Going At Mach 3+, The Amazing 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 WWII Pilot Who Flew His P-51 Through the Arches of Eiffel Tower
Since our childhood, stories of fighter pilots being awesome have always been the subject of our fantasies. But even the most valiant fighter pilots of…
Real Life Air America: The CIA’s Covert Airline Used for Everything, including Drug Smuggling
The United States has lots of airlines: American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines, etc. One airline most people have not heard of is Air…
Stalin’s Son Yakov Dzhugashvili Captured By The Germans. He ‘Died’ In A Pow Camp
Everyone knows Joseph Stalin, but most aren’t familiar with his familial life, particularly his eldest son, Yakov. The tumultuous relationship between father and son created…
WANT TO RIDE A TIGER? WIN A RIDE IN TIGER 131 AT TANKFEST 25-26 JUNE!
The Tank Museum are offering people the chance to ride in Tiger 131 at this year’s Tankfest event, 25-26 June. The Tiger 131, a formidable…
Prisoner on Infamous Death Railway in WWII Celebrates 100th Birthday
Frank Kerridge, a former infantryman in the British Army during World War II, turned 100 on March 29th. This centenarian was captured during the war…
Australia’s Buried and Then Forgotten Soldiers
The Australian governments from the 1920s broke a promise that led to many ex-soldiers being buried without any recognition at all. As another Anzac Day…
‘Sworn allegiance to duty’ – Jefferson City, Mo., Marine first Cole County resident killed in Vietnam War
Growing up on the east side of the town, Jefferson City, Mo., resident Mark Schreiber recalls the days when he and Dale Clark, a close…
The Manhattan Project’s Hanford Site Yields Difficult Questions
A family took a road trip to the Pacific Northwest. It was a father, mother and six-year-old daughter that traveled to Seattle and the Canadian…
TE LAWRENCE IN WAR AND PEACE – Review by Mark Barnes
If you drive towards the Armour Centre at Bovington from the direction of Dorchester you will pass Clouds Hill, the last home of the singularly…
The Forgotten Campaign: The WWII Aleutian Islands Campaign
WWII had some very distinct theaters of war. When people think of the war in the Pacific thoughts, go to the sprawling jungles of Guadalcanal…
What You Need To Know About The WWII Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riots
In 1943, when the United States was involved in World War II the country was rocked on the home front. Thousands of Mexicans had migrated…