Purple Heart Stockpile: The WWII Medals Still Being Issued
By the end of the war, over one million wounded or dead US servicemen from the war received the Purple Hearts. During WWII, the United…
Through German Eyes-The Aftermath of the Dunkirk Evacuations
Staff cars and troop carriers are strewn along mile after mile of sand dunes. The flotilla of little boats that helped the British Expeditionary Forces…
Canada’s Finest-Mapping the Battle of Normandy
The large amount of data we have collected from the situation maps and War Diaries will be viewable as unit positions on top of the…
When The Earth Had a Ring About it- Project West Ford
The US military believed that the Soviet Union could attack an undersea cable. The American space program landed people on the moon and has contributed…
Bombs,Bullets and Beer-The British Brew Barge of WWII
What better way to keep a soldier at his best than to keep him happy? In 1933, the 21st Amendment saw America out of Prohibition…
Potato Masher Turned to Chips – WW1 Grenade Found in Hong Kong
Employees of a potato chip factory in Hong Kong discovered a German hand grenade. More than a hundred years have passed since the First World…
Cake Conflict – Too Fat To Serve?
The obesity epidemic is now impinging upon the Armed Forces. We tend to think of Armed Forces personnel as chiselled, hard-bodied hunks; that’s how they…
Tough Choice But The 82nd Airborne Inducted 20 Members Into Its Hall of Fame
We all know of the storied exploits of the United States’ 82nd Airborne Division. The elite group of soldiers with the motto – Death From…
‘Hanoi Hilton’ Survivor Dies at 81 He Endured 6.5 Years as a PoW
An American veteran who lasted more than six years in a hellish Vietnamese prisoner of war (POW) camp, Murphy Neal Jones, Sr., passed away in…
Bf 109 Pilot Franz Stigler (who saluted) & B-17 Pilot Charlie Brown’s (who thus survived)
It was December 20, 1943 and in the freezing air high above Germany, 2nd Lieutenant Charles “Charlie” Brown struggled to keep the mortally damaged American…
Whoops – When The USA Dropped a Nuclear Bomb onto a Farm in North Carolina
In January 1961, President John F. Kennedy was inaugurated and the Cold War was in full force. US Air Force bombers and fighter planes were…
The Heavyweight Monster Tanks of WW2
During World War I, tank warfare was still very much in its infancy. The priority at the time was about getting this new technology to work…