The Japanese Diplomat Who Saved Thousands of Jews During WWII
September 09, 2017
Sergeant Major Stanley Hollis, Recipient of the Only Victoria Cross for D-Day
September 09, 2017
Fighting Joe Hooker Worked Hard To Become a General in the American Civil War
September 08, 2017
Unexpected Consequences – How The Spanish-American War Improved American Food
September 08, 2017
Wounded in Action – Powerful German Officers of WWII
September 08, 2017
Treachery – The Spies Who Betrayed British Military Secrets During the Cold War
September 08, 2017
14-18 NOW Launches Global Search For Poppies Seen At The Tower Of London
September 08, 2017
Active duty, Reserve, Military Veterans, First Responders, All To Receive Free Haircuts On 9-11
September 08, 2017
Night at the Tower,The World Remembers – September Events at the National World War I Museum and Memorial
September 08, 2017
From Game of Thrones to Lord of the Rings – Movies And TV Shows Inspired By Real Wars
September 08, 2017
True or False – Bizarre Myths And Legends which have Gathered around the Nazis
September 08, 2017
Tony Stein – The Inventive Warrior – An amazing American Marine in WW2
September 08, 2017
Incredible Self-Sacrifice – Sergeant George D. Libby, Medal Of Honor
September 08, 2017
These Weapons were Responsible For The Deaths Of The Soldiers Who Used Them
September 08, 2017
The First Medal of Honor Recipient of WW2 Stood His Ground at Pearl Harbor
September 08, 2017
The Reluctant Hero Who was awarded a Victoria Cross… Twice
September 08, 2017
A Massive Operation – Raising A U-Boat To Recover Her Precious Cargo
September 08, 2017
The ‘Cisco Kids’: Tuskegee Airmen brothers George and Arnold Cisco
September 08, 2017
The most decorated Marine in United States history – Chesty Puller, American Hero
September 08, 2017
Eric Liddell, the Record Breaking Olympian Who Kept Hope Alive in a Japanese Prison Camp
September 08, 2017
When Italy Destroyed More American Planes Than the German Luftwaffe
September 07, 2017
The WWI Experience of Germany’s WWII Commanders
September 07, 2017
Erwin Rommel in the Invasion of France in WWII
September 07, 2017
Field Marshal Erich von Manstein – German Commander in World War II
September 07, 2017
The Incredible Defence of Westerplatte – Gdańsk, Poland, 1939
September 07, 2017
Stunning Must See Video Of A Dakota AC-47 T, Acting As Lethal Spooky Killer
September 07, 2017
Japanese Fire Balloons and the Tragic Tale of the Last WWII Casualties on US Soil
September 07, 2017
Amazing Pictures – The Lost Tommies in Colour
September 07, 2017
The Gray Ranks – The Fighting Boy-Scouts Of The Polish WWII Resistance
September 07, 2017
The Woman Who Smuggled Over 2,500 Jewish Kids Out Of the Warsaw Ghetto In Suitcases or Medical Bags
September 07, 2017
Original D-Day footage: US Troops storm the Beaches of Normandy (Watch)
September 07, 2017
This Brave Pilot Climbed Out On To The Wing Of His Stricken Bomber At 13,000 Feet
September 07, 2017
The Only Marine to Earn a Medal of Honor for Actions as a POW, Donald Cook Was Truly Unbreakable in the Face of the Enemy
September 07, 2017
“Hobart’s Funnies” – The Crazy-Looking Tank Mods That Helped Win D-Day
September 07, 2017
The Iowa Class: A Departure from Traditional US Battleship Design
September 07, 2017
John J. McGinty III – Racing through the Jungles of Vietnam to Save his Men
September 06, 2017
Willi Langkeit – German Panzer Commander of World War Two
September 06, 2017
The Battle of Waterloo and the Final Downfall of Napoleon
September 06, 2017
Going Nuclear – Germany and Japan Fail to Build the Bomb in WWII
September 06, 2017
Canadian Pilot Alan McLeod Took Down Enemy Planes Even as He Crashed
September 06, 2017
How An Explosion In Northern New Jersey Put 62,000 People Onto The Front Lines Of World War 1
September 06, 2017
Some of the Most Moving War Memorials from around the World
September 06, 2017
Making History – The Ship’s Cook Who Grabbed A .50 Cal To Shoot Down Enemy Planes At Pearl Harbor
September 06, 2017
Ham & Jam – The Daring Glider Operation To Take Pegasus Bridge
September 06, 2017
‘Without Precedent’ – Commando, Fighter Pilot and The True Story of Australia’s First Purple Heart
September 06, 2017
The Defense of Brest Fortress In WW2 – “We’ll Die But We Won’t Leave The Fortress”
September 06, 2017
The Much-Reviled Sir Douglas Haig May Have Been The Best Man For a Terrible Job
September 06, 2017
‘Lucky Luciano’ – The Father of Organized Crime Won His Freedom by Helping the US Government during WW2
September 06, 2017
Operation Varsity – Crossing Of The Rhine In The Final Months Of World War 2
September 06, 2017
Pierre Ortiz: French Legionnaire, US Marine, Hollywood Actor, German Nightmare
September 05, 2017
Richard the Lionheart’s Secret Weapon During the Third Crusade
September 05, 2017
The Tragedy of Exercise Tiger: A Training Mission That Left More GIs Dead Than Utah Beach
September 05, 2017
Franz von Werra: Only Western-Held POW to Return to Combat
September 05, 2017
Honor: Counterproductive Japanese War Ethics in WWII
September 05, 2017
The Bayonet Has Been A Part Of Warfare For Over 400 Years
September 05, 2017
Women’s Battalion of Death: First World War All-Female Forces From Russia
September 05, 2017
Historical Re-enactment Event Demonstrates Life at a former World War II Prisoner of War Camp
September 05, 2017
The Submachine Gun – An Infantry Weapon Which Changed The Face Of Warfare
September 05, 2017
Making An Aircraft Carrier Out of Ice and Sawdust In World War Two
September 05, 2017
Warren G. H. Crecy: the Baddest Man in the 761st
September 05, 2017
When The Finns And The Snow Resisted The Soviet Invasion In The Winter War
September 05, 2017
