A Falkirk soldier’s adventures on the front line in WW1
Towards the end of last year The Falkirk Herald included a number of articles about the outbreak of the Great War – some were harrowing stories about local men who…
Secret of World War II: B-17 Lady Jeannette
A series of articles, laying out the true events behind the creation of: “The Best Kept Secret Of World War Two!” In December, 1945, when it became known that General Patton…
WATCH: Fallschirmjager FG42 Rifle
The German Fallschirmjäger FG42 rifle was a very impressive design, managing to meet a very strict set of performance criteria. The first production model in particular was exceptionally light and…
Missing SB2C Helldiver since WWII Discovered
A United States Navy Curtiss SB2C Helldiver aircraft lost in World War II and missing for over 70 years was recently found resting in the tropical waters of the Republic…
Wall to mark Lord Kitchener WWI deaths to be built
A COMMEMORATIVE wall is to be built in memory of over 700 men who died when their warship, carrying Lord Kitchener on a secret mission, was sunk off Orkney during…
New Images of HMAS Syndey II confirm fate killing 645
An expedition to survey the historic World War II shipwrecks of HMAS Sydney II and the German raider HSK Kormoran has produced new high resolution images and a video from the…
The British Midget Submarine Attack on Battleship Tirpitz
“My first thought that she was so pretty, it seemed an awful shame to have to blow her (Battleship Tirpitz) up.” — John Lorimer, sub-lieutenant, X-6 mini-submarine By the summer of 1943,…
Two WWII Purple Hearts of Fallen Soldiers Return Home
The Purple Heart Medal of Pfc. James T. Hull is embraced by his brother, retired Command Sgt. Maj. Cecil Hull during a ceremony on July 24, 2015. (Credits: Maj. Randall Stillinger)…
Auschwitz Bookkeeper Oskar Gröning sentenced to 4 years
Oskar Gröning in uniform as an SS-Rottenführer. 94 year old Oskar Gröning, a former Auschwitz death camp guard, has been convicted by a German court for his role in the…
World War II Spitfire unearthed in Slamannan field
Imagine you’re in your prime, young and fit, plenty of prospects with a life full of hope and ambition ahead of you. You have a loving family of both parents…
