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…
Movie Mistakes – A Bridge Too Far
Early in the movie, in the scene when the generals are having a meeting, they have a map of Europe and Middle East from the…
Hard Luck Castle: Ideal for Doomsday Preppers
Johnson has decided that this phase of his life is now over, and he intends to buy a boat and move onto new adventures. If…
Strange But True: When US & German Forces Defeated the Waffen SS
The inmates broke into the weapons room but could not leave the castle. The woods surrounding them were full of Waffen SS and Gestapo. Wars…
LST 510: Landed Tanks on D-Day is Now a Converted Car Ferry
Among their crews it was joked that LST stood for “Large Slow Target.” The D-Day operation took place almost eighty years ago. Practically every single…