Medal of Honor – One American’s Daring Escape from German Soldiers In WW2
September 05, 2017
FUSAG: The Ghost Army – Patton’s D-Day Force That Was Only A Threat In The Enemy’s Imagination
September 05, 2017
Banzai Cliff, The Site of Hundreds of Suicides at the End of the Battle of Saipan
September 05, 2017
“Sharing my story” – Local veteran served as parts specialist with infantry battalion in Vietnam War
September 05, 2017
Operation Drumbeat – U-Boat Happy Days On The USA East Coast
September 04, 2017
The Real Fury: Patton’s Disastrous 1945 Raid to Rescue His Son-in-Law
September 04, 2017
A Bridge Too Far: The Amazing Story of the Battle of Arnhem
September 04, 2017
Nine Reasons Why The Allies Won The Battle of Britain
September 04, 2017
‘Scarface’ – The Elite Nazi Commando Who Hitler Sent To Rescue Mussolini
September 04, 2017
Finding The Voices Of The Veterans – Ann Hamlet Collects The Memoirs Of Veterans For Exciting New Book
September 04, 2017
When Cadets At The US Air Force Academy Realized Their Janitor Was Medal Of Honor War Hero
September 04, 2017
Get Out of Jail Free – How Monopoly Helped Allied POWs Escape
September 04, 2017
The Ship’s Cook Who Took Over A .50-Caliber Machine Gun To Fight The Japanese At Pearl Harbor
September 04, 2017
“What we went through” – James Belshe, WWII Veteran Earns Purple Heart for Injury Sustained in the Philippines
September 04, 2017
The WW2 Raid on Amiens Prison – A Rescue Mission Which Turned Into A Bloodbath
September 04, 2017
Franz Staudegger – German Tiger Ace in the Battle of Kursk
September 04, 2017
Calvin L. Graham: America’s Youngest WWII Hero
September 03, 2017
The Battle of Salamanca: Wellington at his Opportunistic Best
September 03, 2017
Covert German Military Growth During The Interwar Years
September 03, 2017
Aristides de Sousa Mendes Saved More People than Schindler but Died a Pariah
September 03, 2017
Foreigners Who Fought in Other Countries’ Armies
September 03, 2017
How Extraterrestrials Got Japanese-Americans Interned in 1942
September 03, 2017
Why the World’s Greatest Naval Power Opposed the Use of Steam Ships
September 03, 2017
William Hitler, Nephew of Adolf, Joined the US Navy to Fight The Nazis in WW2
September 03, 2017
Building Armies in the Harsh World of Medieval England
September 03, 2017
The Longbow: Its Rise and Dominance – It Totally Changed Medieval Warfare
September 03, 2017
Understanding the Crusader Mind – How Crusaders Might Have Thought And Felt About Their Wars
September 03, 2017
The Battle of Stoney Creek – A Minor Fight That Changed History
September 03, 2017
The Amazing Career of General Billy Mitchell, American Father of the Skies
September 03, 2017
This WW1 VC Charged The Enemy Trenches Captured 6 Machine Guns and 100 Infantry
September 03, 2017
The Man Who Escaped 200 Times From A Nazi PoW Camp To Visit His Lover
September 03, 2017
China’s Long Fight Against Japan – 1937 to 1945
September 02, 2017
WWII: Panzer Unit Grossdeutschland and the Last Ditch Defence of Germany
September 02, 2017
The SS – One of the Most Infamous Fighting Forces in History
September 02, 2017
Poetic Justice and the Plot to Kill Hitler
September 02, 2017
Alois Brunner: One Of The Most Notorious Nazi Officers – He Died Unpunished
September 02, 2017
A Quick Guide To The 15 Decisive Battles of the World
September 02, 2017
Well Worth Visiting – The Ten Most Interesting Military And Wartime Cemeteries in the World
September 02, 2017
Famous Medieval Knights – Warriors, Leaders, And Scholars
September 02, 2017
When Discretion Was The Better Part of Valor
September 02, 2017
Nancy Harkness Love: A Symbol of Pride, Passion, and Perseverance In WW2
September 02, 2017
History of the Hand Grenade – An Essential Infantry Weapon In Modern Warfare
September 02, 2017
After The Battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Horatio Nelson Traveled Back To England Pickled in Brandy
September 02, 2017
The Curious Tale of an Extremely Jinxed Ship – The USS William D. Porter (DD-579)
September 02, 2017
The Dramatic British Opium Wars Which Changed The Course Of History
September 02, 2017
The Strange And Cold Day The French Cavalry Captured a Dutch Fleet at Sea
September 02, 2017
Lucky As Hell – Air Force veteran transitioned from transport to jet aircraft during Cold War
September 01, 2017
In World War Two, The Germans Had Big Plans – Here Are Five Which Did Not Succeed
September 01, 2017
Incredible Art From The First World War
September 01, 2017
The Nazi Invasion of the Balkans & Yugoslavia – A Costly Victory
September 01, 2017
George H. Bush Narrowly Escaped Being Executed And Eaten By The Japanese in WWII
September 01, 2017
When He Ran Out of Grenades He Started Throwing Empty Beer Bottles and Earned the Victoria Cross
September 01, 2017
Refusing To Abandon The Wounded, Chaplain Emil Kapaun Remained Behind to Care for His Men and Died in a Korean POW Camp
September 01, 2017
The Awesome Alaska Class: America’s (Not Quite) Battlecruisers
September 01, 2017
On His First Mission, This American Air Force Misfit Saved His Plane And Was Awarded The Medal of Honor
September 01, 2017
When An American Submarine Took Out a Japanese Troop Train and Much More in the Pacific in WW2
September 01, 2017
Tsingtao: A Microcosm of the First World War
September 01, 2017
Fighting for Both Sides: the Spanish Army in the Napoleonic Wars
September 01, 2017
Lightning Strike: When the Americans Killed Japanese Admiral Yamamoto and Avenged Pearl Harbor
September 01, 2017
Wargaming to Unveil StrumTiger Augmented Reality Experience at AusArmourfest
September 01, 2017
Battles Of Military History: When Fighting Spirit Overcame The Odds
September 01, 2017
Private Dirk J. Vlug: the Bane of Japanese Tanks – Fighting in the Philippines in WW2
