US Coast Guard to Send Icebreaker to Arctic for National Security
The US Coast Guard’s only long-range icebreaker, the Polar Star, would typically head to the Antarctic to help with the resupply of the McMurdo Station.…
Help Return Churchill III* to Running Order
Help Return Churchill III* to Running Order Help The Tank Museum raise £5,000 to return this British World War Two classic to running order in…
German Shipwreck said to contain Peter The Great’s Amber Room Reveals New Treasures
German shipwreck the Karlsruhe is finally being explored at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. But does it hold the remains of the legendary Amber…
100 year old ‘Flying Tiger’ Harry Moyer Still Flies Every Week
If you are a healthy, vibrant World War II veteran pilot, how would you choose to spend your 100th Birthday? Harry Moyer is just such…
Falkland Islands Declared Mine-Free After 10-year Effort, Four Decades After End Of War
Compared to the inconveniences that plague the average beachgoer – overcast skies, sand flies, or jellyfish, to name a few – the problems faced by…
President Clears Way to Present Medal of Honor to Alwyn Cashe for His Heroic Actions
President Donald Trump has signed a bipartisan bill which clears the way for US Army Sgt Alwyn Cashe to posthumously receive the nation’s highest military…
Researchers Nearly Finished With Excavation of Viking Longship in Norway
Archaeologists are excavating a rare Viking longship that has been buried for about twelve hundred years in Norway. It’s the first such excavation in Norway…
How a US Squad Saved Some of the World’s Most Valuable Horses
As World War II wound to a close, just days before Adolf Hitler would take his own life in a bunker in Berlin, the 2nd…
US Marine MIA for More Than 70 Years on Tarawa Atoll Returned to Home Town from Pacific Atoll
In three days of intense fighting, more than six and a half thousand American, Japanese and Korean soldiers were killed in the Battle of Tarawa.…
“I guess they didn’t know I was a marine:” PFC Edward Ahrens’ Last Stand
United States Marine Corps PFC Edward Ahrens holds a special place in the Corps’ long history of larger than life characters whose bravery and tenacity…
Crash Site of a Zeppelin Aircraft Found in Poland, a Century After it Happened
Over a century ago, the then young Western People’s Ukrainian Republic sent a Zeppelin Staaken aircraft on a secret mission. The plane was laden with…
Divers cleaning up the ocean net themselves an Enigma machine
Divers, working on behalf of the World Wildlife Fund, cleaning up the ocean of discarded fishing nets that pose an enormous danger to oceanic wildlife,…