In honour of the 70th Anniversary of RAF No. 617 Squadron’s Operation Chastise (aka. The Dambuster Raids) vintage aviation photographer Martin Keen of the U.K. forwarded this image of the mighty Avro Lancaster. This particular bird (Lancaster NX611) sits on the runway at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre at East Kirkby. The museum is dedicated to […]
The world of archeology was buzzing last October when an excavation in Guatemala unearthed what experts believe is the long sought final resting place of the Mayan warrior Queen K’abel. The 1,500 year old tomb was discovered amid a larger dig in what was once the ancient Mayan city of El Perú-Waka. In addition to […]
Thanks to Sean J. McNeill for providing this picture of the guard at Fort Henry in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Established on the shore of Lake Ontario during the war 1812 to defend Upper Canada from American invasion, the small harbour outpost was expanded into a formidable stone fortress in the decades following the conflict. Until […]
Take a handful of GIs, a group of surrendered German soldiers and some high-ranking French officials (along with their wives and mistresses), arm them all to the teeth and let them team up to defend a medieval Austrian castle against an onslaught SS storm troopers. While it sounds like the premise of a far-fetched Quentin […]
Residents of Virginia Beach, Va. may soon be hearing the distinctive growl of twin Rolls Royce Merlin engines overhead, thanks to that city’s Military Aviation Museum. According to a story published earlier this week on Warbird News, the historical flight center, which is located about 200 miles south of Washington, DC, will unveil a fully […]
Germany may not be a country noted for seafaring swashbucklers a la Francis Drake or Henry Morgan, but it can lay claim to Karl von Muller, the commander of the light cruiser SMS Emden. During the opening weeks of the First World War, Muller, his ship and its crew of 360 waged an astonishing piratical […]
On July 4, 1776, 13 of Great Britain’s North American colonies openly declared independence from the mother country. And while New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Virginia and a host of others joined in the rebellion, one future U.S. state was notably absent from the patriot role call – Vermont. Situated east of New York and west […]
Last week, I put out a call for photos and video of Living History events. You responded! Here’s some of what came in. DELAWARE GOES TO WAR On April 27, Cape Henlopen State Park in Delaware played host to 100 re-enactors who donned World War Two-era uniforms and took part in a mock skirmish between GIs […]
