Author’s Latest Work Tells Tale Of Operation Torch In WWII
Vincent O’Hara has written or co-written eleven books about military history. Most of them were published by the Naval Institute Press, who named him their…
A Small German Museum Displays A Big Collection Of Uncomfortable Art From The Nazi Era
Scary. Concerning. There are, perhaps, no two adjectives that so accurately describe Nazi art. “Museum Unter Tage” in Bochum is showing Nazi artworks to show…
Thousands March In Red Square To Commemorate Russian Sacrifice In WW2
Russia commemorated the 75th anniversary of the parade in 1941 when Soviet Union soldiers headed for the wartime front lines of WWII. Thousands of Russian…
Incredible Footage: 101st Airborne On The Eve Of D-Day, June 5, 1944
The 101st Airborne Division is a unit of infantry, paratroopers, of the United States Army trained for air assault operations. They were dropped by parachute…
Trees in the Way Are Not a Problem for the Russian Screw-Propelled ATV (Watch)
The ZIL-29061 Screw-Propelled Vehicle was an all-terrain machine designed to recover landed space capsules from remote and otherwise impassable locations. These capsules often fell…
Ironclad Devastation-Class Battleships – The Steam Powered Trailblazers For The Fleets Of The Future
In 1869 there was a revolutionary shift in the long tradition of British ship building. Up until this point battleships had always used some form…
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck: Leader Of The Greatest Guerrilla Operation Ever – Against The British
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck has been called the leader of the “greatest single guerrilla operation in history,” by Edwin Palmer Hoyt, an American writer of military…
Harrowing Stories From Iwo Jima: One Man’s Life Onboard A Landing Ship Tank In 1945
Iwo Jima is a small island in the Southeast Pacific; rocky and dominated by a large volcano on its southern peninsula. Today, there is no…
Project Acoustic Kitty – The CIA’s Top Secret Spy Cats Project
When Seal Team Six killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011, they did not do it alone. They had help from a Belgian Malinois dog named…
Sir Winston Churchill – The Greatest Briton Ever
In 2002, the BBC launched a nationwide poll asking Britons who they thought the Greatest Briton was. Among those nominated were William Shakespeare and Princess…
Second World War Pilot’s Heroic WW2 Service Recognized With Silver Star Medal
Seventy-three years after his heroic action in the fall of 1943, Army Air Corps 2nd Lt. John G. Caraberis was recognized with the posthumous awarding…
Lost ‘Nuke’ Bomb From The Cold War May Have Been Discovered Off The Coast Of British Columbia
Diver Sean Smyrichinsky thought at first he had discovered a UFO when he recently came across a strange object on the ocean bottom off British…