How Low Can They Go? – Look Here And We Will Show You
World War II Warbirds flying extremely low, to impress their mates, to escape from harm or to execute an attack. Either way, it makes for…
Sir Douglas Haig: The Best Man For a Terrible Job?
Lieutenant George: Great Scott sir, you mean, you mean the moment’s finally arrived for us to give Harry Hun a darned good British style thrashing,…
Amazing Story of How Six WW2 Airmen Survived Weeks At Sea!
After their Halifax Bomber was lost to the Atlantic Ocean, six WWII airmen found themselves desperately striving to save their own lives. The Halifax, with its…
Locating the Graves of Channel Islands WWII Resistance Heroes 70 Years on
They were arrested by Hitler’s men in the German occupied Channel Islands just a few months after their daughters were born. These men lived on…
A Pearl Harbor Witness and World War II Veteran Was Scammed Out of His Life Savings
Shameless scammers stole the life savings of an Arizona Navy veteran who witness and survived the Japanese attacks at Pearl Harbor. He also bravely fought…
When the U.S. Army Was Almost Defeated By North Korea
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…
Battle of Chaeronea – Philip II of Macedon’s Decisive Victory Over Greece
The greatest victory of Philip II of Macedonia, the battle of Chaeronea, solidified Macedonian rule in Greece. This clash between the Greek city-states alliance of…
7 Very Different Opponents Faced by Victorian British Armies
Maintaining your status as a global power is no easy thing. The British Victorian Army was one of the best equipped and most experienced in…
Hideki Tojo – Japanese WWII Prime Minister – Controversial To This Day
Hideki Tojo, a general and a politician, was the true representative of the Japanese expansionist policy in China in the first half of the 20th…
The Harlem Hellfighters – The Most Famous African-American Combat Unit of World War I
In World War I, nearly 380,000 African-Americans served in the U.S. Army. African-American soldiers primarily served in the 92nd and 93rd Divisions. While there was…
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…
Thermopylae, Bunker Hill & 2 Other Pyrrhic Victories Throughout History: Winning isn’t always worth it.
The term Pyrrhic victory can be used where someone technically “wins”, or achieves their objective, but the cost makes the victory almost not worth the…