September 01, 2017
SS Panzer General Sepp Dietrich – one of the principal German tank commanders of WWII
September 01, 2017
Help the Captain make this WW2 movie happen: Calling veterans, airborne fans, reenactors & historians
September 01, 2017
The Rosary Paratrooper – Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte
August 31, 2017
Germany and Italy in WWII – A Difficult Relationship
August 31, 2017
The 1905 Mutiny on the Battleship Potemkin
August 31, 2017
The Lapland War: A Fight For Finland To Leave The War
August 31, 2017
Robert Anderson Hoover of Nashville, Tennessee: the Father of Aerobatics
August 31, 2017
Serbian WWI soldiers who died in the Netherlands
August 31, 2017
Disease, Starvation, and the Brutal Russian Winter – Why Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia Failed
August 31, 2017
Leading by Example: John J. Pershing, Prime Mentor for Future US Army Generals
August 31, 2017
Punishing the Enemy, Feeding his Men: How General Ulysses S. Grant Changed the Course of the Civil War
August 31, 2017
Make Room in Your Schedule for the CAF Red Tail Squadron Fall Event Line-up
August 31, 2017
New Video Game: NUMANTIA
August 31, 2017
Wounded, Promoted, Decorated – Adolf Hitler in the First World War
August 31, 2017
This Member Of The Nazi Party Became Known as a Modern Buddha
August 31, 2017
Amiens, 1918 – The WW1 Battle In France Which Sealed Germany’s Coming Defeat
August 31, 2017
The Battle of Stalingrad: The Battle that Broke Hitler
August 31, 2017
The Devil of Rabaul: Japanese Ace of Aces With 88 Kills Who Died In The Passenger Seat
August 31, 2017
This Fighter Pilot Saved a Bomber Squadron From German Fighter Attacks For over Half an Hour – Alone
August 31, 2017
Salon Kitty: The WWII Spy Ring Based in a Brothel
August 31, 2017
Commander Rudder (2nd Rangers) 10 years later – I Took My Son to Pointe Du Hoc and Omaha Beach
August 30, 2017
Operation Linebacker II – The Massive Bombing Campaign That Brought Peace In Vietnam
August 30, 2017
Edwin Swales VC: This Lancaster Bomber Pilot’s Sacrifice Saved His Crew
August 30, 2017
This Royal Marine Threw Himself on a Grenade, He Walked Away With a Bloody Nose and the George Cross
August 30, 2017
Historic Paratrooper Landings Of Military History
August 30, 2017
Admiral Yamamoto, The Architect Of The Sneak Attack On Pearl Harbor
August 30, 2017
The Black Dispatches From the Civil War Spies
August 30, 2017
To Make Life Easier For The People Of Occupied Crete, The Allies Kidnapped The Nazi Commander
August 30, 2017
Never Too Old To Fight – 78-year old Samuel Whittemore Became A Hero In The Revolutionary War
August 30, 2017
Restoring Honor – The Americans Take Hill 609 in WW2 Tunisia
August 30, 2017
The First Man to Sink a Japanese Warship – The Battle Of Wake Island
August 29, 2017
Meet Chief Dog Sinbad, The Cheerful and Brave Coast Guard Mascot of WW2
August 29, 2017
Flying Tigers Veteran Glen Beneda Never Forgot How The Chinese Saved His Life, Nor Did They Forget Him
August 29, 2017
Two new titles from the History Press reviewed by Mark Barnes
August 29, 2017
Hidden War Messages That Weren’t Found Until Much, Much Later
August 29, 2017
These Four 20th Century Battles Were Surprisingly Deadly
August 29, 2017
After Pearl Harbor, A Japanese Pilot Crash-Landed On A Hawaiian Island And Tried to Occupy It
August 29, 2017
Hero Of Guadalcanal: John Basilone, The Consummate US Marine In The Pacific
August 29, 2017
A “mentally unstable, violent fanatic” – The Horrific War Record of Oskar Dirlewanger
August 29, 2017
P.1000 Ratte – Paper Tiger or Nazi Super Tank
August 29, 2017
The Incredible Role of the International Red Cross and The Red Crescent Movements during WWII
August 29, 2017
Nazi German Special Forces: The Brandenburg Regiment
August 28, 2017
Outnumbered 10 to 1 – In The Korean War, UN forces Held Off A Chinese Force 10 Times Their Size For Two Days
August 28, 2017
“Building an Army” – Missouri general developed system of military conscription used in WWI
August 28, 2017
“Worth the expense” – Spouse of late veteran continues efforts to acquire military memorial marker
August 28, 2017
Napoleon Changed His World, And Ours
August 28, 2017
Three Great War related books from Uniform – Review by Mark Barnes
August 28, 2017
The History of World War Two is Well-Known – But Some Details Are Often Forgotten
August 28, 2017
Legendary British WW2 Field Marshal Montgomery – “Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance, insufferable in victory”
August 28, 2017
The Flaws of the Brilliant Civil War General “Stonewall” Jackson
August 28, 2017
The Dramatic Buildup to the Surrender of Axis Forces in Tunisia During WWII
August 28, 2017
Andersonville, The Notorious Confederate PoW Camp In The Civil War
August 28, 2017
War In The Air – Gun Camera Footage Of B-17s Under Attack By Luftwaffe Fighters
August 28, 2017
Vistula-Oder Offensive: The Offensive That Brought The Soviets To 70km From Berlin
August 28, 2017
He put up such a fight in captivity that the Viet Cong executed him out of frustration
August 28, 2017
Flying the Me 262 – The First Operational Jet Fighter
August 28, 2017
Four new books from The Pen & Sword Stable – Review by Mark Barnes
August 27, 2017
Their lives for you – Battle of the Bulge veteran awarded France’s highest accolade
August 27, 2017
“Dogs Tags” – Director presents his World War II independent short film – Watch the trailer here
August 27, 2017
Battle of Khe Sanh May Have Been The Cause Of The Tet Offensive’s Success
August 27, 2017
Black Sheep One: The U.S. Marine Corps Ace Credited with the Highest Number of Kills In WWII – Gregory “Pappy” Boyington
August 27, 2017
