931st ARG mourns loss of WWII Veteran and Friend
The 931st Air Refueling Group mourns the loss of a true patriot and friend, Mr. Adrian Marlin, who passed away earlier this week. Marlin enlisted in the Army Air Corps…
Voices of First World War – First Day of the Somme
http://www.argunners.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Podcast-23_-The-First-Day-Of-The-Somme.mp3 And there wasn’t one of us in our battalion that ever got to the German lines. You couldn’t! It was absolutely impossible… The Battle of the Somme is one…
Haunting images of Plane Wrecks rotting away
Nestled in one man’s back garden, in Newbury/ Ohio, is this collection of more than 30 military jets – salvaged by Walter Soplata over a 50-year period. He bought the planes amid…
TRAILER: Dad's Army (2016)
Dad’s Army is an upcoming 2016 British war comedy film, based on the BBC television sitcom Dad’s Army: It is 1944 and World War II is reaching its climax. The…
Nippo Maru Wreck – Imperial Japanese Navy
Hit and sunk by three 500 pound bombs in its stern, the Nippo Maru was a 106m (350ft)Â transport ship mostly carrying water. Originally a passenger and cargo freighter, she was…
Voices of First World War – Life in the Trenches
http://www.argunners.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Podcast-20_-Trench-Life.mp3 That bloody great thing’d come up there and stand up on its back legs and gnaw something like that, you know. I used to line the sights up and…
1Lt. Clayton A. Nattier, B-17G Pilot veteran, receives medals
A bomber pilot held as a prisoner of war during World War II visited the Air Reserve Personnel Center to receive his POW Medal among various other medals, then took…
USAAF images of B-24, A-26 & A-20 in England during WWII
Argunners Magazine is fortunate enough to feature its readers with some beautiful images from the United States Army Air Force, taken in England during WWII. Most of the photographs depict…
Remains of WWII P-47D Pilot Edward F. Barker Found
The Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced on June 23, 2015 that a U.S. serviceman, missing from World War II, has been identified and is being returned to…
San Francisco Maru Wreck in Truk Lagoon
One of the deeper wrecks in the lagoon sitting upright from 45 to 63m (145-205ft), it is unique as there is not much growth due to its depth. It is also…
