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6 Great Guns in the History of US Army

Images Used (Clockwise from top Left): (1) A Beretta M9 (2) US Marines on board the USS Blue Ridge and training with Beretta M9 pistols…

Bradley remains the land fighting vehicle of choice for US Army

Ian Harvey

The US Army’s land fighting vehicle is the Bradley and it has remained so for more than forty years. When it was first in use…

World War II photos of Mussolini’s death

Ian Harvey

Beverlee Larabee recently rediscovered three photographs of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini’s body on display after he and his mistress were executed on April 28, 1945.…

Pittsburgh World War I memorial has plaque stolen

Ian Harvey
Pittsburgh

A memorial to the US soldiers who took part in World War I in McKeesport, Pittsburgh has had its bronze plaque stolen. The marble memorial featured the…

Smyrna veteran finally receives his medals from service

Ian Harvey
Smyrna veteran

Sgt. Benjamin Jones received a Bronze Star Medal, a European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal and the Army Occupation Medal on Sunday after being out of the…

Detroit veteran pilot reunited with his World War Two B-26

Ian Harvey
B-26

The Fantasy of Flight Museum in Polk City, Florida hosted World War Two veteran Barney Wasowicz in November to reunite him with his Martin B-26…

US Army’s best weaponry

Ian Harvey
best weaponry

With some of the world’s best weaponry, technology, finance and capability to deliver it, the US has some of the best cutting edge armory. Some…

Nuts! Gen. McAuliffe and the Battle of the Bulge

Ian Harvey
McAuliffe

In Hitler’s final push for victory, the Battle of the Bulge involved more than 610,000 American troops from December 1944 to January 1945, with more…

ARTILLERY SCOUT – Review by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes
ARTILLERY SCOUT

I’ve read a fair number of Great War stories but this is the first one about the experiences of an American soldier to come into…

ONE HELL OF A WAR

Phil Hodges
ONE HELL OF A WAR

ONE HELL OF A WAR; ONE HELL OF AN INTERVIEW. Or something like that… Those of you who read our review of One Hell Of…

Animal casualties of war

Ian Harvey
War

It wasn’t only humans who experienced pain and suffering during WWI.  Animals, including dogs, horses, and other equines, became casualties as well. War Horse, a…

Propaganda by Hollywood’s Greats in War documentaries

Ian Harvey
War documentaries

During the Second World War some of Hollywood’s greatest movie producers and directors produced propaganda movies and presented to the public as authentic documentaries. The…