WWII Commercial: Shave Like a Man
In 2013, a shaving brand that was born in 1919 joined the parade of products trying to define what it means to be a real man…
Blasted 3 German Balloons and 2 Fighters, Crash Landed, Got Out With Automatic Pistol Then Shot as Many Germans Before Dying
In only nine days of flying in World War I combat, just ten missions and thirty hours of time in a Spad XIII aircraft, Lieutenant…
Mutual Assured Destruction – 10 Blood Chilling Things You Need To Know
As a doctrine of national security and military strategy, Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) involves the full-scale usage of weapons of mass destruction by at least two opposing…
Scottish Pilot’s Missing Body Might Still Be In Lancaster Wreck In The Netherlands
On the night of the 12th of June in 1943, 503 aircraft from RAF bomber Command carried out a raid on the German city of…
Strange Cluster of Ruined Buildings Was to Be Hitler’s Californian Base
Set in the hills on the outskirts of Los Angeles, in a quiet valley in the Will Rogers Historic Park, is the unlikeliest of sights.…
5 Rules of Chivalry and How They Were Broken
In the Middle Ages, chivalry was more than just a name for polite behaviour. It was a set of rules meant to limit the actions…
Sell Your Kidney & Buy This WWII M-18 Hellcat Tank Destroyer Now For Only 275,000 USD
This is one of the most original M-18s in existence, it is very complete, the engine runs well, has good power, good oil pressure and…
Out of fuel: Pilot Landed on a Container Ship – The Ship Claimed the Plane Under Salvage Rights (Watch)
An unusual incident involving a container ship and an aircraft from a nearby aircraft carrier occurred in June 1983, when NATO countries were staging an…
Jack Hinson: A Civil War Sniper Hell Bent on Revenge
John W. “Jack” Hinson, better known as “Old Jack” to his family, was a prosperous farmer in Stewart County, Tennessee. A non-political man, he opposed…
After 335 Years Of War Between the Netherlands & the Tiny Isles of Scilly: No Casualties!
The south-western extremity of Great Britain juts out into the Atlantic Ocean’s warm Gulf Stream waters. Some 30 miles out to sea, to the west…
Father of Arnold Schwarzenegger, served in WWII as part of the ‘Feldgendarmerie’ (military police). He was in Russia during the bitter winter of ’41-’42 where he was wounded in action
Gustav Schwarzenegger is the father of the famous Arnold Schwarzenegger, former California Governor. Gustav was a Police Chief (Gendarmeriekommandant) in Austria, a senior military police…
Town Council Votes on Controversial WWI Monument – “Separate but equal is not considered honorable,”
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Ian HarveyThe Florence, South Carolina city council meeting was forced into a tense, emotional and deeply personal discussion over plans to move a controversial World War…