The Misfit Who, On His First Mission, Became the First Enlisted Airman To Receive a Medal of Honor
Maynard Harrison “Snuffy” Smith was such a screw-up, he joined the US Army to avoid jail. He earned the nickname, “Snuffy Smith,” because no one…
Untold Story of British Marines’ Heroism on the Eve of Falklands War
More often than not history repeats itself in a variety of different fashions as it did for British forces in a very short and less…
Piggyback Hero – by Ralph Kinney Bennett
We present this guest blog by author Ralph Kinney Bennett In 2003 they laid the remains of Glenn Rojohn to rest in the Peace Lutheran Cemetery in…
Watch: Nazi Germany’s Heavy Tank: Panzer VIII Maus
In late 1944 the Germans completed the first Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus, the heaviest fully enclosed armored fighting vehicle ever to see the light of day. The…
Top 10 Horribly Inaccurate War Movies
The majority of the people do not directly take part in the wars going around the world. Therefore, it is very significant that the people…
Audie Murphy – The US Most Decorated Soldier – Plays Himself In To Hell And Back
One of the most highly decorated American soldier of World War II, Audie Leon Murphy, was born on the 20th June 1925. His life story…
The Mystery of the Wellington Crash in 1941 Eventually Solved
There is no scarcity of lost and found stories of the last moments of thousands of Allied and German soldiers during the Second World War.…
Plane that went Down During Pearl Harbor Photographed for First Time
A plane from the Oahu Air Army Force Base, which was attacked by the Japanese minutes before the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7,…
British Intelligence Eavesdropping on Captured German Generals Proved to be a Turning Point in War
German prisoners believed they were living in luxury the way the British officers were treating them. The prisoners were held in large, well-kept homes where…
What the Japanese Did To The Chinese Who Helped The Doolittle Raid Airmen…
During World War II 80 volunteer raiders bombed a Japanese city in revenge for the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was April 18, 1942, and,…
Ghosts of the Gooney Bird, a magnificent series of photos of the legendary DC-3 Dakota in her final glory – By Hans Wiesman
During my multiple expeditions since 1990 in search of the legendary Gooney Bird, I ran into many DC-3 derelicts, C-47 wrecks, abandoned Dakotas and fortunately,…
Abandoned Submarines
Submarines, the hunter killer ships we all know from the first and second world war. Or the missile submarines that hide in the deep oceans,…