Avro Lancaster NX611 ‘Just Jane’ Restoration Progress
Avro Lancaster NX611 ‘Just Jane’: This week we have dismantled the number 4 propeller and rebuilt the number 3 propeller. The old number 3 prop…
Iconic Last-of-its-Kind LCT 7074 About to Go On Display
LCT 7074 is the last remaining landing craft of its kind. It participated in the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944, along with 800 other…
15 Images of Field Marshal Montgomery You May Not Have Seen Before
Field Marshal Montgomery is one of the defining figures of British wartime. In terms of image and influence, he ranks alongside Winston Churchill. Churchill had…
Civil War Cannonball Exploded & Killed 140 Years After it Was Fired
Sam White was a dyed-in-the-wool Civil War fanatic. He was never happier than when he was searching for Civil War relics or restoring those that…
Eisenhower’s Jeep Could Make $200,000 Auction
A Jeep that was gifted to General Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower in recognition of his strategic brilliance as Supreme Allied Commander in World War II…
Yours for Just $1.3 Million 1944 Grumman Wildcat
History: The F4F Grumman Wildcat began life on Grumman’s drawing boards as a biplane, but nevertheless became the Navy’s first monoplane fighter aircraft. The Wildcat…
Archaeologists Study Remnants of SS Concentration Camp on British Soil
Researchers are studying a Nazi concentration camp on the island of Alderney for the first time since World War II. They are discovering details about…
Pearl Harbor Veteran, Edward Bloch, Dies at 97
Pearl Harbor, the morning of December 7th, 1941, nineteen-year-old Eddie Bloch, who had enlisted in the Army Air Corps in March of that year, had…
20 Images of Eisenhower You May Not Have Seen Before
General Dwight D. Eisenhower: respected military commander and 34th President of the United States. Born David Dwight Eisenhower in Texas 1890, he graduated from military…
Australian Outback Could Have Been ‘Israel’ in Australia
Poet and educator Melekh Ravitsh had a dream, shared by many Jewish people who had witnessed the anti-Semitism of the Nazi regime led by Adolf…
Star Trek’s Mr Sulu Pleased California Will Apologise for the Treatment of Japanese in WW2
George Takei, Mr. Sulu in the popular Star Trek series, is very pleased that California will give a ‘long overdue’ apology for the treatment meted…
20 Images of Churchill You May Not Have Seen Before
As Prime Minister, Sir Winston S. Churchill became the embodiment of British fighting spirit and led his nation to victory. Born in Oxfordshire 1874, Winston…