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Interview with Wolf-Dietrich Jaehn. Jaehn served in the Afrikakorps during World War II and ended the war as Lieutenant and Company Commander of the Stabskompanie/ schwere Panzer-Abteilung 507. We often…

It has been 50 years since two Avro Lancaster bombers flew side by side. The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum’s Avro Lancaster, VeRA, flew from Hamilton, Ontario to meet her British…

In the summer of 1943, American and Canadian forces launched an amphibious assault on the north Pacific island of Kiska, in order to seize the last enemy strongholds on U.S. Soil…

Argunners Magazine published a series of amazing WWII photographs recently uncovered from the archives of General Charles Day Palmer, who was a four-star General. Most of the photographs were confidential photographs taken…

All snipers are marksmen, but not all marksmen are snipers. The sniper operates alone, distinguished from his fellow marksmen by the fact that he doesn’t have the company of his…

Perhaps nothing better symbolizes the difference between conventional and Special Operations units than that most personal of weapons, the knife. Reflecting a dual-purpose need, the conventional force standard issue knife is…

Invented in the 1820s by Louis Daguerre and Charles Marie Bouton, of daguerreotype photography fame, the diorama is a three-dimensional model of a realistic scene, frequently displayed against a painted…

DICE, an Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:EA) studio, has announced Battlefield™ 1 on May 6, 2016. Only in Battlefield 1 will you bring a horse to a tank fight and squad-up…

When the US entered WWII, submachine guns were in short supply and high demand. Much of the production of Thompson guns was being purchased by the UK, and what guns…

Peter During, a SAAF Spitfire Pilot during World War II, was shot down early 1945 and taken POW.. Only he convinced his captors to become his Prisoners! Peter’s service began…