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Maurice Mounsdon, One of Last Members of ‘The Few’, dies aged 101

Ian Harvey

One of the last four remaining Battle of Britain pilots has died at age 101. Maurice Mounsdon, a Flight Lieutenant in August 1940, survived severe…

Rock Star Jon Bon Jovi Builds 77 Homes For Homeless Veterans

Ian Harvey

Big-hearted Bon Jovi frontman Jon Bon Jovi has put his heart on his sleeve and his hand in his pocket to help homeless Washington war…

91-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Testifies Against Nazi Camp Guard

Ian Harvey

Holocaust survivor Abraham Korisky was brought to Stutthof Camp from Lithuania in 1944 when he was just a boy of sixteen, where the man facing…

German Flagship SMS Scharnhorst Found off Falkland Islands

Ian Harvey

What lies beneath the dark waters and rolling waves of the Falkland Islands are mysterious, awe inspiring, and to many of us, a little frightening.…

German Chancellor Merkel Tours Auschwitz With ‘Sense Of Shame’

Ian Harvey

Angela Merkel visited the Auschwitz concentration camp. It was her first visit to the site as the German Chancellor and the first visit by any…

The US Army Is Developing a Gun With a 1,000 Mile Range

Ian Harvey

The US Army is developing a cannon that has a range of over 1,000 miles. They are also working on hypersonic weapons. Together, the new…

Abandoned Nuclear Missile Complex in Arizona For Sale $400,000

Ian Harvey

Have you thought about buying a missile complex, I mean a new home, but looked at the row upon row of little boxes that constitute…

Gender Confusion Over Hero Dog That Helped Take Down ISIS Leader

Ian Harvey

The dog who was injured during the raid that killed the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was honored in a ceremony at the White…

The New ‘Monuments Men’ Soldiers Will Protect Treasures in Combat Zones

Ian Harvey

The US Military is in the process of reincarnating the famous World War II expert brigade, dubbed The Monuments Men, in the 2014 movie of…

Pentagon Report Says Rise of Machine Super Soldiers is Just Decades Away

Ian Harvey

The popular myth of  cyborg soldiers, a warfighter enhanced with augmented tech providing bionic eyesight and superhuman battlefield performance, may soon be a reality. According…

‘Band of Brothers’ Actors Who Later Became Big-Time Stars

Still from 'Band of Brothers'

Band of Brothers was a television landmark and it featured a star-studded cast of actors. Made in the days before movie quality, writer-led drama really…

Poland’s WW2 $5bn of Gold Returned From London in Top-Secret Mission

Ian Harvey

Poland was given back approximately 100 tons of gold from three nations — the U.K., Canada and America — that had been holding the bars…