Dame Vera Lynn: Forces Sweet Heart Still smiling at 102
Dame Vera Lynn: A lot of British and American stars made a point of heading overseas to entertain the troops during the Second World War,…
PBY Wreck Found in Irish lake
PBY Catalina: Most of the important relics and artifacts from World War II have long since been refurbished, restored and placed in history museums to…
Hand-Sized Drone Latest In Warfare Technology
Drone: Countries around the globe are ceaseless pursuers of the latest and greatest warfare technologies. It was once a case of “bigger is better” —…
WW2 Bomb Suddenly Explodes in German Field Leaving Giant Crater
WW2 Bomb: Germany still suffers echoes of its dark Nazi past 80 years ago, when Adolf Hitler led the country to war and created a…
Marshall Islands: Dome Covering Nuclear Waste Starting to Crack
Marshall Islands – Science fiction writers have made countless plot lines out of an earth destroyed by mankind’s greed and lack of foresight. Many books,…
Supreme Court rules War Memorial Can Stand – It Was To Be Pulled Down
Supreme Court: Religious symbols, or anything remotely resembling religious symbols, are under fire these days, viewed by secular societies as an impingement on those who…
WW2 Submarine Floats In Flood
The United States has had huge problems with the fallout from an unusually wet spring; farmers’ fields are soggy and crops can’t be harvested, and…
D-Day Vet Reunites With Lost French Love After 75 Years
D-Day story “The course of true love never did run smooth.” William Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” June 6th 2019 was a hugely important day…
Eisenhower, When I Met The Man Behind D-Day, No One Believed Me
In April 1944, twenty-three-year-old private Walter J. Thorpe of Abilene, Kansas set out on an unlikely mission. He aspired to meet Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.…
C-47 The Plane & The Invention That Helped D-Day Happen
The largest fleet of flying Douglas DC-3/ C-47/ Dakotas ever seen since the 1950s is now steadily building up in Duxford, Cambridge, UK. In the…
Bartini-Beriev VVA-14: The Vertical Take-Off Amphibious Aircraft
Bartini-Beriev was part of the Cold War arms race, the opposing states supported the implementation of incredible and ambitious design ideas. Combating threats from the…
Sorry to Inform You, But Not All C-47s Can Fly to Normandy
The Dakota Hunter tell us why…. We tried hard but the budget is too tight for the work still to be done, ha. Over the…