The Hardest Day: The Battle of Britain, When All Was Almost Lost
August 27, 2017
Mantinea: Greeks Killing Each Other to Pave the Way for Conquest
August 27, 2017
Brand New Naval War Simulation Game – Mobile Battleship by Betterfun
August 27, 2017
The Cu Chi Tunnels: A Dangerous Underground Warzone in Vietnam
August 27, 2017
Wounded, He Sacrificed Himself to Clear the way for his Platoon – James Stokes, VC
August 27, 2017
The Element of Surprise – Totally Effective Surprise Attacks in Military History
August 27, 2017
Purposely Going Down with His Ship, This WW2 Captain Saved Countless Lives And Was Awarded The MoH
August 27, 2017
This Reindeer Battalion of WWII Was Braver than Soviets, Tougher Than Tanks
August 27, 2017
UPDATED now with video: Wreckage From The USS Indianapolis Has Been Located
August 27, 2017
James Bond Author Ian Fleming’s Service in the British Intelligence During WWII
August 26, 2017
Mayaguez Incident, The Last Battle of the Vietnam War, 3 Marines Were Left Behind And Executed
August 26, 2017
The Invasion of Crete: The Great Paratroop Invasion Which Was So Costly For The Germans That It Became Their Last
August 26, 2017
The Disastrous Dieppe Raid That Carved The Path For All Future Allied Landing Operations
August 26, 2017
Adolf Eichmann, the Evil Architect of the Holocaust in WW2
August 26, 2017
Meet the Mad WW2 Major Who Charged Ashore With Bow, Arrow, And Longsword
August 26, 2017
Harold Ackroyd – A Selfless WWI Medic with More than 20 Separate VC Recommendations
August 26, 2017
In WW2, Peter Rupp Saved 14 American Soldiers from Certain Death at the Hands of the Nazis
August 26, 2017
The Woman Who Voted Against WW2 – The Pacifism, Feminism & Radicalism of Jeannette Pickering Rankin – by Martin K.A. Morgan
August 26, 2017
The Angels of Mons – How Religion Helped Boost the Morale of British Troops in WWI
August 25, 2017
Doughboys on the Juvigny Plateau, 1918 – Guest Blog by Dr. Paul Dean
August 25, 2017
How Caesar Defeated 250,000 Gaulish Warriors Coming At Them From Two Sides With Only 60,000 Legionnaires
August 25, 2017
Clem Dowler Went From B-17 Ball Turret Gunner To Guerilla Fighter
August 25, 2017
The Battle of Grytviken – When A Lone Sniper Turned The Tide Of Battle On A Warship – By Martin K.A. Morgan
August 25, 2017
The First Siege of Tobruk: Nazi Germany’s First Defeat on Land
August 25, 2017
Le Paradis – Where the SS Murdered 97 British Prisoners on May 27th 1940
August 25, 2017
Nancy Wake, in WWII – Freedom Fighter, Allied Agent and The Gestapo’s Most Wanted
August 25, 2017
John Baskeyfield VC: A Mighty Hero of the WW2 Battle of Arnhem
August 25, 2017
The Ranger and the Drake: John Paul Jones Brings the American Revolution to Britain
August 25, 2017
The Six Men Who Were Behind the July 20th Plot to Assassinate Hitler
August 24, 2017
Hannibal Barca: Rome’s Most Dangerous Enemy
August 24, 2017
The Terrible Conflict That Was The Vietnam War
August 24, 2017
The Bolo Knife – History, Development And Use Of An Iconic Weapon
August 24, 2017
The Story Behind “In Flanders Fields” – One Of The Most Famous War Poems Of History
August 24, 2017
The Battle of Mons, The First Clash Between the British And German Armies In WWI
August 24, 2017
“A moment’s notice” – Veteran Discusses Cold War Service with Air Force’s Titan II Missiles
August 24, 2017
Robert Smalls, a slave, stole a Confederate ship and earned his freedom
August 24, 2017
“Benefits earned” – Army veteran of the Vietnam War encourages others to apply for VA benefits
August 24, 2017
“Faith and Fairness” – World War II Veteran’s Legacy Defined by Ministry, Education and Equal Rights
August 24, 2017
Calling all Airborne fans, Dale Dye needs your help to make a D-DAY movie about the 82nd Airborne
August 23, 2017
When the Soviets Shot Down A U-2 Spyplane, The Cold War Turned Hot
August 23, 2017
The Top Ten Most Expensive Wars the United States Has Been Involved In
August 23, 2017
Hideki Tojo – Japanese WWII Prime Minister – Controversial To This Day
August 23, 2017
10 Countries Invaded by Fascist Italy and Why They Invaded Each One
August 23, 2017
The Heroic World War Two Volunteer – Charles Joseph Coward
August 23, 2017
Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz and the Danish Resistance in World War Two
August 23, 2017
“Faith and Fairness” – World War II Veteran’s Legacy Defined by Ministry, Education and Equal Rights
August 23, 2017
The Battle of Crete Was The Reason Hitler Abandoned Parachute Assaults For Good
August 23, 2017
The Sniper who Killed a Taliban Machine Gunner from 8,120 feet away
August 23, 2017
When Soldiers, Sailors, And Civilians Celebrated Victory in Europe with a Riot in Halifax
August 23, 2017
Good “Old 666”, the Cursed Bomber that No One Wanted to Fly took on 17 Japanese Fighters Alone and Lived to Tell About It
August 22, 2017
An American Experience in Vietnam – 14 Sad But Powerful Images
August 22, 2017
Edward A. Carter, Jr. received the Medal of Honor for killing six soldiers and using the surviving two as a bodyshield
August 22, 2017
Intercept Saratoga – A Photo for Fidel Castro
August 22, 2017
Presumed Dead, Eric Wilson was Posthumously Awarded the Victoria Cross
August 22, 2017
10 Facts – The Battle of Falaise Pocket In World War Two
August 22, 2017
On Crucifix Hill, Captain Bobbie Brown Destroyed Three Enemy Bunkers And Was Awarded The Medal of Honor
August 22, 2017
For Lt. Col. Merritt, WWII only lasted 6 Hours: But he was Awarded a Victoria Cross
August 22, 2017
Liquid Fire – How Napalm Was Used In The Vietnam War
August 22, 2017
Seven Very Different Opponents Faced By Victorian British Armies
August 22, 2017
General Truscott, Who Apologized To The Dead Soldiers on Memorial Day 1945
August 22, 2017
