Tito’s Top Secret Underground Airbase Zeljava
Given that Zeljava is a huge complex of underground and overground military facilities, it has been quite a challenge to write an article about…
Amazing facts about the Junkers Ju-87 Stuka -it had a top speed of a mere 255mph
The Stuka got its nickname from the German word Sturzkampfflugzeug or dive-bomber, the official designation was Junkers Ju-87. The first plane prototype Stuka flew in…
Major Things That Went Badly Wrong on Omaha Beach
It is widely known and accepted that the landings on Omaha Beach on D-Day were something akin to a disaster, everything that could go wrong…
British Sniper Took Out 6 Taliban Fighters With A Single Shot From Half A Mile Away
A Coldstream Guards marksman on one of the last tours of duty carried out by the British in Afghanistan in December 2013 managed to kill…
Formidable Melee Weapons of Ancient Warfare
In modern warfare, hand to hand combat is a last resort, with combat knives coming out either in stealth missions or in extremely close quarters…
1950 a bad year for the USAF lost 6 aircraft in 7 weeks, incl. a B-36 with a nuclear bomb
February 13, 1950 and the dramatic story of a Convair B-36 B Peacemaker losing an Atomic Bomb! USAF’s Strategic Air Command’s long range Bomber (…
Massive Towers, Unbreakable Walls, Terrifying Siege Engines – This Was The Hundred Years War
As the sun rises over the battlefield, a column of knights gallops towards the assembled infantry. Banners flutter and arrows hurtle through the air as…
Top 4 Underrated Battles of Roman History
There is a long list of influential battles throughout Roman history: Zama, Pharsalus, Actium, Teutoburg, Adrianople and plenty more. These tend to get a major…
Land Forces of the Hundred Years War – A War That Seemed To Have No End
Fought from 1337 to 1453, the Hundred Years War was one of the most significant conflicts of the late Middle Ages. As the Plantagenet kings of…
Ten Facts: The Race To Berlin – The Dramatic Closing Stages Of World War Two
The advance on Berlin in early 1945 didn’t only mark the final stage of World War Two in Europe. It also saw the first open…
Five Successful Missions of a Waffen SS Mastermind, Otto Skorzeny
Otto Skorzeny was one of Germany’s finest commandos. An engineer by profession, he tried to volunteer for the Luftwaffe (German Air Force), in the year…
For Lt. Col. Merritt, WWII only lasted 6 Hours: But he was Awarded a Victoria Cross
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Merritt, who would one day go on to be a Victoria Cross recipient, spent three years in German captivity. However, by that point…