Feeding & Firing the Most Monstrous Plane Ever Invented: A-10 Thunderbolt (Watch)
In the early 1970s, the A-10 Thunderbolt II was developed. This official name is derived from the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt that was used in World…
100 Years On From The Battle Of The Somme (Watch)
On July 1, 1916, at 7:30 am, the British infantry began their advance toward the trenches of the Germans. For the first few hours, eight…
Five Countries Who Fired Missiles At SR 71 Blackbird (Watch)
The United States Airforce developed an aircraft in the 1960s that was capable of flight more than three times faster than the sound coming from…
The Best Take Off Scene EVER: 18 B-25 Mitchell Bombers Take To The Sky (Watch)
This scene from the movie Catch-22 is the best “take off” scene ever! Catch-22 is a 1970 American satirical black comedy-drama war film adapted from…
The SAS: WW2 Pioneers of Guerilla Warfare Whose Exploits Have Long Remained Secret
The Special Air Service has been talked about in whispered voices for 75 years. What it accomplished in World War II has barely been recognized,…
US Detention Camps in WWII Denied Japanese-Americans Basic Rights
Governors and representatives of 10 states in the western US met on April 7, 1942, with Milton S. Eisenhower, the director of the War Relocation…
88-Years Old And Still Brave – WW2 Veteran Performs One Last Parachute Jump
George O’Brien, 88, has bravery in abundance considering that as a WWII paratrooper he disliked jumping out of airplanes. He was terrified the first, second,…
Doors Opened On Secret Chinese Nuclear Plant – It Looks Like Something Out Of A Sci-Fi Movie (Watch)
At one time the subterranean nuclear base in southwest China’s Chongqing municipality was a closely held secret. Built to produce plutonium-239, 816 Nuclear Military Plant…
WW1 German U-Boat Discovered On The Seafloor – The Crew Said A Sea Monster Attacked Them
Scottish marine Engineers were laying undersea power cables when they came across the wreck of a World War I German U-boat sunk almost 100 years…
List of Japanese-Cubans Held in World War II Internment Camps Released
A Japanese-Cuban man who was sent to a Cuban internment camp during World War II found a list of the 350 people that were interned…
The Blockade Camp: How and Why the Romans Penned Their Enemies In
One of the most important tools of the Roman army, the blockade camp, was classic Roman engineering under fire. What Was a Blockade Camp? On…
“The End of Man’s Valor”: The History of Artillery From Ancient Rome To World War Two
Around 379 BC, King Archidamus of Sparta summed up the impact of artillery on infantry. When shown a huge bow capable of flinging giant arrows…