100 years on – Looking Back at the Importance of the Battle of Jutland
Lasting roughly 36 hours on May 31st 1916, the Battle of Jutland changed the course of the First World War. It was the only major…
B-29 Doc Gets Certified for Airworthiness!
The B-29 bomber known as Doc may be flying again before the summer is over. On May 20th, the nonprofit group Doc’s Friends announced that…
When History Repeats – The Persian Thermopylae
As they say, history tends to repeat itself. In the winter of 330, the Battle of the Persian Gates was the last stand for Achaemenid…
7 Facts About The Grand Old Duke of York: A British Military Reformer
The grand old Duke of York He had ten thousand men He marched them up to the top of the hill And he marched them…
The Shetland Bus – Escape, Survival & Adventure To Keep Norwegian Resistance In The Fight
Europe during the Second World War was a bleak place; German forces invaded Norway on the 9th of April, 1940, and as the country was…
Solid as a Rock: Holding Gibraltar Against All The Odds
Gibraltar is a small place, but it is full of history. Its total area is only 2.6 square miles, and this tiny landscape is dominated by…
Scandal of the Century – New Book Claims USA Knew Of Pearl Harbor Plans For Months
Few words are more disheartening to Americans than Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “day of infamy,” and few photos more provocative than the image of the burning…
These Jews Took Up Arms Against Nazi Germany & Fought Back Without Hope
Life in a Ghetto was the unfortunate fate of many Jewish citizens during the Nazi Party’s reign over Germany and its many occupied territories. Crammed…
Why were the Atomic Bombs dropped on Japan?
With President Obama’s recent visit to Hiroshima, the question is raised again: why did the U.S. drop the atomic bomb? Was it necessary to convince…
New Holocaust Memorial in Amsterdam
After batting the location of a proposed Holocaust Memorial around for the past two years, the authorities in Amsterdam have finally put a peg in the…
Remains of TBM-1C Avenger Torpedo Bomber found near Palau
An American aircraft, a TBM-1C Avenger, missing since July 1944 was recently located in the waters surrounding the Pacific Island nation of Palau by Project…
“My heart refused such sinister grandeurs” – the fall of the last Napoleon
It was a turbulent time in Europe. The year was 1870, and the Kingdom of Prussia held the reins of power. Prussia’s king, Wilhelm, was…