Why Did America Enter World War I – By Christopher Kelly
August 22, 2017
Lifting The Lid On Fray Bentos – The Tank Which Held Out For 60 Hours In No-Man’s Land
August 21, 2017
This is Huge – Wreckage From The USS Indianapolis Has Been Located
August 21, 2017
‘I’m still a sailor’ – Lohman, Mo., Veteran Discusses Lengthy Career in Cold War-Era Navy
August 21, 2017
A Soviet Spy Who saved The “Big Three” at the Tehran Conference was 19 years old at the time
August 21, 2017
The Man Who Found The Ancient Greek City of Troy
August 21, 2017
Shooting Down 7 Aircraft In One Day, This Marine Was Awarded The Medal Of Honor On His First Mission
August 21, 2017
Rivalry in the USA – The Toledo War of 1835 – When Ohio Fought Michigan
August 21, 2017
In WW2, General Eisenhower Lost a Bet and Had to Give General Montgomery His Own B-17
August 21, 2017
Why the Allies did not see Hitler’s Ardennes Offensive coming
August 21, 2017
When Allies Fight: Operation Torch and the Taking of North Africa
August 21, 2017
Nicaragua Invaded Costa Rica in 2010 – Then Blamed Google Maps
August 21, 2017
Samurai, Ninja, Ronin, And More – Seven Different Warrior Classes Of Feudal Japan
August 21, 2017
The Irish Invasions of Canada: Yes, the Irish really did Invade Canada – They Won Some Battles Too
August 20, 2017
“Lucky” Yamaguchi: The Man Who Survived Both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombs
August 20, 2017
VC: In WWI Horace Augustus Curtis Charged The Enemy Trenches, Capturing 6 Machine Guns and 100 Infantry
August 20, 2017
The British Army Had To Adapt to Fighting in the Americas
August 20, 2017
A 20th-Century Siege in 1809: The Second Siege of Zaragoza
August 20, 2017
The Victorian British Army Made Life Better for its Soldiers
August 20, 2017
Military Vehicles From The US and the UK that Won WWII
August 20, 2017
“Sea Stories” – WWII veteran shares tales of service aboard troop transport in the Pacific
August 20, 2017
Heinz Guderian, The Father Of The Blitzkrieg – The Officer Who Defied Hitler
August 20, 2017
Biggest UK War Cemeteries in Europe
August 20, 2017
Half Blind Japanese Pilot Flies His Damaged Zero For 5 Hours, Then Refused Medical Attention Before Making His Report
August 19, 2017
The Inspiring Story of the Seach For a Family Veteran – by Jim Knudsen
August 19, 2017
Promotion And Controversy – The Meteoric Rise Of US General Mark W. Clark
August 19, 2017
Beutepanzer, How Germany Relied on Captured Military Vehicles To Continue The Fight in World War Two
August 19, 2017
Japanese Monster Aircraft Carrier Submarines – By Hans Wiesman
August 19, 2017
This Russian Refused To Launch Nuclear Missiles During The Cuban Missile Crisis – He Saved The World
August 19, 2017
In 1974, Hirō Onoda Became The Last Japanese World War Two Soldier To Surrender
August 19, 2017
When Malaria Sided With Napoleon: The Doomed British Walcheren Expedition That Cost 4,000 Lives
August 19, 2017
While His Maniac Brother was Busy Killing Jews, Albert Göring Worked Tirelessly to Save Them
August 19, 2017
Fazal Din: the Man Who Fought on despite the Hole in His Chest
August 19, 2017
Warren G. H. Crecy: the Baddest Man in the 761st
August 18, 2017
Life in Hitler’s Wartime Headquarters
August 18, 2017
The Duke of Wellington, Napoleon’s Arch-Enemy
August 18, 2017
The History of Armored Trains And Why They Are Now A Thing Of The Past
August 18, 2017
Hitler Believed That D-Day Was a Feint
August 18, 2017
Last Man Standing – The Lone German Soldier Who Held Off A Whole Wave Of Russian Infantry and Tanks
August 18, 2017
Japan’s Onin War – A Vital Moment In The History Of Japan
August 18, 2017
A Few of the Largest Pre-20th Century Wartime Explosions
August 18, 2017
Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty – The Priest who Converted an SS Commander
August 18, 2017
Against All Odds – When United States Revenue Cutter Eagle Defended Itself For Three Days
August 18, 2017
The Tragedy of the Destroyer USS Leopold
August 17, 2017
How the American Civil War Became a “Total War”
August 17, 2017
Ivan Pavlovich Sereda: the USSR’s Heroic Cook in World War Two
August 17, 2017
A Costly Failure: Germany’s Failed Attempts to Infiltrate Allied-Occupied Italy
August 17, 2017
Operation Halyard: An Airlift Operation that Saved 417 Allied Airmen In The Balkans
August 17, 2017
A Tale of Two Rebels: Allied Support for Desperate Partisan Resistance in World War Two
August 17, 2017
“Old soldiers fade away” – Missouri veteran served in the predecessor to U.S. Air Force in WWI
August 17, 2017
Nine Reasons Why the South Lost the American Civil War
August 17, 2017
Takayama Ukon: A Great Christian Samurai
August 17, 2017
CSS Alabama and USS Kearsarge: Duel off the Coast of France
August 17, 2017
The Careers of These Soldiers Were Transformed by the Arrival of Tanks
August 16, 2017
These Commanders Revolutionised Warfare In Their Time
August 16, 2017
Get Ready to Feel the Noize with World of Tanks’ New Music
August 16, 2017
The Tsar Bomba – the Biggest Bomb The World Has Ever Seen
August 16, 2017
Allied Victory In The Hard-Fought Battle of Britain
August 16, 2017
From the Vikings to Vietnam – Five Wars in Which Drugs Fuelled the Fighting
August 16, 2017
Amazing – Douglas Brent Hegdahl III, “The Incredibly Stupid One”
August 16, 2017
José Arturo Castellanos Contreras: The Latino Schindler
August 16, 2017
A Desperate Fight to the Death: RMS Carmania Vs. SMS Cap Trafalgar 1914
August 16, 2017
Legion Vs Phalanx: Two Powerhouse Formations of the Ancient World
August 16, 2017
A Battle That Changed The Course of the Vietnam War – Hamburger Hill
August 16, 2017
Capture of the Privateer Jeune Richard, 1807 – When 28 men defeated 92
August 16, 2017
