The VC Sergeant: He Charged the Enemy Armed Only With a Pocket Full of Grenades
“It is entirely fitting and in keeping with his wishes that our family should inter his ashes at the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Korea,…
Guns in Movies and Television: The Best & Worst
In the movie Heat (1995), former SAS member Andy McNab was brought in to advise on weapon choices and train the actors how to use…
Whittling Time Away: Trench Art of WWI
Ostensibly, artillery shells were supposed to be recycled, but their use as an artistic material kept their reuse for war efforts minimal. The scale of…
Coca-Cola: Morphine Replacement And a By Product of the American Civil War!
This addiction to morphine would be what drove Pemberton to invent Coca-Cola. While not too many people nowadays may know who John Stith Pemberton was,…
WWI And The Paranormal: Spooky Tales From The Trenches
Certainly, men who were rendered insane by shellshock sometimes wandered aimlessly about No Man’s Land, screaming incoherently or moaning. Whether you’re a believer in the…
The Zippo Lighter: An Icon Of The Vietnam War
After an American M1 combat helmet with an ace of spades tucked into the strap, probably the next most iconic cultural image associated with the…
One of the Longest Sieges of WWII: The Destruction of Leningrad
The bombardment of Leningrad began on September 8, 1941 after the Germans had already encircled the city and cut off its main supply routes. The…
An Albanian Adventure: A Cold War Treasure Trove of Dakotas & Mig’s
This bunker is a type of time capsule from the Cold War whose like you will rarely see anymore, it is a weird War-Art Museum…
Audie Murphy: The Film Career of an American War Hero
Murphy was a Texan of Irish descent but was not what you might call a typical example. He always looked younger than his age and…
Ypres: The Last Post at the Menin Gate
Ieper, Ypres, or “Wipers” as it was nicknamed—I’ve been to the Belgian town dozens of times before. I can even remember my first visit here…
Schindler’s List “Girl in the Red Coat” was Left Traumatized After Watching Herself in the Spielberg Movie
Most of us have seen the iconic movie Schindler’s List, produced and directed by the famous filmmaker Steven Spielberg. Without a doubt the scenes, oftentimes…
No Artillery Support and a Casualty Rate of 75%: The Australians at Bullecourt WWI
Gough ordered 12 British tanks to precede the Australian advance, but many of them were either hit by German artillery of simply broke down. In…