Former World War II Tank Commander Went on to Become a Race Car Driver
David Render was a tank commander in World War II who fought at Gold Beach during the Normandy invasion in 1944. Although tank commanders averaged…
Awesome! Red Army War Sleds With Airplane Engines & Guns!
The Winter War of 1939, between Finland and the Soviet Union, convinced the Soviets to develop more effective tactics in the so-called “General Winter” conditions.…
Man Finds World War II Love Letters in Shed
Derrick Heckman found a box of papers in the back of a shed. “I found this box,” Heckman said. “I saw these letters with this unique…
100 Year Old WWII Veteran Takes To The Skies In WWII Biplane
Cliff Crozier, a veteran of WWII, turned one hundred years old on the 6th of September 2015, in a little town near Liverpool in England. Friends…
This Family Survived Being Torpedoed By A German Submarine in World War II
Ray Downs was sailing with his family on the freighter Heredia on May 19th, 1942. He was eight years old at the time, and they…
WWII Veterans Reunite After 70 Years
Robert Carter, 91, was looking through a Legion Magazine earlier this year when he spotted someone he hadn’t seen for 70 years. “Oh I recognized…
U.S. House of Representatives Passes Resolution Requesting Increased Restitution from Germany
A resolution requesting that Germany increases its restitution support for Holocaust survivors recently passed in the U.S. House of Representatives. The resolution was sponsored by…
94-year-old WWII Veteran Skydives for Birthday
Doug Curtis was a tail gunner for the Royal Air Force during World War II. Back then, he was handed a parachute and told that…
A 72-Year Old WWII Torpedo Bomber With Pilots’ Remains Was Found By Scientists
An American aircraft, a TBM-1C Avenger, missing since July 1944 was recently located in the waters surrounding the Pacific Island nation of Palau by Project…
90-year-old Veteran Receives Honorary Diploma
Luke Walsh dropped out of Montclair Catholic High School – Immaculate Conception High School – in 1942 to serve in the US Navy during World War…
Missing Soldiers, Mistakenly Buried With The Enemy, Identified and Returned Home
Pfc. Lawrence S. Gordon was killed during World War II. His remains were mistakenly turned over by the U.S. military to the Germans and buried…
Pilots Honor Crashed Comrade at Airshow With Missing Man Formation
Pilots from an airshow at the American Airpower Museum performed a “missing man formation” salute to the pilot whose World War II plane crashed into…