Unknown Soldiers: Quest To Identify The Remains Of WW1 Tommies
In the meantime, his gravestone still waits for a name. Even today, more than a century after the end of the First World War, there…
A Mad Major: The Canadian Hero Who Captured A City
He first saw action on D-Day, on which he captured a German half-track by himself. Despite being half blinded and having his back broken in…
Kriegsmarine’s Environmental Time Bomb Off The Coast of Norway
Fishing has been banned in the area, and pregnant and breastfeeding women and young children have been advised to not eat fish caught near the…
Purple Haze: Famous Veterans of The 101st Airborne
For all of us fans of the popular Band of Brothers series on HBO, there are a plethora of favorite real-life heroes portrayed in the…
Shoreham Air Crash: Pilot declared “Not Guilty” Over Deaths of 11 Victims
When the plane crashed and broke apart, Hill was flung into a ditch, suffering head injuries and fractures to his ribs and spine. Andy Hill,…
The Origin Of Plastic Surgery: The Battlefields Of WWI
After the Battle of Jutland in May 1916, Gillies had to deal with a huge influx of patients who had suffered horrific facial wounds. War…
The Scottish Army That Dressed as Cows and Stormed an English Castle
The insults stopped when the governor allegedly received an arrow in one cheek which passed through his mouth and out through the other cheek. There…
The Boer War-Canada’s First Foreign Military Engagement
The majority of French Canadians sympathized with the Boers. Canada’s involvement in the Boer War – also known as the South African war – was…
The Silver Legion: The Nazi Sympathisers of America
He also alleged that the experience gave him the ability to levitate and see through walls. Every American schoolchild knows that Americans fought the Nazis…
Tiger Tanks & Tea: The British Cup of Char in War
A method needed to be found where crews could remain in their vehicle and alert while preparing their staple afternoon tea. Britain is known for…
The Lost Ark : Spring Clean Leads To Rare Nazi Find
She had, in fact, found a rare, crucial piece of wartime communications equipment. Cleaning out the house just in time for spring and putting unused…
The Brave Resistance Fighters of WWII Slovakia
While the rebellion went well in central Slovakia, another Slovak army in the east was completely crushed the next day. One of the fundamental roadblocks…