Rommel’s Last Battle in North-Africa – Costly Failure At Medenine
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…
Cornfield “Bomber” – The F-106 Delta Dart that Landed Itself After Pilot Ejected
The Convair F-106 Delta Dart is a delta wing interceptor aircraft, not a medium range bomber. Yet when a unique event involving this airplane occurred…
Screaming at Senior Officers “to hell with this, who’ll come with me” Kiwi Jack Hinton Earned the Victoria Cross in Greece
It has often been mused that the worst soldiers in the garrison make the best soldiers on the battlefield. It would seem that while some…
General “The Auk” Auchinleck Squared Off With The Desert Fox In North Africa Before Being Fired by Churchill
The dismissal of officers in World War 2 was quite a common practice for every army that fought in the war. Whether or not these…
The Versailles Peace Treaty – Ending The Great War In 1918
The treaty of Versailles was one of several peace treaties which signaled the end of the devastating years of World War I. It sealed the end…
Stille Hilfe – The Organisation to Help Nazi War Criminals
In the aftermath of World War Two, most of the world wanted to punish those who had upheld the Nazi regime. The shocking revelation that…
Six Key Facts – The Terrible Conflict That Was The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (1 November 1955 – 30 April 1975) was also known as the Second Indochina War. In Vietnam, it was called Kháng chiến…
Black Cat 2-1: Vietnam War Memoir Gives Voice To Those Who Served With Honor
In the Vietnam War, 2,197 helicopter pilots and 2,717 crew members were killed. Bob Ford was a Huey aircraft commander who flew over one thousand…
The Battle of the Coral Sea in World War Two – Making Military History In the Pacific
From the 4th to 8th May 1942, the Japanese and American fleets in the Pacific made history. For the first time ever, a naval battle…
Wounded, He Sacrificed Himself to Clear the way for his Platoon – James Stokes, VC
Private James Stokes’ thirtieth birthday was February 6th, 1945. On the 1st of March, less than one month later, he came to the end of…
In These Battles, Fighting Spirit Overcame The Odds To Gain Victory
Battles can be lost for a hundred different reasons. Poor numbers, unwise strategy, inferior weapons, the list goes on. But just occasionally, a fighting force…
German Special Forces: The Brandenburg Regiment
The Brandenburg Regiment, part of Germany’s Nazi special forces, was created by Captain Theodor von Hippel. Hippel was a military man, who had served in…