Pressure falls on France to pardon shot “coward” soldiers in WWI
Around 600 to 650 which served France during the World War I were executed by own firing squad for “cowardice”. During the WWI Centenary next…
German Publisher Plans to Halt ‘Der Landser’
Bauer Media Group, a German magazine publisher of Life & Style, In Touch, and other popular publications, has announced its plans to discontinue the publication…
World War II Pilot Pays Tribute to Fallen Comrades in Battle of Britain Anniversary
Joy Lofthouse was among the many World War II Veterans who commemorated the Battle of Britain and remembered friends and comrades lost during the battle.…
WWII Vet’s Smoking Habit Nearly Gets Him and Wife Kicked Out of Home
Andy Nowicki and his wife, both 90 years old, have called their apartment in Newington, Connecticut their home. However, they were informed by their landlord…
Vo Nguyen Giap, Vietnam’s fabled General dies at 102
Photo story: General Vo Nguyen Giap smiles with Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh, during First Indochina War in 1950 (left photo). With soldiers in 1954…
Simply Ingenious! German Spy Cams and Bugs During the Cold War
The CIA of the United States, the MI6 of the United Kingdom and the KGB of the Soviet Union — home to the world’s greatest…
WWII Vet Publishes His Second World War Memoirs
Gordon Huntington was in his 20s when World War II broke out. He worked as a signalman for the British Navy when he was captured…
History of Tanks: The German Maus
In late 1944 the Germans completed the first Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus the heaviest fully enclosed armored fighting vehicle ever to see the light of day. Just…
A Bullet-Riddled Shattered Stump is witness to the Violent Intensity of the Civil War
Photo story: The shattered, bullet-riddled oak stump is witness to the American bloody civil war (Left). A burial party of civil war soldiers fallen in…
Re-enactors Depict World War II, Ammo Demo in DeRidder
Wings and Wheels Fly-In/Cruise-In visitors will be treated to a ‘time travel’ exactly in the middle of World War II! A number of groups from…
Spies who weren’t even humans- The most highly trained ones by CIA
Photo story: The I.Q. Zoo’s chicken tick-tack-toe booth, Breland (with a trained otter) founder of I.Q. Zoo, a dolphin in training to carry Navy equipment…