Tiger Day Autumn and its sister event, Tiger Day Spring, are dedicated to Tiger 131, a German Tiger I tank that was captured ...

Buckler’s Hard is a small riverside hamlet in New Forest, and it was once one of the busiest private shipyards of the 1700s.

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Over time, there have been some odd vehicles seen on battlefields, but few were as eye-catching as the Type B Bus “Pigeon Loft.” The Allied forces prominently used the vehicles during World War I.

Canadian soldiers were among the most ruthless on the battlefield during World War I, especially when it came to facing the Germans.

The Great Purge, also known as the Great Terror, was Stalin’s way of dealing with political opposition. Brutal and without mercy, he instigated the greatest political repression campaign in the ...

Known for portraying young Forrest Gump in the movie of the same name, Michael Conner Humphreys became an infantryman in the US Army.

A napalm strike erupts in a fireball near U.S. troops on patrol in South Vietnam, 1966 during the Vietnam War.

During WWII, the United States Military made over 1.5 million Purple Heart medals in anticipation of a colossal casualty rate from the planned invasion of Japan during Operation Downfall. However, ...

The Pacific Islands are still littered with plane wrecks from the fighting there. Planes that crash landed on remote locations or sunken in the lagoons around the island can still be visited today.

The USSR's Duga Radar system was designed to serve as an early warning system against Intercontinental ballistic missiles. It was dubbed the "Woodpecker." ...

Tupolev Tu-95, 1983. (Photo Credit: CORBIS / Getty Images) In 1950, just five years after the conclusion of the Second World War, a request was issued to Soviet aircraft manufacturers for a new bomber ...