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This WWII Shipping Disaster Was Deadlier Than Titanic And Lusitania Combined

Ian Harvey

The Titanic was one of the greatest maritime tragedies and the sinking of the Lusitania was a wartime catastrophe. Both events, while disastrous, lost far…

Amazing Story Of Captain Charles Upham, The Only Combat Soldier To Be Awarded The Victoria Cross Twice

Jeff Edwards

When you have thrown on your first Victoria Cross, you have entered an elite fraternity in the history of war that commands the respect of…

Top 10 Tank Scenes – Not Only in War Movies (Watch)

This video shows the top ten tank scenes in movies – and they’re not all War movies as you may expect. The only criteria needed…

WW2: Accidental Detonation of 4,000 Tons of Explosives In England Killed 70 and Scarred the Land Forever

On November 27th, 1944, seismologists in Switzerland at first thought it was an earthquake, hardly guessing the seismograph recorded the effects of a massive explosion…

Navy Taking Back its Relics From North Jersey Naval Museum

About 100 antiques on loan from the Navy are being demanded back from the New Jersey Naval Museum in Hackensack N.J. to prevent further decay…

Epic: Recovering The Last Luftwaffe Float Plane From A Fjord In Norway 70 Years After It Sank

The twin-engine three-seater float plane was originally bought by the Norwegian Navy Air services in 1939. It was used by the Norwegians against the invading German…

The First World War As A Backdrop In New Game: Battlefield 1

Electronic Arts and DICE on Oct. 21 released the big production Battlefield 1, the most ambitious since the series appeared in 2002. Battlefield 1 exposes…

Little-Known Military Machines: Britain’s WWII Heavy Assault Tank

The British designed a tank especially for use in World War 2: The Heavy Assault Tank aka Assault Gun aka the Tortoise. However, this tank…

Exciting WWII Tales Of The Cromwell Tank (Watch)

War memories are sometimes teeming with amazing anecdotes, and in this video, Lindybeige recounts two of them and also talks a little about the British WW2…

German WWII Submarine Wreck Is Leaking Mercury Into Ocean

German U-boat U-864 sunk off the coast of Fedje, a Norwegian island, during World War II. The submarine was carrying 67 tons of mercury. When…

We Were Soldiers: Tony Nadal – The Battle of la Drang (Watch)

In the first major battle of the war that involved regular U.S. ground forces and North Vietnamese forces, Col. Tony Nadal and the soldiers of…

M3 Lee and Grant, A Worthy Opponent In 1942, Was Out-Dated Just One Year Later

The M3 was an American WWII-era medium tank that saw action on all fronts of the war, whether as part of the U.S. Army or…