Second World War C-47 Transport Plane Arrives At Flying Tigers Heritage Park
A venerable C-47, the transport workhorse airplane during the Second World War that was seemingly used everywhere, is going on permanent display at the Flying…
Rare PT Boat Is On The move From New Orleans, Scheduled For Launch In 2017
The launch of the PT-305, which will take passengers at $350 a pop, is set for March 25, 2017. The motor torpedo boat, nicknamed U.S.S.…
Family’s 100-Year-Old Mystery Solved As Lost First World War Submarine Wreck Is Found
British divers discovered the British submarine E5’s intact hull recently off the Netherland coast following an agreement that temporarily suspended the shipping lane under which…
The United Kingdom’s Most Extraordinary Female World War Two Pilot
Very few pilots can brag that they flew an unknown airplane without training, using only a preflight checklist. Lettice Curtis, who died in 2014 aged…
Shooting In Slow Motion – The Invention That Gave The Germans The Advantage In The Air In WW1
Imagine the dilemma faced by a First World War fighter pilot in 1914 who risked damaging or shooting his airplane’s propeller off with rapid-firing machine…
The Slow Disappearance Of Second World War Wrecks At The Hands Of Illegal Salvagers
Dutch defense minister Jeanine Hennis has told Members of the Dutch Parliament in a written briefing that three of the nation’s warships sunk in the…
Nancy Wake: Special Ops Agent And The Gestapo’s Most Wanted
A British Special Ops agent during World War II, Nancy Wake was a wartime beauty, and not a person to be messed with. She was…
10 Facts – Napoleon’s Invasion of Spain
Invading an Ally Before France invaded Spain in October 1807, the two countries were allies. However, Spain was not the reliable ally Napoleon wished for.…
Mary Edwards Walker – The Only Woman Ever To Receive The Medal Of Honor
Early life Mary Edwards Walker was born into a society where strict gender roles controlled the lives of women. However, thanks to the liberal outlook…
9 Ways That Napoleon’s Blockade of Britain Undermined His Own Empire
In 1806, Napoleon Bonaparte launched a blockade of Great Britain. Merchants from the French Empire and its dependencies were no longer allowed to trade with…
Gauls Vs Romans: Two Very Different Ways Of War
When Julius Caesar invaded Gaul in the 1st century BC, two very different schools of war clashed. In some ways, the Gauls and the Romans…
360° Close-Up Tour Of Enormous LEGO Easter Rising Diorama
On Easter Sunday 1916, the Irish rose up to fight for their independence from Britain. Newspapers across the world gave the Easter Rising greater prominence…