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Two Soldiers Killed in WW2 Battle Identified And Returned Home After 74 years

Colin Fraser

In October of 2011, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency was contacted by an Australian citizen in Papua New Guinea who drew their attention to possible…

The Battle of Tarawa: 76 Hours of Hell – 5,700 Dead for Twelve Square Miles

The Battle of Tarawa was one of the more terrible American experiences in the Pacific theater of World War Two. It was one that would…

A Pyrrhic Victory For Germany In World War One – The Battle of Jutland

Even though Imperial German Navy was a well-prepared force during WWI, with a considerable amount of powerful vessels, it was still no match for the traditional…

In the 1950s, The U.S. Army Was Almost Defeated By North Korea

Ian Harvey

In the summer of 1950, U.S. faced a new threat. The Communist Bloc grew rapidly in 1949, when China opted to join. However, the U.S. still had…

Gargantuan US Airforce Warplane Boneyard (Watch)

Joris Nieuwint

Arizona is the final resting place of US Airforce’s aircraft and has been since World War Two ended. There are thousands of aircraft that have…

ISU-152 Heavy Assault Gun From World War 2 With Massive 152.4 mm Howitzer

During World War II, the Soviets developed a massive mobile gun to defend against the German tanks. It was based on the KV-1S tank and…

Robbery and Murder Under Cover of the London Blitz in World War Two

Ian Harvey

German Air Raids on Britain were a feature of World War II, with bombing raids concentrating on strategic ports, important manufacturing cities and the capital…

USS Samuel B. Roberts – “Destroyer Escort That Fought Like a Battleship” in the Battle of Leyte Gulf

USS Samuel B. Roberts had a short-lived but ferocious service. The ship was built in 1944 and was immediately sent to assist the Task Force…

AD 732, Battle of Tours: Charles Martel the ‘Hammer’ preserves Western Christianity

Few Empires emerged as quickly as that of the Muslim Caliphates. Bursting out from what is now Saudi Arabia in the mid-7th century, the Islamic…

The Man in this Iconic Photograph Refused To Salute Hitler – The Consequences Were Terrible

His gesture remains engraved in the minds of people around the world, yet August Landmesser’s name is not widely known. He is the man in the iconic…

The American WW2 Corsair – Known as the Whistling Death by the Japanese (Watch)

What was the role of the Corsair in World War 2? You are about to find out by watching this video! The Corsair was manufactured…

Frozen in Time For 50 Years, This WW2 B-29 Kee Bird Was Almost Rescued (Watch)

Joris Nieuwint

The US Air Force’s B-29 Kee Bird was a Superfortress class aircraft. This craft belonged to the 46th Reconnaissance Squadron. This craft was stranded following an…