Paratrooper Bicycles Were Incredibly Popular And Featured A Brilliant Design
As if jumping out of an aircraft laden with parachutes, equipment, and a weapon while under enemy fire wasn’t daring enough, some British paratroopers made…
Civil War Air Balloons Existed And Had Their Own Corp
An air balloon and gunfire is not something you’d usually want to mix together, but the Union Army certainly did so with respectable results during…
Weather Station Kurt: The German’s Only North American Operation During the 1940s
In 1943 a German U-boat visited Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada and established the only German military operation on North American soil during the war.…
Fake Spy Trees and their use in No Man’s Land
The stalemate in the trenches during The Great War meant the two sides were evenly matched, so even the smallest advantage for one could mean…
Lockheed nearly armed the U-2 with anti-ship missiles
The Lockheed U-2 has been serving the US silently at high altitudes since the 1950s. In that time, it has been used by the US…
The Biggest Invasions of Afghanistan: 330 BC to Present-Day
The withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan created an unprecedented situation. The Taliban has once again seized control, leading many Afghan citizens to risk their…
The Band Foo Fighters Named Themselves After This Strange War Mystery
Have you ever wondered what the Foo Fighter’s band name actually means? For such a famous band, the answer is surprisingly mysterious. Created by former…
Laos and the CIA’s “Secret War” Inside the Most Bombed Country Per Capita
Despite strategic bombing being an iconic symbol of the Second World War, Germany, nor any other European country for that matter, holds the title for…
Milton L. Olive III: The First Black Soldier to Receive the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War
Milton L. Olive III came from humble beginnings, bouncing between Chicago and his grandparents’ farm in Mississippi. Despite his ordinary upbringing, Olive would prove to…
In The Angolan Civil War, Angola Had An Unlikely Ally In Cuba
When Angola was plunged into a set of civil wars that lasted decades, the last country one might expect to join in might be Cuba.…
How The Bandung Conference Of 1955 Was The Beginning Of The End For Indonesia’s President
The Bandung Conference of 1955 was a meeting of Asian and African nations, many of which were newly emerging from colonial rule. It was an…
The “Great Impostor” — Fred Demara Pretended To Be A Ship’s Surgeon And Didn’t Lose A Soul
Ferdinand “Fred” Waldo Demara Jr. was a monk, a surgeon, and a lawyer. Well, kind of. He was a very skilled American impostor who was…