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

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

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On the surface, the First Crusade looks like something with a simple cause – the hatred of one religious group for another. In reality, the causes were far more complex. A wide range of factors led to ...

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.

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

Everyone knows the word “Nazi” and the evil it entails. World War II is a huge part of our history, with Hitler’s Nazi Germany being remembered as the villains. As such, it is not surprising that the ...

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 early 20th century saw two major wars fought within only a few decades, and since most of the world’s powers were taking part, the weaponry used advanced rapidly. This was certainly true of ...