Why Is Stanislav Petrov Considered The Most Important Person In Modern History?

Share Share Tweet the annals of history, certain individuals stand out as game-changers, their actions shaping the course of events and safeguarding the…

Jacob Miller: The Remarkable Soldier Who Survived a Headshot

Share Share Tweet the annals of military history, there are tales of extraordinary resilience and the triumph of the human spirit amidst the…

Two Mass Graves of 13th-century Crusaders

Share Share Tweet Archaeologists in Lebanon recently made a significant discovery, uncovering two mass graves that held the remains of 25 Crusaders who…

Operation Gomorrah: The First of the Firestorms

A Royal Air Force Lancaster bomber over Hamburg during Operation Gomorrah. Note the flares surrounding the bomber’s silhouette.  Strategic bombing was developed during…

Hitler’s Precision-Guided Bombs: Fritz X & Hs 293

Perhaps the most memorable depictions of recent conflict are the videos showing small targets hit by bombs guided by lasers or the Global…

The Chopping Block: The Fate of Warplanes after WWII

A similar fate awaited many outmoded fighter planes. P-39 Airacobras, P-40 Warhawks, and F4F and FM-2 Wildcats were nearly worthless as far as…

World War II Female WASP Pilot: Proud to Serve Her Country

Larned, Kansas, native Lucile Doll Wise knows better than most what Women’s History Month – she was part of history, during WW II.…

Why D-Day?

Top Photo: Coast Guard-manned USS LST-21 unloads British Army tanks and trucks onto a Rhino barge during the early hours of the invasion,…

Panhard M3 VDA :Air defence variant armed with twin Hispano-Suiza 820 SL 20mm

BTR Panhard Defense M3 equipped with a turret armed 7,62-mm machine gun The M3 armored personnel carrier was created by the French company…

Beaver Dick Leigh, Mountain Man of the Tetons

The pack train moved slowly through the remaining snowdrifts of late spring in the Tetons, heading for the mountain valley ahead. The buckskin…