He Managed to Convey the Truth by Blinking “TORTURE” in Morse Code During the Vietnam War
Prisoner Of War Jeremiah Denton, who survived 7 years locked in a tiny windowless cell in Hanoi during the Vietnam war, has passed away…
The Greatest Lie In History – Double Agent Garbo & D-Day Landings
The D-Day landings on June 6th, 1944 was the Allies attempt to invade Europe and finally push back the Nazi invaders once and for all. General…
London Underground Wartime Shelters Rediscovered!
Life for Londoners in the Second World War was fraught with danger. On the first night of the Blitz, 7th September 1940, over 800 German…
Congresswoman Fights Ban on Burying Female WWII Pilots at Arlington
Elaine Danforth Harmon was born in Baltimore, Maryland to a middle-class family; her father was a professional baseball player and a qualified dentist, and her…
The Praetorian Guard: A Double-Edged Sword
By Ludwig Heinrich Dyck / ludwigheinrichdyck.wordpress.com The Praetorian Guard evolved from the bodyguard of the Republican army commander, the ‘consul’ whose original name waspraetor. When Augustus…
RAF Pilot Ray Holmes Who RAMMED a German Bomber To Stop It Hitting Buckingham Palace
Let us recall the story of daring RAF pilot Ray Holmes and how his downing of a German Dornier 17 bomber near Buckingham Palace became one…
The Wheatcroft Collection stumbles across a huge haul of rare German tank, half-track engines & spare parts
The Wheatcroft Collection in the United Kingdom is a large and important collection of historical softskin and armoured military vehicles. It is one of the largest…
The Warship That Fired The First Shots Of WWI Was Captured, Twice Scuttled, Raised, Served 4 Different Nations & Is Still In Service
Stuck into a muddy river bank, somewhere in Serbia, lies an old, derelict gravel barge. Rusted, useless, and over 100 years old it has limited…
Saved his Men: Picked up the Grenade & Ran Towards the Enemy Killing Them & Him in the Explosion – he was a Dog
Gander was a Newfoundland dog who was originally a family pet named Pal. When Pal accidentally scratched a child’s face, the owner was concerned that…
Waking Up To Find A German U-Boat on the Beach
On April 16, 1919, the residents at Queens Hotel, a beach-front hotel in Hastings, on the Sussex coast in England, awoke to the most amazing…
The Miracle of Dunkirk Turned Into Movie By Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan, a renowned film director, has recently been scouting locations in Dunkirk, fueling rumors that he is to direct a World War II action…
Top Ten Battles of All Time
Wars start because of power struggles, and while many become forgotten, others change the destinies of entire nations. Still others shape the world we live in,…