When The USA And The UK Nearly Went To War Over An Island With A Pig
Though America became independent of the British Empire in 1776, the British didn’t actually leave. Where the United States of America ended and where British-America…
Ron Jones – The Goalkeeper of Auschwitz
Ron Jones was 23 when he became a POW in North Africa in 1942. He recalls the moment of his capture very well ― he…
Did Hitler Escape From Germany? – A Look At Conspiracy Theories
It is 1945, and the end of WWII is near. Adolf Hitler is in his bunker alongside his wife, Eva Braun, on April 30th, 1945.…
Sea King Helicopters Sold as Man Caves
Sea King helicopters retired by the UK Ministry of Defense are being sold to make unique sheds and ‘man caves.’ The Sea Kings were once…
Marine Visits Grave of Relative Who Died in D-Day Invasion
Marine Corps Corporal Joshua Bettis is an outbound clerk in the distribution management office at Headquarters and Service Battalion at Henderson Hall, Virginia. His interest…
94-year-old Veteran Receives Legion D’Honneur
Tony Kemmery, 94, of Broomground, Winsley, received the Legion D’Honneur medal from the French Ambassador recently. Kemmery was an Airborne Medic with the 6th Air-landing…
Manhattan Project App Allows Users to Tour Secret WWII Lab
When efforts were made during the Second World War to construct an atomic bomb, it was shrouded in total secrecy. However, today the story is…
Three World War II Veterans Receive Their High School Diplomas
Three World War II veterans, all best friends, graduated from high school on June 13th – 71 years after being drafted to serve in the…
French Tanks Now Command the Battlefield in World of Tanks
All console platforms receive massive content enhancements in Update 3.1 June 30, 2016 – Wargaming today announced the massive content update for the free-to-play console game…
Massive Towers, Unbreakable Walls, Terrifying Siege Engines – This Was The Hundred Years War
As the sun rises over the battlefield, a column of knights gallops towards the assembled infantry. Banners flutter and arrows hurtle through the air as…
The Night Attack – Vlad the Impaler ambushes the Ottoman Sultan
Mehmet II, known as Mehmet the Conqueror, was one of the greatest military commanders of his day. The Ottoman Empire under his rule was vast,…
An Island Goes to War – The Irish at the Somme
The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 had an unusual effect in Ireland. In a place where there had already been conflict and…