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Broken Pots, Mending Lives The Archaeology of Operation Nightingale By Richard Osgood

Leave a Comment / Literature, Militaria, Museums, Reviews / By Ben Powers

Richard Osgood has written a wonderful chronicle of veteran rehabilitation through archaeology in “Broken Pots, Mending Lives”. Osgood shares his experience of assisting injured and ill servicemen and women for a decade by getting them involved in actively supporting digs throughout England and Western Europe. The nature of the archaeology projects is interesting, spanning …

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Warship Builders and the Liberty Factory

Articles, Editor's Choice, Museums, Reviews, World War I, World War II / By Christopher Eric (Moon) Mullins

Warship Builders – An Industrial History of U.S. Naval Ship Building, 1922-1945, by Thomas Heinrich (Naval Institute Press, 2021, 346pp, $29). Liberty Factory – The Untold Story of Henry Kaiser’s Oregon Shipyards, By by Peter J Marsh (Seaforth Publishing, 2021, 256PP, $40). Reviews by Don DeNevi Publisher’s Summary: Warship Builders is the first scholarly study …

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A Visit to the Das Boot (1981) set in Bavaria Film Studios

Films, Movies & Series, Museums / By ARGunners Magazine

Ever wanted to be inside U-96 of the masterpiece Das Boot (1981) yourself? It’s possible when you pay a visit to the Das Boot set located at the Bavaria Film Studios in München, Germany. Beneath you will be able to pay a photographic visit to the Das Boot set at the Bavara Film Studio, thanks …

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Solitude in the Shadow of Death: Battle of Peleliu

2 Comments / Articles, General Articles, Museums / By ARGunners Magazine

A personal and revising look at one of World War 2’s forgotten battles: The Battle of Peleliu I’ll be the first to admit that when I was planning my first trip to Peleliu, my limited knowledge of the battle that raged there during the autumn of 1944, came from recalling grainy re-runs of the eponymous …

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The Krasny Bor German War Cemetery and Bärenhöhle

Museums / By ARGunners Magazine

After visiting the Katyn War Cemetery, I began exploring the local forest in the Krasny Bor district in a search for Hitler’s headquarters, “Bärenhöhle,” which was located here during the war. However, Adolf Hitler never visited it and so it was actually used by the Staff of Army Group Centre (Heeresgruppe Mitte). After visiting the …

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Wandering at the silent Katyn War Cemetery

Museums / By ARGunners Magazine

The Katyn War Cemetery is a Polish war cemetery near Smolensk, Russia. Opened in 2000, the Katyn War Cemetery contains the remnants of the Katyn massacre victims and victims of the Soviet Great Purges in the 1930’s. The Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of Polish intelligentsia carried out by the NKVD in …

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Visiting the Military Technical Museum in Ivanovskoye

1 Comment / Museums / By ARGunners Magazine

In the village of Ivanovskoye, within the urban district of Chernogolovka, 40 km from Moscow, you will find a wonderful but little-known technical museum, called the Military Technical Museum. It was created through the passionate effort of vehicle enthusiasts several years ago and is situated on the former area of a Soviet pioneer camp. Despite …

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The Central Armed Forces Museum in Moscow, Russia

5 Comments / Museums / By ARGunners Magazine

The Central Armed Forces Museum is located in northern Moscow, near the Central Academic Theatre of the Russian Army. The first exhibition highlighted the military aspects of the Soviet Republic and the Red Army which was organized in Moscow in a building that currently houses the State Universal Store (GUM). It was opened by Vladimir …

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The Central Air Force Museum in Monino, Moscow

Articles, Aviation History, Editor's Choice, Museums, World War II / By ARGunners Magazine

The Central Air Force Museum first opened in 1960, on the Monino Air Force base close to Moscow, with a collection of 14 aircraft. Today, the Central Air Force Museum has more than 170 aircraft, together with some other exhibits on display in the museum buildings, making it one of the largest aviation museum in …

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The Citadelle and Québec City

Museums / By ARGunners Magazine

Canada and the US have been close allies for over a century. But it wasn’t always this way, and the Citadelle of Québec City and its surroundings are proof. The largest British fortification in North America, the Citadelle was constructed between 1820 and 1850. Having repelled American invasion during the War of 1812, the British …

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