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Death Of D-Day Veteran Just One Week After Being Awarded France’s Highest Honor

Only one week after receiving France’s Legion d’Honneur medal a D-Day veteran has died in Bradford, England after a sudden visit to the hospital. Skipton…

Anonymous Author Pieces Together the Secret Story Of The SAS In WW2 With New Book

The story of Edwin Weaver and other Special Air Service and Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) members killed in action from 1941 to 1947 has…

Decorated WWII Veteran Pilot Gets One Last Flight In His Plane

Frank Royal is a 101-year-old veteran of World War II. He was born in Colorado during World War I. He was in college, studying to…

WW2 Veteran Owes His Life To The Atomic Bomb Which Ended The War

If not for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945, Gordon Highlander Alistair Urquhart wouldn’t have lived to 97. Urquhart died recently from natural…

100 years on – Looking Back at the Importance of the Battle of Jutland

Ian Harvey

Lasting roughly 36 hours on May 31st 1916, the Battle of Jutland changed the course of the First World War. It was the only major…

WWI Battle of Verdun: The Battle That Was Never “Won”

Ian Harvey

The president of France, Francois Holland, joined German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the re-opening ceremony of the recently renovated museum that stands on the site…

These 44 Pictures From The Atlantic Wall Show What The Allies Were Up Against On D-Day

Normandy

In June 1944, the Western-Allies had a tough test to pass. They had to breach the formidable Atlantic Wall, defended by the mighty German army.…

Japanese Fire Balloons and the Tragic Tale of the Last WWII Casualties on US Soil

The Revolutionary and the Civil War tore North America apart, but the World Wars and most subsequent conflicts have been largely fought beyond its borders –…

FUSAG: Patton’s D-Day Army That Didn’t Exist

An army can help win a war without even existing. Strange as that may seem, this is exactly what happened in the case of the First United…

Re-enactment Of A Huge WW2 Offensive – Those Russians Do It In Style

The Petsamo-Kirkenes Offensive was referred to as the “Tenth Shock,” one of the most important military operations lead by Red Army in 1944. The term “Stalin’s…

Awesome – Top 10 Facts – World War II (Watch)

World War II lasted from September 1st, 1939 until September 2nd, 1945 when Japan formally signed surrender documents. This was a war on a whole new…

A Tribute To Hal Moore – We Were Soldiers (Watch)

Born on 13 February 1922, Harold Gregory “Hal” Moore, Jr. retired from the US Armed Forces as an Army Lieutenant General. He received the Distinguished…