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…
“Turtle” of 1776 – The First ‘Submarine’ Ever Used In War
The first large-scale example of submarine warfare took place in the First World War, with German U-boats sinking a number of Allied ships, and by…
The Battle of Towton: The Bloodiest Battle Ever Fought On English Soil
The Wars of the Roses in the fifteenth century featured a number of brutal and bloody battles between the Royal Houses of Lancaster and York.…
The Deadliest Civil War In History & Second Deadliest War Ever Fought
For countless centuries, China has suffered protracted periods of invasion and counter-invasion, insurrection, conquest, and war. Many of the deadliest of these wars occurred in…
The Three Hundred & Thirty-Five Years’ War – The Longest War In History
Most wars in history have lasted from a few months to a few years. A few have lasted over a decade, even fewer a couple…
More to The Ill-fated Mongol Invasions of Japan Than Just a “Divine Wind”
Most people know of the kamikaze pilots of WWII who deliberately piloted their planes into Allied ships during the latter stages of the war. Many…