8+ hour, 37+ min ago  (270+ words) by Max Gr'nwald | Jun 19, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments In 1942, with the tide of the Pacific war already turning against them, Japanese planners sketched out an aircraft of breathtaking ambition. It would take off from Japanese soil, fly across the…...

8+ hour, 11+ min ago  (84+ words) Evalyn Lindsey and other costs of war For over a year, I wrote about the 18 young men from Buena Vista College whose lives were cut short during the Second World War. But that number " Closeups at the Farmers Market Fonda…...

14+ hour, 39+ min ago  (241+ words) by Tamika Johnson | Jun 19, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments On a Sunday morning in April 1943, sixteen American fighter planes skimmed the surface of the Pacific so low their propellers feathered the wave tops. They flew for the better part of…...

8+ hour, 33+ min ago  (228+ words) by Connor Kerr | Jun 19, 2026 | History & Legends | 0 comments As the Third Reich's fortunes collapsed, its engineers reached for ever more extreme ideas. Some were genuinely brilliant. Some were merely enormous. And a few belonged squarely in science fiction. Hitler's faith in…...

8+ hour, 21+ min ago  (197+ words) by Max Gr'nwald | Jun 19, 2026 | History & Legends | 0 comments Launching a torpedo is the easy part. The hard part is what happens next: keeping a one-tonne self-propelled bomb running dead straight and at exactly the right depth, through the chaos of the…...

20+ hour, 58+ min ago  (599+ words) US President Donald Trump on Thursday said that he believes there are "no limits" to his ability to exert power, denying that he wasn't in any way humbled by the three-month war with Iran, which had far-reaching effects across the…...

23+ hour, 11+ min ago  (397+ words) US President Donald Trump has dismissed suggestions that the recent Iran war exposed the limits of American power, insisting instead that the conflict demonstrated the strength of the United States and his own leadership. Speaking on The Axios Show, Trump…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (597+ words) A 100-year-old Marine just experienced an incredible reunion. Discover how historians tracked down the exact armored vehicle that saved his life. A 100-year-old World War II veteran was recently reunited with the tank he drove during the Battle of Iwo…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago  (570+ words) World War II produced plenty of famous tanks, planes, and ships. It also produced some deeply strange vehicles, some of which made it to the battlefield. Others never got past the prototype stage, but they still show how far military…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (430+ words) The old man quietly surveyed his surroundings as his mind carried him back 71 years to World War II and his first trip to Kentucky. He remembered the stately terminal building at Bowman Field. " But the barracks and other wooden buildings…...