Firm But Fair – Former Missouri Sheriff served with Marines in South Pacific in WWII
Wyman S. Basinger has a reputation that endures following his years of service as sheriff of Cole County, Missouri, earning him the distinction as a…
URGENT APPEAL FOR HELP – HMS HERMES NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT. LAST CHANCE!
The Hermes Viraat Heritage Trust has been working alongside Envitech Marine Consultants in India to save the vessel from scrap. For the past 3.5 years,…
100 year old ‘Flying Tiger’ Harry Moyer Still Flies Every Week
If you are a healthy, vibrant World War II veteran pilot, how would you choose to spend your 100th Birthday? Harry Moyer is just such…
Falkland Islands Declared Mine-Free After 10-year Effort, Four Decades After End Of War
Compared to the inconveniences that plague the average beachgoer – overcast skies, sand flies, or jellyfish, to name a few – the problems faced by…
President Clears Way to Present Medal of Honor to Alwyn Cashe for His Heroic Actions
President Donald Trump has signed a bipartisan bill which clears the way for US Army Sgt Alwyn Cashe to posthumously receive the nation’s highest military…
Researchers Nearly Finished With Excavation of Viking Longship in Norway
Archaeologists are excavating a rare Viking longship that has been buried for about twelve hundred years in Norway. It’s the first such excavation in Norway…
How a US Squad Saved Some of the World’s Most Valuable Horses
As World War II wound to a close, just days before Adolf Hitler would take his own life in a bunker in Berlin, the 2nd…
US Marine MIA for More Than 70 Years on Tarawa Atoll Returned to Home Town from Pacific Atoll
In three days of intense fighting, more than six and a half thousand American, Japanese and Korean soldiers were killed in the Battle of Tarawa.…
“I guess they didn’t know I was a marine:” PFC Edward Ahrens’ Last Stand
United States Marine Corps PFC Edward Ahrens holds a special place in the Corps’ long history of larger than life characters whose bravery and tenacity…
Crash Site of a Zeppelin Aircraft Found in Poland, a Century After it Happened
Over a century ago, the then young Western People’s Ukrainian Republic sent a Zeppelin Staaken aircraft on a secret mission. The plane was laden with…
Divers cleaning up the ocean net themselves an Enigma machine
Divers, working on behalf of the World Wildlife Fund, cleaning up the ocean of discarded fishing nets that pose an enormous danger to oceanic wildlife,…
Buried Deep: More War Treasures Found In Polish Woods
The woods between Poland and Germany are rife with treasures and evidence of the terrible, tragic events that took place there when the Second World…