He Continued to Play Despite Breaking his Neck: From Fallschirmjäger To English Soccer Hero
n 1942, after a few months of fighting, only 300 of the original 1,000 men of Trautmann’s unit were still alive. When American soldiers captured…
The English Longbow: Machine Gun Of The Medieval Era
The heavy war arrows used by English longbowmen were able to penetrate leather and cloth armor, iron plate armor, and even some types of steel…
From Conscientious Objector To Medal Of Honor War Hero
York’s battalion was charged with capturing a number of German machine gun positions situated on the other side of a valley. Rare is the pacifist…
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…