WWII commandos to receive Gold Medal
Thomas W. Hope, 1945 (Photo: Democrat and Chronicle) Two Rochester natives will be honored Tuesday in Washington for their service as members of an elite commando unit during World War…
WWII US Aircraft Carrier USS Independence discovered 'amazingly intact'
The new U.S. Navy light aircraft carrier USS Independence (CVL-22) in San Francisco Bay (USA) on 15 July 1943. Note that she still carries Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers. Before…
Incredible video shows replica Spitfire landing perfectly gear-up
On July 19, a pilot carried out a perfect emergency landing of his replica Spitfire without landing gear. The aircraft was flying above Sibson Airfield when the pilot radioed airfield bosses…
WW1 Remount Camp prepares for War Horse Statue
A life-sized statue of a war horse is to be unveiled in July in Romsey, at the site of the World War I remount camp in the Hampshire town. The…
World War II Wreck of the “Hawk of Kastellorizo”
The experienced technical scuba diver Asım Karsçakar from Turkey made some very interesting underwater photographs of an Italian World War II bomber SM-79 “Sparviero” (“Hawk”). “I dived this aircraft back in…
Spitfire Pilot Lt. Henry Lacy Smith was KIA in Normandy 1944
Flight Lieutenant Henry Lacy Smith was born in the Sydney suburb of Sans Souci in 1917 and worked in the textiles industry. He wanted to fly, and privately undertook flight…
Combat cameramen won Oscar for covering Battle of Tarawa
First Row: Tech. Sgt. Carlos Steele, Cpl. Jack Ely, Sgt Ferman H. Dixon, Staff Sgt. John F. Ercole, Cpl. E. Newcomb, and Sgt. Ernest J. Diet. Second Row: Pvt. Chris…
Horrors of World War I brought in colorized images
The featured photographs, colorized by Benjamin Thomas, Doug Banks, Dave Chandler, Frederic Duriez, Paul Reynolds and Royston Leonard, capture in vivid detail the horror, devastation and sadness on the battlefields of World War…
Last Dambuster Pilot, Les Munro, has passed away
Les Munro, former World War II Dambuster pilot, has passed away this morning on 4 August 2015 at Tauranga Hospital, New Zealand at the age of 96. Munro spend his last…
TR Commemorates the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War
The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) transits alongside the guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy (CG 60) and the Military Sealift Command dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Carl Brashear…
