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Tank Museum’s New Exhibition Opens With Live Online Tour

The Tank Museum in Dorset is opening its new World War Two exhibition with a live, online tour. Anyone can tune in on YouTube on…

A Man Once Turned In a Soviet TANK to a Czech Weapons Amnesty Program

Pink T-34-85 parked behind a chain link fence + SD-100 parked between two buildings

When police in the Czech Republic used a tank in their advertisement to promote weapons amnesty, they didn’t realize someone would actually take it seriously.…

False Alarm In German Forest As Adult Toy Mistaken For Explosive

Ian Harvey
A forest overgrows disused WWII-era infrastructure near Wuerzburg, Germany.

Cleaning up after a war has occupied many governments and volunteer organizations across the world, from mine clearance in Vietnam to European bomb disposal squads.…

US Army’s Night Vision Technology Makes Life Look Like a Video Game

Ian Harvey
night vision

The U.S. Army’s Lancer Brigade (Second Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division) released footage of their new Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binoculars (ENVG-B). The goggles…

Sikorsky Demonstrates Autonomous Flight Technology for US Army

Ian Harvey

The U.S. Army teamed up with Sikorsky to successfully demonstrate an S-70 Black Hawk helicopter with autonomous flight technology. The demonstration opens up the possibility…

Washington DC Opens A National Memorial For The First World War

Ian Harvey
Army veteran Andrew Forte watches the opening ceremonies on a monitor. Frank "Wood" Buckles, the last American military World War I veteran to die, appears on the monitor.

Incredible as it may seem, up until now the 4.7 million American service personnel who served in World War One never had their own dedicated…

Charles Coolidge, Oldest Medal Of Honor Recipient, Passes Away At Age 99

Charles Coolidge

The U.S. has lost its oldest Medal of Honor recipient. Charles Coolidge has passed away at the age of 99. He died April 6, 2021,…

Clayton Schenkelberg, Oldest Survivor of Pearl Harbor, Passes Away At 103

Clayton Schenkelberg speaks to CBS 8 San Diego in 2015

Clayton Schenkelberg, thought to be the oldest living survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor, passed away at the age of 103 on April 14,…

Woody Harrelson to Star as Doctor Who Saved the Lives of Jews in WWII

Ian Harvey
split image of Woody Harrelson and Felix Kersten

Woody Harrelson, the three-time Oscar nominee will star in the role of Felix Kersten in a film version of Joseph Kessel’s novel The Man With…

Disappeared Nuns, Victims of the Red Army, Discovered in Cemetery

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Religious objects helped identify the remains

As the Wehrmacht retreated in the face of the Soviet Red Army in Poland in 1944, the Polish population might have been forgiven for believing…

Aging Nuclear Missiles Are Outlasting Their Ability to be Maintained

Ian Harvey

Fifty years ago, hundreds of now aging nuclear missiles were placed in their underground silos. These Minuteman III ICBMs were expected to last only ten…

US Army Awards Contract to Barrett for New Sniper Rifle

Ian Harvey

The US Army has awarded a contract worth $50 million to Barrett Firearms Manufacturing Inc. The company will provide new rifles for snipers. Barrett will…