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US Army to Replace the M4 & SAW With NGSW System Within 2 Years

Ian Harvey

The US Army is looking at the NGSW system to replace both the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) and the M16/M4/carbine used by close combat…

B-52 Sends Distress Signal Over Britain

Ian Harvey

A US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bomber sent an emergency radio message while flying over Gloucestershire in the UK on September 25, 2020. The bomber…

RNLI Rescues a Catalina Flying-Boat in Loch Ness

Ian Harvey

The crews attached to the RNLI Station at Loch Ness are no strangers to call-outs for strange objects, but none were as odd as the…

Nuclear Weapons Will be Illegal in 90 Days, but will Victims of Pacific Tests Ever Get Justice?

Ian Harvey

In 90 days, seventy-five years after the world first witnessed the devastation caused by nuclear weapons, they will be illegal, according to international law. From…

Incredible Heroic Story of Grit & Determination of the 82nd AB

The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment was alerted at 2200 hours on 17 December 1944 following the return of Colonel Reuben Tucker., Regiment’s Commander, from the…

41 Year Old Medal of Honor Recipient was Laid to Rest at Arlington

Ian Harvey

Medal of Honor recipient and former Army Staff Sgt. Ronald Shurer passed away in May 2020 at the age of 41. He was laid to…

Bruce Crompton Asks you to “Put your Headphones on for History”

A new podcast, Amazing War Stories with Bruce Crompton, aims to save museums by telling incredible, real accounts of heroism inspired by artefacts and exhibits…

Germany Pledges Over €550 Million to Holocaust Survivors

Ian Harvey

An organization that negotiates for compensation from the German Government has announced that the Government will provide €564 million ($662 million) to aid Holocaust survivors…

Hanks and Spielberg ‘Masters of the Air’ to Start Filming

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Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, who teamed up to bring the much-acclaimed Band of Brothers to life in 2001, are teaming up again to bring…

Ridley Scott and Joaquin Phoenix Team Up for New Napoleon Epic Movie

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Was there ever a General more suited to the epic Hollywood treatment than Napoleon Bonaparte, the Corsican master strategist who won the crown of France…

Facebook and the UK Culture Recovery Fund help keep the doors at Bletchley Park open

Ian Harvey

During World War II, Alan Turing and his code-breaking team at Bletchley Park cracked the Nazi’s Enigma machine and enabled the Allies to read encoded…

“Big Lizzie” met 2 Russian Blackjacks Last Week off the Coast of Scotland

British warship HMS Queen Elizabeth – also known as “Big Lizzie” – docked at Portsmouth last week, following a close shave with Russian jets. Where…