WW II B-17 Survival Story – Virtually cut in half by a mid air collision with a German Fighter it got the crew home!
On February 1, 1943, there was a collision in mid-air between a B-17 bomber and a German fighter plane over the Tunis dock area in…
Refused To Abandon A Dying Comrade. Pulled The Pins From 2 Grenades & Calmly Awaited The Viet Cong, They Found Their Bodies The Next Day
Refusing to leave his mortally wounded comrade as the enemy approached, Australian Warrant Officer Kevin Wheatley pulled the pin on two grenades and waited for…
Footballer of Loos – Story Of An Audacious Action By A British Rifleman in WW1
The age-old notion of shell shock or as it is euphemistically called the battle fatigue has always been most misunderstood phenomenon of modern warfare. Soldiers…
Re-enactment of New Zealand World War One Volunteers’ Famous Rimutaka Hill Marches
At the end of September, a group of enthusiasts in the Wairarapa region of New Zealand re-enacted the locally famous three-day Rimutaka Hill route march,…
‘Most memorable times’ – Local veteran discusses World War II service in Women’s Army Corps
By Jeremy P. Ämick While World War II continued to unfold during the early 1940s, a young woman from the state of California believed there…
US Air Force veteran who loved the B-26 “Widowmaker”
Henry Jennings was a World War Two aerial engineer with the US Air Force. A resident of Lubbock, Texas, Henry remains a staunch aviation enthusiast…
The Heavy Tank T26E3 Pershing – 1945
As the Second World War was coming to its end, the technologies on the battlefields of Europe were becoming more and more complex. The tank…
President John F Kennedy’s DC-3 Gift To Mobutu Found Back In Congo, SOS For The Scrapper
Chaotic Start of the Congo State. Until 1960, the Congo was under Belgian Colonial rule. On June 30 of that year, a huge new Central African…
The 12 Best Civil War Movies
150 years after its end, the Civil War remains one of the most important events in American history. It has been depicted countless times in…
A Bullet-Riddled Shattered Stump is witness to the Violent Intensity of the Civil War
Photo story: The shattered, bullet-riddled oak stump is witness to the American bloody civil war (Left). A burial party of civil war soldiers fallen in…
Why The US Dumped Helicopters Overboard During the Vietnam War
Operation Frequent Wind, the largest helicopter evacuation on record, begins removing the last Americans from Saigon. The North Vietnamese had launched their final offensive in…
World War II As You’ve Never Seen it Before: In ORIGINAL Color!
When we think of World War 2 we think of black and white images and movies, however some of the cameramen were equipped with color…