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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

Ian Harvey

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

Ian Harvey

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…

Proposed “D-Day Land” Attraction in Normandy Opposed by Veterans But Loved by Others

Are French businessmen planning to “Disneyfy” the D-Day landings? That’s the charge being levelled at a group of creatives wanting to open a multi-million dollar…

UH-1H Huey MEDEVAC for Sale!

1966 UH-1H Huey in restored condition, S/N 66-1080. This helicopter is #2 of 3 MEDEVAC helicopters that I’m restoring, some of the pics are of…

Landmine Clearing with Lasers, Rats and Bees

Ian Harvey

The 80 million landmines and other unexploded ordnance left behind after armed conflicts are the scourge of many countries that have emerged from such strife.…

Can We Really Believe That the Days of Jet Fighter Pilots are Numbered?

Ian Harvey

Recently, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) matched an Artificial Intelligence program against an F-16 pilot with the codename “Banger,” in a series of…

Over 100 Napoleonic War Graves Found in Jersey

Ian Harvey

Rector Peter Dyson of St Saviour’s Church in Jersey has been astounded to find over 100 graves of veterans of the Napoleonic Wars in the…