In 1937, A Toilet Break Led to War Between China and Japan
August 16, 2017
“Appreciate their sacrifices” – Missouri veteran served with Army’s Veterinary Corps in World War I
August 15, 2017
The Equipment of the Samurai – Fearsome Warriors Armed to the Teeth
August 15, 2017
Manned Torpedoes and Massive Ships – The Alexandria Raid Of World War Two
August 15, 2017
Hadrian’s Wall – The Most Impressive Roman Construction in Britain
August 15, 2017
When a WW2 German Ace Stumbled Across a Crippled B-17 and Escorted It Home
August 15, 2017
Operation Sealion: Hitler’s Doomed Plan to Invade Britain
August 15, 2017
Hell broke loose – Navy veteran served as corpsman with Marine Corps on Iwo Jima in WWII
August 15, 2017
Medieval Armor, From Quilted Cloth to Full Steel Plate
August 15, 2017
Top American Civil War Sites To Visit Today
August 15, 2017
Rome’s Greatest Enemies – Five People Who Fought Back Against the Empire
August 15, 2017
In Feudal Japan, This Ambitious Warlord Rose To Blood-Soaked Victory, Then Was Betrayed
August 14, 2017
Jack Lucas: He Fought the US Marines to Get at the Japanese
August 14, 2017
Here’s Why William Wallace Won At Stirling Bridge In The Face Of Overwhelming Odds
August 14, 2017
The Persian Thermopylae: When Alexander The Great Nearly Lost His Empire In Battle
August 14, 2017
Audie Leon Murphy: World War Two Hero, Medal of Honor Recipient, and Mega-Star
August 14, 2017
The Human Bomb – The American Airman Who Jumped From Stricken B-17 Without A Parachute… And Survived
August 14, 2017
Coming Home, 1968 – A Veteran’s True Story By Dan Daly
August 14, 2017
What I was asked to do – Marine Corps veteran served in aviation ordnance during World War II
August 14, 2017
Twelve Days Of Hard Fighting – The Australians Defeat The Japanese At Milne Bay In World War Two
August 14, 2017
Deep Cover: The Spy Who Brought Down An Empire in the Run-Up to World War One
August 14, 2017
This Heroic US Coastguard Signalman Sacrificed Himself To Save 500 Of His Fellows At Guadalcanal
August 14, 2017
100 Years On: Passchendaele in Color – Amazing Colorized Photos by Tom Marshall
August 13, 2017
Operation Overlord: The Greatest Amphibious Landing in History – Part 2
August 13, 2017
The Mongol Invasions of Japan and the Origin of the Word “Kamikaze”
August 13, 2017
When One Man Attacked The USA With His Militia at His Back – Pancho Villa
August 13, 2017
In Several Occasions, Hitler Refused to Face the Reality of his Military Situation
August 13, 2017
Iowa Class Battlecruisers – We Ask If America’s Most Powerful Dreadnoughts May Actually Have Been Battlecruisers
August 13, 2017
The Channel Dash – A Fast-Moving Naval Battle Of WWII
August 13, 2017
When A British Destroyer Rammed a German Cruiser In World War Two
August 13, 2017
Gurkha Lachhiman Gurung, Who Single-Handedly Fought Off At Least 30 Japanese Soldiers
August 13, 2017
Transportation equipment reactivated or repurposed for the World War II Homefront
August 13, 2017
When Allies Clashed in the Second World War
August 12, 2017
Three Ways Germany Weaponized Rockets in World War Two
August 12, 2017
Mary Edwards Walker: The Only Woman Ever to Be Awarded the Medal of Honor
August 12, 2017
“Hell Roaring Mike”: A Highly Respected American Commander At Sea
August 12, 2017
Alvin Cullum York: the Most Decorated Pacifist of the First World War
August 12, 2017
The Shortest Wars In Military History
August 12, 2017
The E.A. Stevens: A Ship Ahead of its Time
August 12, 2017
Building ‘Camp Swampy’ – Missouri military experience helped inspire iconic Beetle Bailey® comic strip
August 12, 2017
Echo of Infamy – The Little Known Second Attack on Pearl Harbor, March 4, 1942
August 12, 2017
Vinegar Joe Stilwell – a tough, brilliant, but difficult commander in World War Two
August 12, 2017
Sergeant First Class Robert Howard: Refused Two Medals of Honor
August 11, 2017
How the Allies Smashed the Nazi German Military Industry
August 11, 2017
Four Glaring Historical Errors In Otherwise Realistic War Games
August 11, 2017
Operation Thursday: Orde Wingate, Building Fortresses Behind Enemy Lines in WWII
August 11, 2017
A Sailor’s Life For Me – A day in the life of a Royal Navy Sailor from 1806
August 11, 2017
Abdol Hussein Sardari – the Iranian Schindler – Saved Many Lives in WW2
August 11, 2017
The US Camel Corps: An Abandoned 19th-Century Army Experiment
August 11, 2017
The First Yale Unit: College Students Form a Flying Squadron in 1916
August 11, 2017
Some of the Best Catchphrases Of The Ancient Spartans
August 11, 2017
WWII 1944: The Assault on Myitkyina was a Failure of Leadership
August 11, 2017
John D. Bulkeley’s Daring Evacuation of General Douglas Macarthur on a 77′ PT Boat
August 10, 2017
U-537, Cape Chidley & The Secret Weather Station WFL-26 – by Martin K.A. Morgan
August 10, 2017
Gino Merli: A Scrappy Kid from Scranton who was awarded the Medal of Honor
August 10, 2017
The Battle of Menin Road, 1917 – The third Ypres – A gargantuan effort in WW1
August 10, 2017
The bloody reputation of Passchendaele Ridge – Hell on Earth during the First World War
August 10, 2017
The Battle of the Ourcq – The Americans make their presence felt at the Marne
August 10, 2017
Amiens: the beginning of the Hundred Days Offensive – The Allies brought enormous resources to bear
August 10, 2017
Allied Attacks on Japanese “Hell Ships” Unintentionally Killed Thousands of POWs in WWII
August 10, 2017
“Dusting off memories” – Veteran shares story of service in Merchant Marines and U.S. Air Force
August 10, 2017
Operation Overlord: The Greatest Amphibious Landing in History – Part 1
August 09, 2017
Orde Wingate: The Most Controversial British Commander of WWII
August 09, 2017
When Irregular Forces Won The Day Against Professional Armies
