The Consolidated B-24 Liberator, along with its sleeker brother the B-17, was the workhorse heavy bomber of the United States Army Air Forces.…
The German Pz.Kpfw. IV began its career as an auxiliary vehicle. It was intended to be a support tank to the main German…
On January 11, 1934, following specifications laid down by Heinz Guderian, the Army Weapons Department drew up plans for a medium tank with…
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Mel Gibson’s new film “Hacksaw Ridge” tells the story of a World War II soldier, Desmond Doss, who won…
Many may consider their jewelry necessary but for one Colorado man, his was, quite literally, a lifesaver. According to police in Commerce City,…
Nicolas Appert (c1750 – 1841) was a chef, confectioner and distiller when the French Revolution broke out. During the year of 1795, the…
In 1910, Mare Samuella Cromer, a rural schoolteacher in South Carolina, organized a girl’s tomato club so females aged 9 to 20 could…
The Map of Hell (in Italian La Mappa dell’Inferno ) by Botticelli – regularly called The Abyss of Hell or La Voragine dell’Inferno – …
Société Kellner was a French luxury coachbuilder run by Georges Kellner. During World War I, the company turned to producing SPAD VII, S.XI, and…
In the 1930s, Japanese aviation began to make strides toward closing the technological gap with the Western World. In 1938, the Aeronautical Research…