10 Facts About the Battle of Ia Drang (We Were Soldiers)
In 1954, the French decided to draw their struggles in what was once called French Indochina to a close. From then until the end of…
Saint Nazaire Raid: Massive Intel, Courage, Sacrifice and Big Explosions
A little after 1:20 AM on March 28th, 1942, searchlights on both sides of the Loire Estuary flooded the waterway to reveal the convoy. Twelve…
Pacific Plane Wrecks, Amazing pictures of Abandoned WWII planes
The Pacific Islands are still littered with plane wrecks from the fighting there. Planes that crash landed on remote locations or sunken in the lagoons…
How Climate Change Helped the Swedes March Across A Frozen Sea And Defeat The Danes
It all started in 1655 during the Second Northern War. Sweden was fighting against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Russia, Brandenburg-Prussia, the Habsburg Monarchy, Denmark-Norway, and sometimes,…
Filipino Veterans Deserve Recognition and Benefits
Before the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a military order that called the organized military forces of the Philippines…
Charge Of The Light Brigade: Britain’s most famous Military Disaster
Storm’d at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred…
Operation Drumbeat – U-Boat Happy Days On The USA East Coast
The United States of America took a huge blow at Pearl Harbor in 1941, which prompted them join the war alongside the British. Before that…
Top 10 Facts About SS-Standartenführer Joachim Peiper
Many men, soldiers, and supporters of Hitler and his politics, helped Germany do the damage it did during World War II. One of those men…
This Diminutive Welshman VC Captured 100 Germans and 500 yards of German Trenches
If the history of war proves one thing it is that the physical stature of a man has little to do with the gallantry they…
Two Jet Fighters Sent Up to Shoot Down a WWII Warbird in 1956 – Blasted 208 Rockets at it, it Survived
In August 1956, a drone went rogue over Southern California, threatening cities, including Los Angeles. In its aftermath, over 1,000 acres were destroyed, forests and…
THE MS WILHELM GUSTLOFF – Review by Mark Barnes
On 30th January 1945 the liner MS Wilhelm Gustloff was making her way from Gotenhafen packed with thousands of Nazi officials, refugees and armed forces…
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,…