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Man Bahadur Ghimire, a Gurkha veteran of Monte Cassino passes away aged 100

Ian Harvey

The Gurkha Welfare Trust was sad to announce the death of one of their oldest and most popular residents, Man Bahadur Ghimire. This gentle man,…

Crewless Robot Submarine That Can Decide if You Are The Target

A top-secret US Navy project to develop lethally armed autonomous submarine that is being developed with the Office of Naval Research. The underwater robots will…

Dancing WWII Veteran Goes Viral with Justin Timberlake Dance

Chuck Franzke is a 97-year-old World War II veteran who served in the Navy as a pilot. He recently became known for something other than…

Farewell to US 82nd AB James ‘Maggie’ Megellas

James ‘Maggie’ Megellas, one of the US Army’s most decorated officers, who served in the 82nd Airborne Division, died peacefully at home a few weeks…

The People’s Mosquito Fundraising campaign to Complete Fuselage Moulds

The People’s Mosquito – as work continues on returning a de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito to UK skies for the first time in a quarter of…

Hawker Hurricane For Sale – Yours for Just $1.8 Million

Hawker Hurricane Mk XII, Serial No 5481 C/N 60372 was manufactured by Canadian Car and Foundry (CCF) of Fort William (Thunder Bay) in 1942 and…

Iconic Last-of-its-Kind LCT 7074 About to Go On Display

LCT 7074 is the last remaining landing craft of its kind. It participated in the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944, along with 800 other…

Civil War Cannonball Exploded & Killed 140 Years After it Was Fired

Sam White was a dyed-in-the-wool Civil War fanatic. He was never happier than when he was searching for Civil War relics or restoring those that…

Eisenhower’s Jeep Could Make $200,000 Auction

A Jeep that was gifted to General Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower in recognition of his strategic brilliance as Supreme Allied Commander in World War II…

Yours for Just $1.3 Million 1944 Grumman Wildcat

History: The F4F  Grumman Wildcat began life on Grumman’s drawing boards as a biplane, but nevertheless became the Navy’s first monoplane fighter aircraft. The Wildcat…

Archaeologists Study Remnants of SS Concentration Camp on British Soil

Researchers are studying a Nazi concentration camp on the island of Alderney for the first time since World War II. They are discovering details about…

Pearl Harbor Veteran, Edward Bloch, Dies at 97

Pearl Harbor, the morning of December 7th, 1941, nineteen-year-old Eddie Bloch, who had enlisted in the Army Air Corps in March of that year, had…