Hello, Old Friend – Veteran From Yom Kippur War Meets His Former Battle Tank
An unusual reunion – a man and his tank. Yuval Neria, a tank commander during the Yom Kippur War in 1973, now a professor at…
92 Year Old World War II Veteran Fights Off Knife-Wielding Robber
Mark Curtis is a 92-year-old veteran of World War II. He is also a hero, honored by the Tulsa County Sherriff’s Office for fighting off…
6 Daring Assassination Attempts on Hitler
While Adolf Hitler garnered much approval in his early days of leadership, many Germans soon began to see the folly of keeping such a man…
Valentine Baker’s Last Stand At The Battle of Tashkessen
War History Online Presents This Piece, Kindly Contributed By Guest Blogger Frank Jastrzembski – www.frankjastrzembski.com Nearly 3,000 miles from the coastline of his native England,…
This WWII Shipping Disaster Was Deadlier Than Titanic And Lusitania Combined
The Titanic was one of the greatest maritime tragedies and the sinking of the Lusitania was a wartime catastrophe. Both events, while disastrous, lost far…
WW2: Accidental Detonation of 4,000 Tons of Explosives In England Killed 70 and Scarred the Land Forever
On November 27th, 1944, seismologists in Switzerland at first thought it was an earthquake, hardly guessing the seismograph recorded the effects of a massive explosion…
Navy Taking Back its Relics From North Jersey Naval Museum
About 100 antiques on loan from the Navy are being demanded back from the New Jersey Naval Museum in Hackensack N.J. to prevent further decay…
Epic: Recovering The Last Luftwaffe Float Plane From A Fjord In Norway 70 Years After It Sank
The twin-engine three-seater float plane was originally bought by the Norwegian Navy Air services in 1939. It was used by the Norwegians against the invading German…
The First World War As A Backdrop In New Game: Battlefield 1
Electronic Arts and DICE on Oct. 21 released the big production Battlefield 1, the most ambitious since the series appeared in 2002. Battlefield 1 exposes…
Little-Known Military Machines: Britain’s WWII Heavy Assault Tank
The British designed a tank especially for use in World War 2: The Heavy Assault Tank aka Assault Gun aka the Tortoise. However, this tank…
Exciting WWII Tales Of The Cromwell Tank (Watch)
War memories are sometimes teeming with amazing anecdotes, and in this video, Lindybeige recounts two of them and also talks a little about the British WW2…
German WWII Submarine Wreck Is Leaking Mercury Into Ocean
German U-boat U-864 sunk off the coast of Fedje, a Norwegian island, during World War II. The submarine was carrying 67 tons of mercury. When…