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When The Allies Attacked Oran And Were Annihilated By Vichy French Soldiers

After the fall of France during WWII, a puppet regime was established, with its administrative center in the town of Vichy, declaring itself The Vichy…

Watch: Lockheed AC-130U Gunship Live Firing!

The Lockheed AC-130 gunship is a heavily armed ground attack aircraft currently in service with the United States Air Force. It is a variation of…

5 Epic retreats in Military History

Andrew Knighton

Can a retreat ever be considered a success? Most are a sign of failure, as armies pull back from the objectives they seek to take…

Watch This Eurofighter Typhoon And Spitfire Fly Together, From The Ground & From Tyfoon Cockpit!

See Britain’s Fighters – The Typhoon And The Spitfire Flying Together – Watch From The Ground And From The Typhoon’s Cockpit! Remember the aircraft that…

Vietnam Green Beret Had 37 Separate Bullet, Bayonet, & Shrapnel Wounds & Still He Carried On Fighting

Master Sergeant Raul “Roy” Perez Benavidez was shot several times, suffered two grenade blasts, and got bayonetted while saving the lives of eight men. Despite…

1904-5 The Russo-Japanese War: Japan Shatters Russia’s Navy and Global Perceptions

While Japan is today known as a leading nation in terms of technology, this was not the case in the late 19th and early 20th…

Damn the Torpedoes- Full Speed Ahead

The Battle of Mobile Bay was a naval battle of the American Civil War, which held great strategic importance in the summer of 1864. It was…

With a Modified Aircraft Machinegun, Corporal Tony Stein Fired His Way Across Iwo Jima and Earned the Medal of Honor

Jeff Edwards

The ability to improvise, adapt, and overcome has long been a core ethos of the United States Marine.  While one could find many examples from…

1898: Spanish at Guam Thought the Attacking USS Charleston Fired Salute Shots & Asked For Gunpowder To Return the Gesture

Jinny McCormick

Manning a remote island fort, seemingly without any imminent danger on the horizon, must have made for a fairly comfortable post. That was the situation on…

10 Biggest Nuclear Explosions

Most of us have seen footage or photographs of the explosions at Nagasaki and Hiroshima: the mushroom cloud, the radius, the devastation. Those, however, were…

War In The Air – Gun Camera Footage Of B-17s Under Attack By Luftwaffe Fighters

Joris Nieuwint
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One of the most crucial conflicts of the Second World War was between the air forces of Britain and Germany. The Royal Air Force (RAF)…

Rommel’s Last Battle in North-Africa – Costly Failure At Medenine

Jack Beckett

The hot Tunisian sun beat down on the steel of tanks and armoured personnel carriers, planes strafed the artillery positions and the tracks of tanks…