The North African Campaign of World War Two – In Pictures!
The First Battle of El Alamein (1–27 July 1942) It was a battle that lasted 27 days and prevented Afrika Korps from reaching Cairo. After…
GI Jive – From Glenn Miller to Beethoven and Back Again, These Songs Were The Soundtrack to World War Two! With Videos!
Since the days of the ram’s horn, music has been a part of war. During WWII, the Office of War Information urged musicians to create…
Top 5 Guns… With Weird Extra Features From a Bottle Opener to an Anti-Aircraft Sight! Check out the Video!
Some firearms are very bizarre, and some are relatively conventional yet have the odd feature or two built in. In this episode TFBTV takes a…
Haunting Pics Of A Rare Tu-128 – The Largest & Heaviest Fighter Ever In Service
The Tupolev Tu-28, a Soviet long-range interceptor from the 1960s, had the NATO reporting name Fiddler. At the time, it was the largest and heaviest…
Returning to WW2 Battle of Guadalcanal: An Australian Story
One of the only remaining Australian World War II veterans who participated in the Solomon Islands campaign returned to mark the anniversary of the Battle…
The Beautiful American Ship USS Constitution Was Built In 1797 And Is Still Afloat Today
“Old Ironsides”, the USS Constitution, has been through it all and lived to tell about it – as her nickname suggests. Built of a study oak,…
The Imperial Japanese Air Forces Failed in World War 2 (Watch)
Two Raids On Pearl Harbor Everyone knows about the first bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Less well known, however, was the second attack. And…
Duane Zemper, USAAF Aerial Photographer Of World War II
Almost 75 years after he was discharged, Duane Zemper, 96 – accompanied by his son, Eric – is looking forward to touring the Pentagon along…
British Bomber to be Recovered from Dutch Lake
The Dutch Ministry of Defense has hired a salvage company to recover the wreckage of a WWII bomber found in IJsselmeer Lake off the coast…
Trinity Site, Where the First Atomic Bomb Was Detonated – A Place that Changed the World
In 1945 the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki saw firsthand the destructive powers of the nuclear bomb. The atomic bomb decimated both cities and…
WWII Veterans Fire Weapons from the War for Reunion
The Associated Gun Clubs of Baltimore invited four WWII veterans and their families to come to a gun range in Marriottsville to fire WWII-era weapons.…
History Buffs Love Miniature War Games
The Chicago-area chapter of the Historical Miniatures Gaming Society hosts the Little Wars convention. In these games, there are no screens and no computer-generated bloodshed.…