100 years since the first ‘Gas Attack’ – How WWI saw the death and destruction by chemical weapons
The last words from one of the first victims of a gas attack during the First World War were ‘I am falling myself’. Commander Georges…
Black Hawk Down- Never before seen footage of America’s battle in Somalia
Photo story: Original footage of the First Battle of Mogadishu (3-4 October, 1993), during which two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters were shot down by RPGs…
DIDN’T KNOW THIS!! Its existence kept secret throughout the war, the US naval base at Ulithi was for a time the world’s largest naval facility.
On March 1945, the largest convoy of US Navy ships and personnel sailed from a base in the Pacific Ocean. Where was this base? This…
Don’t miss out!!! With up to 20 actors attending the Brothers Actors Autograph Signings in Normandy
Are you in Normandy for D-Day week this year? If so, come along to one of the signing sessions by the actors. All to support…
FOR SALE, this War Relic C-47 Dakota and the book The Dakota Hunter – By Hans Wiesman
FOR SALE, this War Relic C-47 Dakota (not in flying condition, but in smaller framed skin panels for wall decoration) and the book The Dakota…
Remember the German WWII tanks & SPGs on the Bulgarian & Turkish border
During World War II, when Bulgaria joined the Axis powers in fighting the Soviet Union, they were given some 97 German Panzer IV tanks, about…
The mystery of the missing wheel cap of ‘Enola Gay’ – B-29 that dropped Atomic bomb on Hiroshima
[Via] The iconic B-29 bomber that was used to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was named the ‘Enola Gay’. This plane was not preserved…
Prince Harry flies in a Spitfire – supporting his scholarship programme for veterans
As a gesture of support for the veterans of Britain’s wars, Prince Harry took to the skies in a ‘Spitfire’ and he seemed to be…
Biggest wartime shelter in Britain sheds light on life during the Second World War
[Via] The biggest air raid shelter in the UK gives an idea of how Britons lived during the biggest and deadliest conflict of the 20th…
SS-LEIBSTANDARTE DIVISION & SS-WIKING – Review by Phil Hodges
“You can’t change history…. You can denounce it, be shocked, appalled or even revolt against the truth, but you can’t deny or ignore it” The…
Otto Carius, Famous German Panzer ace of WWII, dies at 92
One of the most respected and successful German tank aces, Otto Carius, who destroyed more than 150 tanks, died on 24th January 2015, at the…
Oise-Aisne American Cemetery Plot E – Where The Dishonorable Dead from WWII are Buried
The Oise-Aisne American Cemetery is a military cemetery in northern France where American soldiers killed in the area during World War I are buried. It…