The Best Gun of WWII – Flak 88 in photos
The Flak 88 was a legendary WWII-era anti-air and an anti-tank gun used by Nazi Germany and their allies. The predecessor of this iconic gun…
Unique Cache of Antique Weapons Discovered in Canal
This is the astonishing moment a cache of guns was pulled out of a canal by a family of magnet-fishers. The Price family couldn’t believe…
British Commando and WWII Hero Laid to Rest
On July 18, 2018, England’s Patrick Churchill, age 94, was honored at a funeral held at St. Mary The Virgin Church in Witney, Oxfordshire. Churchill,…
Voices of the Flemish Waffen-SS – The Final Testament of the Oostfronters
What motivated men to fight for an enemy that had invaded their own country? These are last voices of the Flemish Waffen-SS; there are very…
Youngest RAF Spitfire Pilot in Battle of Britain Passes away at 97
Geoffrey ‘Boy’ Wellum was the Second World War’s youngest Spitfire pilot. He joined the RAF at eighteen and died two weeks after his 97th birthday…
Andrew Jackson – Politician General in War of 1812
In the years leading up to 1812, the United States had become entangled in the conflict between the United Kingdom and France; Great Britain banned…
Remember That Time Israel Stole a MiG 21?
The Mossad is well known and considered one of the elite intelligence institutions in the world. The organization has accomplished many incredible feats over the…
Revolutionaries or Privateers? – The Birth of the U.S. Navy
At the start of the American Revolution, shipbuilding grew in the Colonies because of raw materials and the many native white pine trees greater than…
The German Extermination Conveyor at Babi Yar
On September 29, 1941, the streets of occupied Kiev were filled with thousands of women, old people and children carrying valuable things. According to the…
Celebrating 100 Years of Rags – The Mascot of the First Division
Remembering the amazing story of the connection between a dog and men at war. By the day of his rescue off a Paris street—Bastille Day,…
Secret CIA Operation to Recover Lost Soviet Submarine
The story is straight out of a Cold War techno-thriller. It’s February 1968, and the Soviet submarine K-129 has disappeared while conducting its ordinary patrols…
VTOL – From Harriers to “Uber Air”?
Vertical take-off and landing (or VTOL) has been largely the stuff of science-fiction. It usually features something like rotating jets angle downwards and then fire,…