T-34-85 being pulled out of the Mud in Poland
Poligon in the Biedrusk belongs to centrum land forces training. Notice that this is only a tank crust. Probably in the 70/80 years the last century was used as a…
Rare WWII German Enigma machine sold for £149,000
A rare German World War II Enigma encryption machine has been sold at Sotheby’s for a total amount of £149,000 (ca. $232,000), doubling the estimated price of £50,000 – £70,000. The auctioned Enigma was produced by Heimsoeth…
World War II Sicilian Campaign Online Interactive Released
During the Sicilian Campaign of World War II, Allied forces conquered the island, which dominates the Mediterranean Sea, in a matter of weeks. This secured vital shipping lanes, provided bases,…
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) 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…
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…
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…
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…
TRAILER: Kokoda 39th Battalion – Australian War Movie
War drama inspired by a true story. A small platoon of reservist Australian soldiers have been sent on an advanced patrol up the Kokoda trail – a critical supply line…
Unknown Australian WWII soldier laid to rest in Indonesia
Assistant Minister for Defence, Stuart Robert, has led tributes for an Australian soldier, who has been farewelled in Indonesia more than 70 years after giving his life in World War…
Special Forces Legend James N. Rowe was saved by his beard
Col. James “Nick” Rowe without the beard that saved his life. (Credits: US Army) Col. James “Nick” Rowe played a large role in designing the modern training programs for Special…
Diary of a WWI Soldier – Rifleman William Eve
Rifleman William Eve, 1/16th (County of London) Battalion (Queen’s Westminster Rifles), The London Regiment, 1914. (Credits: NAM) The pocket diary entries of Rifleman William Eve starkly reveal what daily life was…
William Butler: Deserving the Medal of Honor for WWI
The headline of the Baltimore Afro-American took note, “Trenton Has Nothing on Salisbury.” And the newspaper boasted, “Trenton, New Jersey, may have her Needham Roberts, but it takes Salisbury, Maryland,…
REVIEW: Leadership In The Shadows by SGM Kyle Lamb
REVIEW: What do Sun Tzu (“The Art of War), Julius Caesar (“The Gallic Wars”), Antoine Henri Jomini (“The Art of War”), Carl Von Clausewitz (“On War”) and Erwin Rommel (“Infanterie greift an”)…
TRAILER: Little Boy (2015) – The Story Reveals The Indescribable Love
A seven-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father…
