Donation stops WWII Dambusters Pilot from having to sell his medals
The last surviving Dambusters pilot is gifting his medals to the Auckland Museum of Transport and Technology. 95 year old veteran Les Munro had been planning to auction off his medals to benefit…
World's Unluckiest man: Tsutomu Yamaguchi – Survivor of two Atomic Bombs
Atomic Cloud over Nagasaki. (Credits: Wikimedia Commons) On August 9, 1945 a Boeing B-29 Superfortress nicknamed “Bockscar”, piloted by Major Charles Sweeney, took off from Tinian’s North Field just before dawn around,…
2Lt. John R. Pedevillano receives Presidential Unit Citation
Sen. John McCain and Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Larry O. Spencer congratulate 2nd Lt. John Pedevillano, a WWII Army Air Corps B-17 bombardier, during a ceremony in…
Remains of WWII Hero MOH 1Lt Bonnyman to be buried sunday
Lead archaeologist Kristen N. Baker of History Flight, Inc., carefully exposes the remains of Medal of Honor recipient, First Lt. Alexander Bonnyman Jr., in May. (Credits: Clay Bonnyman Evans/History Flight,…
Veteran Remembering Tarawa during WWII Fights Back Tears
World War II Veteran Bob Ashburn recalls witnessing the gruesome aftermath of the Bloody Battle of Tarawa as an 18-year-old teenager. Tarawa was such a bloody battle and an often…
TRAILER: Son of Saul (Saul fia) (2015)
Son of Saul is set in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in 1944, and one Hungarian Jewish prisoner named Saul (played by Géza Röhrig) is a member of the Sonderkommando, a group…
The Harlem Hellfighters: The Most Storied African-American Combat Unit of World War I
On the Western Front of World War I, death did not discriminate. Artillery screaming towards the trenches treated men of all color the same. But the soldiers of the 92nd…
REVIEW: Sturmgeschütz III on the Battlefield
BOOK: Sturmgeschütz III on the Battlefield (Volume 3) by Mátyás Pánczél (ISBN:9638962399) PeKo Publishing Kft. (based in Hungary) specialize themselves publishing hardcover books that cover various Tanks of World War II.…
Vietnam: Nightmare World of a Wounded Soldier
America’s press, public, and even Congress paid relatively little attention to the experience of the wounded soldier during the Vietnam War. Weekly casualty reports from U.S. headquarters in Saigon, South…
WATCH: Reinhard Hardegen of U-123 & U-147 Interview
In June 2015 an interesting interview has unearthed on YouTube of U-Boat Commander Reinhard Hardegen, who is the last living U-Boat captain. Korvettenkapitän Hardegen was born on 18 March 1913 and is…
