of US military personnel happened not during wartime but in 1950 when a US Air Force…