History is one big treasure box full of unforgettable moments, incredible people, encounters, places, events, incidents, you name it. But with time flying at the pace of a hadron collider, they easily slip under the dusty blanket of time and oblivion.
View of two American soliders in the fore as, behind them, a UH-1D Tactical Transport helicopter takes off after unloading troops during Operation White Wing, near Bong Son, Vietnam, February 19, 1966. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)
The H225M (previously known as EC 725) medium-sized (11t), twin-engine helicopter is a member of the Cougar helicopter family developed by Eurocopter. The helicopter has been developed in the milit…
Women get flustered under fire. They're too fragile, too emotional. They lack the ferocity required to take a life. They can't handle pain. They're a distraction, a threat to cohesion, a provocative tease to close-quartered men. These are the sort of myths you hear from people who oppose the U.S. military's evolving new rules about women in combat, who have earned medals fighting alongside men, the war stories they tell don't sound a thing like myths
Did you know that you can use online tools to gather information for official military records? All you need is some information about your veteran to discover fascinating details from their service records.
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Join Greg Carlwood of The Higherside Chats podcast as he hosts Mary Joyce. A long time journalist and author who has written several books including, “Cherokee Little People Were Real” and“Underground Military Bases Hidden in the North Carolina Mountains”, Mary is also editor of the website Skyships Over Cashiers, which among other things, details UFO […]
The BUFF Is Here The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress has participated in numerous battles and has gone down in history as one of the most reliable war birds ever built. With continuous support and upgrades to its system, we'll be seeing more of the BUFF in the next 20 years or so. Here are some inter
Best 27 Pictures Of Women Fighter Pilots From Around The World.
War gets a new look in THE DIVINE by Asaf and Tomer Hanuka and Boaz Lavie
The nameless Marine stares blankly into the distance, his vacant eyes peeled inhumanly wide. According to the artist, he’s a combat veteran of both the enemy and tropical disease.
Wyatt Outlaw was a lawman and Graham politician born in 1820. His death would be the catalyst of North Carolina's Kirk-Holden War. Military Service and Politics With the outbreak of the American Civil War, Outlaw served in the 2nd Regiment U.S. Colored Cavalry between 1864 and 1866. Outlaw saw action throughout Virginia. Following the ...
A booby trap is a device set up to be triggered by an unsuspecting victim. As the word trap implies, they often have some form of bait designed to lure the victim towards it. The device is triggere…
The 1942 memo in which Ian Fleming set out his idea for a secret commando unit to steal codes, charts and military equipment from the Germans.
A selection of 100 plan view, aircraft silhouettes sorted by shape.
Joel Bellviure, the main colorizer at Cassowary Colorizations, started this project out of a desire to learn through historical rediscovery.
Find the best war board games. What is a wargame? Is any game with a war theme a wargame? Click here for the answers plus our picks for the best war board games out there, including strategy war games.
Even if you didn't inherit a photo of your Civil War ancestor, there are several sources you can use to find his physical description.
The Canadian War Museum is Canada's national museum of military history. Located in Ottawa, Ontario, the museum covers all facets of Canada's military past, from the first recorded instances of death by armed violence in Canadian history several hundred years ago to the country's most recent involvement in conflicts. It includes major permanent exhibitions on wars that have been fought on Canadian soil, the total wars of the twentieth century, the Cold War and peace support operations abroad, and Canada's history of honouring and remembrance. There is also an open storage area displaying large objects from the Museum's collection, from naval guns to tanks, from motorcycles to jet aircraft. The exhibits depict Canada's military past in its personal, national and international dimensions, with special emphasis on the human experience of war and the manner in which war has affected, and been affected by, Canadians' participation.
In this map specially prepared for MHM, we chart the last journey of the Bismarck in May 1941. Here the course of the Bismarck is depicted in black, and the ...
