French tank designers had an ambitious idea before World War I: What if they could create a vehicle with the protection of an…
Top Photo: Evolution of the military watch, from left: 1944 Bulova A-11, 1952 Bulova A-17, 1969 Hamilton GG-W-113 Pilots watch In the years leading…
Top Photo: Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" of the 8th Air Force releasing load of incendiary bombs over Oscherleben, Germany. Printed December 1943. Source:…
Edward Martinez’s journey as a Sergeant with the 158th Infantry Regiment took him from his small town in Arizona to the jungles of…
Top Photo: TheUSS Arizona burning after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. National Archives NAID: 520601 On the morning of December 7, 1941…
Top Photo: Heinrich Himmler lectures to a group of SS officers (the image is taken from an album of SS photographs). Date (sometime…
Top Photo: People being forced out of the bunkers and marching at gunpoint to the deportation area. This photo was taken as part…
Military drop tanks are attached under fighters and bombers, giving them extra fuel to extend their range, but easily falling away if the…
The Panzerfaust had limited range, limited stopping power, and required brave troops to draw deeply into a tank’s range to kill it, but…
In 1969, during the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, a student protester set himself on fire and triggered mass protests across the country, slowing…