Filmmaker Races The Clock to Document Stories of Axis POWs in Wartime America

When filmmaker Gregory “Scott” Porter first learned that German prisoners of war were held in America during the Second World War, he was speechless. “My grandmother told me an incredible story about how she had…

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“Removal of a Tenth” – A Brief and Bloody History of Decimation

“The practice of decimation didn’t die with the Roman Empire. Military commanders throughout history have revived the tradition from time to time as a means of punishment.” BY ALL ACCOUNTS, Luigi Cadorna was a terrible…

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World’s Last Two Remaining Lancasters to Fly in Formation in 2014

Residents of England may think they’re seeing double this summer as the two last airworthy Avro Lancaster bombers on Earth come together for a month of commemorative flights throughout the United Kingdom. The two, four-engine,…

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Playing ‘What If…’ With History — Writer Imagines 21st Century Military Hardware in Second World War

Could a modern-day Nimitz-class aircraft carrier single-handedly take out the 56-ship Japanese task force that crossed the Pacific to attack the American fleet at Pearl Harbor in 1941? Such was the premise of the 1980 sci-fi…

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INFOGRAPHIC: From Marathon to Fallujah — 2,500 Years of Battlefield Tactics

We close the week with yet another reader-supplied info graphic. This one comes to us from Rebecca Louis of the website Online Military Education, a domain devoted to connecting American service men and women as well…

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Eugene Bullard – The First African-American Combat Pilot Was a Hero in France But Forgotten in the U.S.

“Despite his acclaim in France, Bullard received virtually no recognition in America.” EUGENE JACQUES BULLARD may have been the 6,950th French military pilot to earn his wings during World War One, but he’s remembered as history’s…

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