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Ghosts of Time: 39 Incredible Then & Now WWII Pictures

Not everyone was happy when the First World War ended, and it was not just the Germans, who were severely punished for their role in…

5 Secret Military Bases in Unbelievable Places (Watch)

A missile base buried under the ice, mysterious Japanese submarine bases in Mexico, a Nazi weather station in Canada, a secret Japanese WWII town in…

Killing The Fuhrer: The Many Attempts on Hitler’s Life Before WWII

One of the most hated men in the history of humanity survived many attempts on his life during his 12-year reign. Even though Adolf Hitler…

Pegasus Bridge the Movie – the Brits own ‘Band of Brothers’? The director tells us more

Jack Beckett

Historically, some of the best war films ever made have been British. That kind of ended when Hollywood stepped up and dominated the film and…

TANK: 100 Years of the World’s Most Important Armored Military Vehicle

From the Greek phalanx to Roman siege engines, plans by Leonardo da Vinci, and the wondrous imagination of H.G. Wells, the idea of the armored…

An Escape Tunnel is Located at this Holocaust Massacre Site

A group of archaeologists and mapmakers seems to have discovered a long-forgotten hand-dug tunnel. The 70-year-old tunnel, dug mostly by hand by 80 Jews, was…

Military Obituaries – Book Three – Review by Mark Barnes

Obituary writing is a discipline I admire very much. On most days my day job in newspapers has me copying cuts, cuttings or clippings –…

Women – The Backbone of Malta during WWII

Malta is situated in the Mediterranean Sea, 93km south of Sicily. It is an archipeligo of many little islands – the largest of which is…

Salvatore Giunta, The First Living Recipient of the Medal Of Honor Since the Vietnam War (Watch)

Joris Nieuwint

On October 25, 2007, near the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, Specialist Salvatore Giunta sought out and recovered a fellow soldier who was being dragged away…

Nikita Krushchev’s Son Still Missing in Action from World War II

Former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s son is still considered missing in action. A former chief of the Russian Defense Ministry’s Directorate for the Memorialization of…

SUNBURN AND SPITFIRES – Shuttleworth Military Pageant 2016

Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes works on his t-shirt tan as a bevy of classic aircraft put on a great show for the Military Pageant at Old Warden,…

The USS Alabama As You’ve Never Seen Her Before! (Watch)

The USS Alabama (BB-60) is a South Dakota Class Battleship, launched on April 16, 1942. It served during World War II in both the Pacific…