Does this German Ship hold a Famous Russian Treasure…?
Does this sunken German steamship shipwreck contain the lost treasures of Russia’s Amber Room? An intrepid diving team certainly think so. After locating the wreck…
“Big Lizzie” met 2 Russian Blackjacks Last Week off the Coast of Scotland
British warship HMS Queen Elizabeth – also known as “Big Lizzie” – docked at Portsmouth last week, following a close shave with Russian jets. Where…
Cameras, Combat and Courage – Review by Mark Barnes
It seems like a long time since I told you about the compelling Shooting Vietnam by Dan Brookes and the late Bob Hillerby. These two…
Proposed “D-Day Land” Attraction in Normandy Opposed by Veterans But Loved by Others
Are French businessmen planning to “Disneyfy” the D-Day landings? That’s the charge being levelled at a group of creatives wanting to open a multi-million dollar…
UH-1H Huey MEDEVAC for Sale!
1966 UH-1H Huey in restored condition, S/N 66-1080. This helicopter is #2 of 3 MEDEVAC helicopters that I’m restoring, some of the pics are of…
Landmine Clearing with Lasers, Rats and Bees
The 80 million landmines and other unexploded ordnance left behind after armed conflicts are the scourge of many countries that have emerged from such strife.…
Can We Really Believe That the Days of Jet Fighter Pilots are Numbered?
Recently, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) matched an Artificial Intelligence program against an F-16 pilot with the codename “Banger,” in a series of…
Over 100 Napoleonic War Graves Found in Jersey
Rector Peter Dyson of St Saviour’s Church in Jersey has been astounded to find over 100 graves of veterans of the Napoleonic Wars in the…
Pickett’s Charge: Nothing but Glory
At exactly 2:25 PM, Confederate Colonel Edward Porter Alexander scribbled this note and rushed it off to General George Pickett: ”If you are coming at…
E Company’s Bill Wingett, One of the Famous ‘Band of Brothers’, Passes Away
On 1st October 2020, the world lost another veteran of World War II, when Bill Wingett died peacefully at the Edward C. Allworth Veterans’ Home…
Documentary Claims a Sub May Have Caused the Sinking of the Ferry MS Estonia
Foreign Ministers from the Nordic countries of Sweden, Finland, and Estonia, issued a joint statement this week that they would be assessing the new evidence…
UC-47, Surveyed After a Century Lying on the Bed of the North Sea
On the 18th November 1917, German submarine UC-47 was sunk by the Royal Navy. She lay quietly on the North Sea floor until surveyed for…