The Tank Museum Opens New Exhibition
The Tank Museum in Dorset has opened its new exhibition marking the 80th anniversary of the formation of the Royal Armoured Corps (RAC). It was…
Hope For The Best And Prepare For The Worst: War-Survivalists Through History
Rationing of food and goods by civilians allowed the armies to receive desperately needed supplies. For as long as humans have gone to war or…
Why Did The US Dump $10 Million Worth of Helicopters in The Sea?
During the operation, 1,373 Americans and 5,595 citizens of Vietnam and other countries were evacuated with the help of helicopters. On April 29, 1975, a…
Francis the Talking Mule: A Soldier Turns Author
“One night I was sitting looking at a blank, unpainted wall. To pass the time I wrote four pages of dialogue between a second lieutenant…
Mr T Served in The US Army: I Pity The Fool Who Didn’t Know That!
He had a love of weaponry and often carried a .357 magnum and also had a 30-30 Winchester rifle and a sawed-off twelve gauge shotgun.…
The SAS in Aden: A Messy and Unwinnable War
When the Special Air Service (SAS) were sent into the territory of Aden in 1964, Britain’s fighting elite found themselves caught up in a messy…
“I See No Ships” Facts You May Not Have Known About Horatio Nelson
At the Battle of Cape St. Vincent, his right elbow was shattered by a musket ball during the attack, with the arm being removed by…
ANZACS: The Australians & New Zealanders at Gallipoli, 1915
By the time the Australians left the Gallipoli theater, they had suffered 26,111 casualties, including 8,141 killed in action or dying of their wounds. Australia…
Did You Know? One of the Last Units Defending Führer’s Bunker Were Frenchmen?
Krukenberg gave his troopers two options: fight or return home to France. Some chose to fight. One of the last Knight’s Crosses of the Iron…
The Most Underwhelming War Movies EVER Made
The Green Berets almost immediately got zero stars from movie critics. It was knocked for using too many clichés. War is a very complex part…
The Fantastic Idea of Dazzle Camouflage
Thanks to dazzle camouflage, submariners often made mistakes because they could not correctly identify the aforementioned data about the ship. Throughout military history, camouflage has…
Rock Apes: How Vietnam’s ‘Rock Apes’ Confounded American GIs
Sightings of rock apes by Viet Cong and NVA troops were also common enough that an NVA General organized an expedition in 1974 to try…