Battlefield | War History

Helicopter Door Gunners are Awesome – Aerial Gunnery in UH-1Y

Watch the Marine Light Attack Training Squadron 303 in a UH-1Y Huey helicopter give close air support as part of a training exercise on February…

Giving Honor Where Honor Is Due In Athens, Alabama

A number of contributors and volunteers in Athens, Alabama intend to correct the omission of a soldier’s name killed in the Vietnam War in addition…

Appeal Brings A Respectful Crowd Out To Honor A British D-Day Hero

Many of those who attended the funeral of Second World War veteran Douglas Oswald Shallcross, 92, didn’t know him or his name perhaps only days…

Russian T-55 Battle Tank In India – “It Works Very Well”

The Indian cantonment of Aurangabad was given a Russian T-55 tank recently by the nation’s army in recognition for providing the greatest number of soldiers…

Tank Profile: The M26 Pershing – The First American Heavy Tank To Enter Service

As the Second World War was coming to its end, the technologies on the battlefields of Europe were becoming more and more complex. The tank…

The M5 Satan Flamethrowing Tank – A Terrifying Beast In World War Two

The M5 Stuart was a light tank and one that was utilized as a battle tank in the Pacific for a lot longer than in…

The Trench Gun of WW1 – Devastating Firepower At Close Range – The Famous Model 1897 Shotgun

Joris Nieuwint

The Trench Gun, the Winchester Model 1897, was an immensely popular shotgun. Between 1897 and 1956 more than a million were produced by Winchester Repeating…

Battle of Okinawa – Full Color Footage – One of the Bloodiest Battles Of The Pacific War

Throughout 1944, Allied forces drove the Japanese from the countries they had occupied in the Pacific. By the beginning of 1945, they were within striking…

WWI ‘Canary Babies’ Were Born With A Yellow Tint To Their Skin Because Their Mothers Worked In Munitions Factories

Ian Harvey

The last surviving ‘Canary Babies’ have told their story of how their skin was tinged yellow after their mothers worked in explosives factories in the…

This Cold War Mission Honed The Fine Reputation of The Tennessee “Fly Boys”

The National Guard of the United States is a reserve military force. The majority of the National Guard airmen and soldiers hold full-time civilian jobs while…

This WWII US Fighter Pilot Knows His Stuff, Shooting Down A ME-262 Jet Fighter – Color Video

  This is amazing U.S. gun camera footage of an American fighter firing at a German Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter. These Messerschmitts would normally…

There Are Only Two Airworthy Avro Lancasters Left In The World – Watch This Awesome Flyby From One Of Them

Watch the Canadian Warplane Heritage Center Lancaster “Vera” making an incredible low pass, make sure to turn up the volume! This particular Lancaster is known…