August 09, 2017
Operation Cobra, 1944: Breaking Out of Normandy
August 09, 2017
Nations Which Were United As A Result Of Wars
August 09, 2017
Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Guerrilla Commander Who United Italy
August 09, 2017
WWI in East Africa, and the Legendary Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
August 09, 2017
The Awesome B-54 Ultrafortress, Boeing’s Best Piston Prop Bomber That Failed To Ever Fly
August 09, 2017
Operation Longcloth: The Burma Campaign of WWII – “The greatest guerrilla operation ever undertaken”
August 09, 2017
James H. Howard: The Only Fighter Pilot over Europe Awarded The Medal of Honor
August 09, 2017
Here are some of the Worst Friendly Fire incidents from before WWI
August 09, 2017
The Tragedy of the SS Cap Arcona – WWII’s Titanic
August 09, 2017
The Battle of Austerlitz – Napoleon’s Greatest Success
August 08, 2017
Purposely Going Down with His Ship, This WW2 Captain Was Awarded MoH And Saved Countless Lives
August 08, 2017
Joachim Peiper’s Atrocities Against Allied Troops: When Intimidation Failed
August 08, 2017
To Find A Lost WWII Buddy, Gene “Star Trek” Roddenberry Named A Villain After Him
August 08, 2017
“The M.S. Wilhelm Gustloff” – Book Review by Mark Barnes
August 08, 2017
The Story Behind “In Flanders Fields” – One Of The Most Famous War Poems Of History
August 08, 2017
The WW2 Battle Of North Cape, And The Utter Destruction Of The German Battleship Scharnhorst
August 08, 2017
The Incredible Story Of The Only American To Fight For Both The U.S. And Russia In WWII
August 08, 2017
The End of an Era – The Sack of Rome
August 08, 2017
Exaggeration And Angels – The Battle of Mons, 1914
August 08, 2017
Reinhard Heydrich, Head of the Gestapo, Who Hitler Called “The Man with the Iron Heart”
August 08, 2017
Hannibal of Carthage – The Greatest Opponent Rome Ever Faced
August 07, 2017
Battle of Busan Perimeter, The First Major Conflict In The Korean War
August 07, 2017
These are some of the most famous warhorses in military history
August 07, 2017
Napoleon Bonaparte: A military life – one of the most successful generals in military history
August 07, 2017
The largest American military operation of the First World War – The Meuse-Argonne Offensive
August 07, 2017
Great Disasters of the First World War
August 07, 2017
The Only Combat Soldier To Be Awarded The Victoria Cross Twice
August 07, 2017
The Only Combat Soldier To Be Awarded The Victoria Cross Twice
August 07, 2017
Great Wartime Medics from Military History
August 07, 2017
World Challenge Coins and The Koin Club Present: The Origins of the Military Challenge Coin
August 07, 2017
In WW2, The British Fought To Capture The Island Of Madagascar From The French
August 07, 2017
Napoleon – one of the most influential generals in history
August 07, 2017
Presumed Dead After Heroic Action In 1944, Air Force Academy Janitor Awarded Medal Of Honor From Reagan in 1984
August 07, 2017
Non-Weapon Technologies That Transformed Warfare
August 07, 2017
On Crucifix Hill, Captain Bobbie Brown Destroyed Three Enemy Bunkers And Was Awarded The Medal of Honor
August 07, 2017
The Rules of the Medieval Templar Knights
August 07, 2017
The “Glowing Angels” Who Saved Civil War Soldiers Turned Out To Be Luminous Parasitic Bacteria
August 07, 2017
The 1st Duke of Marlborough: Maybe The Biggest Ego In Military History
August 07, 2017
Outnumbered And With Taliban Overrunning The Base, Clinton Romesha Was Awarded MoH At The Battle Of Kamdesh
August 07, 2017
The Unlucky Soviet Nuclear Submarine K-19, Nicknamed “Hiroshima”
August 06, 2017
These Weapons Caused The Deaths Of The Soldiers Who Used Them
August 06, 2017
The Berlin Special Forces Team Tasked with Nuking the Soviet Union
August 06, 2017
Crazy Impractical German Inventions from World War Two
August 06, 2017
These Video Games Owe Their Success To The Wars Of The Past
August 06, 2017
The Allies’ Secret Mustard Gas Cargo Made the Attack on Bari an Even Worse Disaster
August 06, 2017
“I did my bit” – Veteran served as pilot with Army Air Corps during World War II
August 06, 2017
The Amazing Legacy of the Legendary F-16 Falcon – An American Icon
August 06, 2017
A Cameraman’s last picture – Tragedy as an Undetonated Bomb Explodes on the USS Oriskany (Watch)
August 06, 2017
The Dawn of the Submarine: U-21 sinks HMS Pathfinder
August 06, 2017
Myths Of The Montana-Class Battleships
August 05, 2017
Conrad Kyeser: The Leonardo da Vinci of War Machines
August 05, 2017
The Roman Military Camp: How Each One Was Established, Run, and Left Behind
August 05, 2017
Seven Years, A Hundred Thousand Men – Napoleon’s Peninsular War in Numbers
August 05, 2017
Fact Or Fiction – Finding out what Really Happened to the Knights Templar
August 05, 2017
The Oslo Report: How a German Scientist Gave Away Nazi Military Secrets and Why Britain Almost Ignored Him
August 05, 2017
Developed In War, These Well-Known Technologies Later Found A Place In Civilian Life
August 05, 2017
Mighty WW2 Warships – KMS Admiral Graf Spee in the Battle of the River Plate
August 05, 2017
Famous Celebrities Who Risked Their Lives For Their Countries In Wartime
August 05, 2017
These Movies And TV Shows Took Inspiration From By Real Wars
August 05, 2017
Nazi Zombies – A New Chapter in the Call of Duty Series
August 04, 2017
British Intelligence – Transforming Aerial Reconnaissance in World War Two
August 04, 2017
Tony Stein – The Inventive Warrior – An amazing American Marine in WW2
August 04, 2017
Battle of WWI merchant raiders: HMS Alcantara v SMS Greif
August 04, 2017
Persia – One of the most Fearsome Militaries of the Ancient World
August 04, 2017
