Marine Visits Grave of Relative Who Died in D-Day Invasion
Marine Corps Corporal Joshua Bettis is an outbound clerk in the distribution management office at Headquarters and Service Battalion at Henderson Hall, Virginia. His interest…
94-year-old Veteran Receives Legion D’Honneur
Tony Kemmery, 94, of Broomground, Winsley, received the Legion D’Honneur medal from the French Ambassador recently. Kemmery was an Airborne Medic with the 6th Air-landing…
Manhattan Project App Allows Users to Tour Secret WWII Lab
When efforts were made during the Second World War to construct an atomic bomb, it was shrouded in total secrecy. However, today the story is…
Three World War II Veterans Receive Their High School Diplomas
Three World War II veterans, all best friends, graduated from high school on June 13th – 71 years after being drafted to serve in the…
French Tanks Now Command the Battlefield in World of Tanks
All console platforms receive massive content enhancements in Update 3.1 June 30, 2016 – Wargaming today announced the massive content update for the free-to-play console game…
Massive Towers, Unbreakable Walls, Terrifying Siege Engines – This Was The Hundred Years War
As the sun rises over the battlefield, a column of knights gallops towards the assembled infantry. Banners flutter and arrows hurtle through the air as…
War On Drugs, Fighting the Flying Pirates of the Caribbean
In this DAKOTA HUNTER Blog you will find a series of amazing photos of Caribbean Drugs Runner aircraft that were left abandoned, crashed, seized or…
The Night Attack – Vlad the Impaler ambushes the Ottoman Sultan
Mehmet II, known as Mehmet the Conqueror, was one of the greatest military commanders of his day. The Ottoman Empire under his rule was vast,…
An Island Goes to War – The Irish at the Somme
The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 had an unusual effect in Ireland. In a place where there had already been conflict and…
The Real Fury: Patton’s Disastrous Hammelburg Raid to Free His Son-in-Law
In February 1943, the U.S. Army had its first major engagement with the forces of Nazi Germany, ending with their disastrous defeat at Kasserine Pass…
Beutepanzer, How Nazi Germany Relied on Captured Military Vehicles To Continue The Fight
The Germans during WWII were known for their engineering craftsmanship, but a less known fact is that they were very resourceful in times of need,…
Pointe Du Hoc From Above! Where The Americans Captured The High Ground on D-Day (Watch)
Pointe du Hoc is on the coast of Normandy (Northern France) and overlooks the English Channel. The German army had control of this crucial area…