After 30 Years, Plane Crash Killing 248 101st Airborne Division Soldiers Commemorated
On December 12, 1985, 248 US Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division died in an airplane crash. They were on their way home from a…
Did You Know The Famous WWII Spitfire Was Crowd-Funded?
The Spitfire is an iconic emblem of World War II with its distinctive silhouette and the unmistakable growl from its Merlin engine, but what is…
Should Hungary Make Reparations to Holocaust Survivors?
Fourteen survivors of the Holocaust sued the Hungarian government and its national train company, MAV, last month. The charge was that they had cooperated with…
Yankee Air Museum Finds New Home In Old WWII Bomber Factory
Thousands of historical aviation artifacts and eight priceless aircraft were destroyed in a 2004 fire at the Yankee Air Museum in southeast Michigan. Without a…
4 Reasons Hannibal Couldn’t Win the War for Carthage
Hannibal Barca inflicted one of the worst defeats ever suffered by the Roman army at the battle of Cannae. Nearly 70,000 men were killed in…
A Bloody New Year – Battle of Stones River In The American Civil War
It was cold at the turning of the year in Murfreesboro, right in the middle of the state of Tennessee. The little town nestled under…
2 Years Before Filming It’s a Wonderful Life, Jimmy Stewart was Bombing the Daylights Out of Nazi Germany
Every year when the Christmas season rolls around, the classic film of a Banker, who wishes he had never been born and an angel who…
Operation Jericho – A Rescue Mission Which Turned Into A Bloodbath
Operation Jericho was an air raid conducted by the RAF with the goal of freeing the captives of the Nazi-held Amiens prison in France. The…
First African American to Earn The Navy Cross Was a Cook Firing .50-Caliber Machine Guns at Japanese Bombers At Pearl Harbor
World War 2 will long be remembered as the epitome of total war, total gallantry, and total brutality. It spared none based on their ethnic…
Carrier Operations In the Pacific – 22 Amazing Picture you MAY Not have Seen Before !?!
The war in the Pacific was, for the first time, a war of Aircraft Carriers. They took over the leading role from the battleships which…
Remember This One? Spoof Advert Showing Young Hitler Getting Hit By Car (Watch)
Adolf Hitler may have totally loved his Mercedes limousine, but a wickedly humorous group of students created a video in 2013 that showed the vehicle’s…
10 Interesting Facts About The End Of The First World War
Here are ten interesting facts about the Armistice, that ended WW II. 1- The Kiel Mutiny and German Revolution was the final blow to the…