The most decorated Marine in United States history – Chesty Puller, American Hero
August 04, 2017
Thaman Gurung, V.C. – A Brave Gurkha Gives His Life To Save His Comrades In WW2
August 04, 2017
On Sale From Platinum Fighter Sales – 1944 Hawker Hurricane Mk IV – Amazing Photos
August 04, 2017
The Officials Who Hindered Britain’s Readiness for World War Two
August 04, 2017
Learning the Luftwaffe’s Secrets: How Intelligence Gathering Shaped the Battle of Britain
August 04, 2017
The Reluctant Hero Who was awarded a Victoria Cross… Twice
August 04, 2017
The First Medal of Honor Recipient of WW2 Stood His Ground at Pearl Harbor
August 04, 2017
A Race for Superiority – The Sources of Military Intelligence in World War Two
August 03, 2017
The Haitian Revolution: A Rare and Brutal Act of Liberation
August 03, 2017
The Battle of Issus: A Close Call in a Campaign of Conquest
August 03, 2017
Rampaging through history with new book about the Vikings – Review by David D. Kindy
August 03, 2017
How One Man Seized Control of the Roman Empire and Founded a Dynasty
August 03, 2017
This Highly-Decorated American Hero Was Nearly Awarded A Third Medal of Honor
August 03, 2017
Seven Reasons Why Britain was Unprepared for World War Two
August 03, 2017
A Soldier’s Noble Quest to Return a War Medal to its Rightful Owner
August 03, 2017
Born to Fight – The Only Non-Commonwealth Recipient of the Victoria Cross
August 03, 2017
Terrible Punishments, Desperate Men – Desertion in the American Civil War
August 03, 2017
Vistula-Oder Offensive: The Offensive That Brought The Soviets To 70km From Berlin
August 02, 2017
The Battle of Edgehill, October 1642 – Both commanders hoped to force battle
August 02, 2017
Britain’s Sacrifice of Crete Preserved North Africa For The Allies In World War Two
August 02, 2017
Saving Sara Matuson: How 10 POWs Risked Their Lives to Save One Woman
August 02, 2017
At the Chosin Reservoir, Robert Kennemore Stepped On Two Grenades to Save His Marines
August 02, 2017
The One-Armed Warrior Who Was Awarded The Victoria Cross
August 02, 2017
Against All The Odds – Battles Where The Underdogs Won The Day
August 02, 2017
Canadian Aircrew Memorial in Brecon Beacons National Park
August 02, 2017
“That’s how they did things” – Veteran shares story of WWII Navy service in the Pacific
August 02, 2017
Inspiring Officers of the First World War – A Time of Great Bravery, Great Horror, and Great Sacrifice
August 02, 2017
Four British Intelligence Agents of World War Two and Their Very Different Civilian Lives
August 02, 2017
Massive Machines and Implements of War on the Battlefields of WWI
August 02, 2017
“It all happened so fast” – Army veteran shares story of WWII service, Central Missouri Honor Flight
August 02, 2017
Three Great August Events at the National World War I Museum and Memorial
August 01, 2017
Chaos In The Aftermath Of World War One: The German Revolution: 1918-1919
August 01, 2017
Hitler’s Island War – The Men who Fought for Leros – by Julie Peakman
August 01, 2017
The Civil War Photographer that Time Forgot: Alexander Gardner
August 01, 2017
Maynard Smith: Awarded the Medal of Honor And Then Demoted in WW2
August 01, 2017
Fog Of War – Often, the Allies Couldn’t Tell if Bombing Campaigns Were Working
August 01, 2017
21-Year-Old Bomber Pilot Who Died Saving His Comrades in WWII
August 01, 2017
Two Childhood Friends Helped Found an Elite WW2 Unit Then Died on the Same Day, Hundreds of Miles Apart
August 01, 2017
“The Battles of Batdorf” – Career Of Late National Guard Colonel Characterized By Political Strife
August 01, 2017
A Terrible Mistake – Why The USSR Ignored Britain’s Warnings of Impending Invasion
August 01, 2017
Harry Errington: The Only London Fireman to Earn a George Cross for Service in the Blitz
August 01, 2017
Bill Slim and WWII’s Forgotten Army – One Of The Most Successful Commanders Of The War
August 01, 2017
The First Thousand-Bomber Raid – Changing the WWII Air War
August 01, 2017
Hugh Seagrim, Who Fought WW2 from Behind Japanese Lines
July 31, 2017
Japanese-American Soldiers, The Nisei: The Purple Heart Battalion
July 31, 2017
Medal of Honor – One American’s Daring Escape from German Soldiers In WW2
July 31, 2017
The Crew Of The B-24 Liberator “Star Valley” – Downed Behind Enemy Lines
July 31, 2017
One Secret Agent Who Helped Pave the Way for D-Day
July 31, 2017
Godfrey Place: World War Two Submariner, Future Admiral, And Victoria Cross Recipient
July 31, 2017
The British POW Who Saved Hundreds of Jews from Death at Auschwitz
July 31, 2017
These WW2 Railwaymen Gave Their Lives to Prevent a Munitions Disaster
July 31, 2017
“IT AIN’T TOO BAD” – RIP Louis Kalil, Last Living Member who fought in WWII’s Most Decorated US Platoon at Battle of Bulge
July 31, 2017
The Raid on Alexandria – Military History of Italy in WW2
July 31, 2017
This Summer: Excavation of Famous WW2 Canadian Avro Lancaster in the Netherlands
July 30, 2017
Sergeant Major Stanley Hollis, Recipient of the Only Victoria Cross for D-Day
July 30, 2017
John Bridge: Heroic Bomb Disposal Expert of the Second World War
July 30, 2017
The Third Man to Receive a Victoria Cross for the War in Afghanistan
July 30, 2017
Kaiten: The Japanese Suicide Submarines in WWII
July 30, 2017
I-17 & the Shelling of the Bankline Oil Refinery – February 23, 1942 – by Martin K.A. Morgan
July 30, 2017
The Japanese Diplomat Who Saved Thousands of Jews During WWII
July 30, 2017
“For your tomorrow” – Missouri Veteran Describes Value of Lessons Gleaned from Naval Service
July 30, 2017
Eric Liddell, the Record Breaking Olympian Who Kept Hope Alive in a Japanese Prison Camp
July 30, 2017
Medal of Honor: He Took Out Three German Bunkers On His Own at the Battle of Crucifix Hill
July 30, 2017