Last Cold War Vulcan Bomber retires
[Via] The UK’s last Cold War Vulcan bomber is to be grounded after this summer. During the Cold War from the 1950s to the 1970s…
Watch: Incredible gun camera footage of a Me 262 being shot down
This amazing U.S. gun-camera footage shows an American fighter firing at a German Messerschmitt Me 262 fighter jet. These planes would normally fly at speeds…
Ghosts of the Gooney Bird Volume 3 – By Hans Wiesman
In my previous Blogs Ghosts of the Gooney Bird, I showed pictures of crashed , lost and derelict Douglas C-47’s/ DC-3’s/ Dakotas. Most of them…
“THE GÖRING TELEGRAM” – Hermann Goering Telegram to Adolf Hitler On Auction!
This telegram is one of the most historic and famed messages from World War 2. It is a copy, which was discovered by Martin Bormann,…
Richard Bong, USA’s Highest Scoring Ace of WWII Was Killed In A Test Flight
The names that line the pages of history are many in number – the lengthy lists of men and women who fought, who died, who…
German spies in Ireland during World War Two
75 years ago German spies landed at Dingle Peninsula in southern Ireland. France had just fallen under Nazi occupation and the first massive air bombing…
World War One’s Reckless Rex given home town memorial
[Via] A World War One Royal Air Force pilot known as Reckless Rex is being honoured in his hometown of Exmouth in Devon, in the…
How Germany remembers through war movies: The Bridge (1959)
World Wars One and Two have been epitomized and preserved on the big screen through hundreds of war movies. Many of the movies are incarnations…
One German who defied Hitler
His gesture remains engraved in the minds of people around the world, yet August Landmesser’s name is not widely known. He is the man in the iconic…
The Funniest Armed Forces Memes
Here are some of the funniest Armed Forces memes we could find on Military Memes excellent Facebook page! Shocking Navy Never A Dull Moment In…
WW2 Panther Tank Recovered from a Cellar
Cellars are usually the host of a number of objects of memories and interests from the past, but some people go that extra mile to…
‘How Good We’ve Got It’ – Wardsville Veteran Shares Story Of Service During Vietnam War
War History online proudly presents this Guest Piece from Jeremy P. Ämick, who is a military historian and writes on behalf of the Silver Star…