Breathtaking Color Footage of Erwin Rommel And Afrika Korps (watch)
Having gained a solid reputation as a military genius of the highest order, Rommel was promoted to Lieutenant General and placed in command of the…
An Unassuming Double Agent In WW2
British citizens sympathetic to the Nazi cause and willing to pass on intelligence during World War II never suspected that Jack King wasn’t a Gestapo…
The German WW2 Sturmgewehr Assault Rifle (Watch)
After several years of rejecting the idea of a new automatic or semi-automatic weapon, Hitler asked his top commanders on the Eastern Front what they…
Tank Chats: The British Mark V Tank (Watch)
The Allies were the first to build tanks, and so the Germans had to come up with methods to stop them. At first, they widened…
Pentagon Reviewing Service Medal Awards For Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans
Senior service officials in the Pentagon have been reviewing numerous files for months to ensure veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are recognized and awarded the…
Heritage Protection For Site Of WWI Munitions Factory Where Blast Killed 35 Women
The site of a First World War munitions factory at Leeds in England now has heritage protection. The qualification not only recognizes and memorializes the…
Tough But With a Heart of Gold – The Woman Who Escaped The Nazis
Olga Korec had nerves of steel to remove a white armband adorned with the Star of David and ignore the soldier calling her as she…
Memorial Held To Commemorate Bagpiper Awarded VC In First World War
The extraordinary bravery of a piper, 20-year-old James Cleland Richardson, who was awarded a Victoria Cross, was commemorated recently with a special memorial stone laid in…
Buying the myth: Russian Film Sticks With The Fiction
Historians are saying that a Russian film portraying the defense of Moscow during the Second World War is false. The new movie, 28 Men, borrows…
Light Tank Mark II A – Two-Man Light Tank of the Early Thirties
The first British light tank, the Mark I, evolved from the Carden-Loyd Carrier. The Mark II was produced in larger numbers and issued for service.…
Strategize and Strike with Steven Seagal in World of Warships
Enlist your very own in-game action hero While Steven Seagal may have had a complicated relationship with warships in the past, he’s learned a thing…
6 Fast Facts – A Controversial Military Reformer In The Lead-Up To WW1
Sir Garnet Joseph Wolseley was one of the most important military thinkers in the Victorian British army. Rising to a position of prominence in the…