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    Strange! Object 279 The Soviet Heavy Tank Designed To Survive A Nuclear Explosion

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    Mar 24, 2016 Joris Nieuwint

    It was at the Cold War Era’s height in 1959 when the Soviet Union constructed Object 279, which was an experimental heavy tank that could…

    Fromelles: The Worst 24 Hours In Australia’s Entire History – July 19th 1916

    • World War 1
    Mar 24, 2016 Andrew Knighton

    Horrifying loss was the defining feature of the First World War. For much of 1916, the focus of that horror on the Western Front was…

    Heavy Tank Destroyer Ferdinand Facts & Images

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    Mar 24, 2016 Nikola Budanovic

    When Ferdinand Porsche offered his designs for the Tiger II tank in 1939, it was deemed too unconventional. It was also considered too demanding to…

    Mosquito: The Best Warbird of WWII – in Color

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    Mar 24, 2016 Jack Beckett

    Undoubtedly the best aircraft of its time. Many will, of course, argue the point, and that’s understandable, we all have our favourites, but the De Havilland…

    Committee chooses Battle of Stirling Bridge monument design

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    Mar 24, 2016 Ian Harvey

    The Guardians of Scotland Trust has chosen the design for a new public monument at the site of the Battle of Stirling Bridge in central…

    When The Country Fell Apart During The American Civil War, So Did West Point

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    Mar 23, 2016 Daniel Russ

    When the country fell apart, West Point was not immune to the bitterness and divisive political atmosphere. Most of the commanders on both sides of…

    Civil War shipwreck may be a Blockade Runner

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    Mar 23, 2016 Ian Harvey

    During the Civil War, Confederate blockade runners evaded Union blockades set up to prevent war supplies and other goods from reaching the South. They used…

    The beginning of the end for the Teutonic Knights, Grunwald 1410

    • Medieval
    Mar 23, 2016 Jack Beckett

    For more than two hundred years the might of the Order of Teutonic Knights had been steadily growing. It was forged in 1190, in the…

    Outnumbered and With Taliban Overrunning the Base, Clinton Romesha Was Awarded MoH at the Battle of Kamdesh

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    Mar 23, 2016 Jeff Edwards

    The Battle of Kamdesh would be one of the costliest battles for the Americans of the entire Afghanistan conflict as it saw an American outpost…

    Kampfgruppe Peiper & the 1st SS Leibstandarte Division (Watch)

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    Mar 23, 2016 Joris Nieuwint

    Great Tank footage here, also some film of Peiper, his Blowtorch Battalion and the Leibstandarte 1st SS Panzer Division. Many men, soldiers, and supporters of…

    The Philadelphia Experiment: The US Navy’s secret invisibility research program?

    • World War 2
    Mar 23, 2016 Colin Fraser

    What kind of technologies do the governments and militaries of the world possess? What highly classified project have the public been blissfully unaware of? Anti-gravity?…

    In the Pitch-Black Jungle of Guadalcanal, Marine John Basilone Would Decimate an Entire Japanese Regiment

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    • World War 2
    Mar 23, 2016 Jeff Edwards

    Often described as the turning point for the Pacific in World War 2, the Battle of Guadalcanal represented the moment that Japanese expansion in the…

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