Category: Living History
‘The Cold Blue’ – New Documentary Dazzles with Digitally Restored Wartime Bomber Footage
“Audiences will be transfixed as B-17 pilots and gunners survive flak barrages, enemy fighters and sub-zero temperatures during some of the most harrowing bombing missions of the war.” IT’S THE EUROPEAN air war like you’ve…
Fort Niagara – The Amazing Story of One of America’s Oldest Military Fortifications
“The French built the first fort at Niagara in 1679. The U.S. Army finally decommissioned the post in 1963 making it one of the longest occupied military posts in America.” By Robert Emerson THE HISTORY…
Planes of Fame – Check Out This Gallery of Vintage Warbirds from One of America’s Top Aviation Museums
“If you love aviation history, don’t miss the Planes of Fame, either the California location or its sister site in Arizona.” By Michael Jabbra IF YOU’RE A MilitaryHistoryNow.com regular and you ever find yourself in…
‘The Neptune Monograph’ – Historians Launch Campaign to Restore a Trove of Top Secret D-Day Documents
“Only a few men saw the Neptune Monograph before D-Day and after the war, it almost disappeared from history.” IT WAS ONE of the most closely guarded secrets of the Second World War – a…
Return of the ‘Memphis Belle’ — Restored Warbird To Be Unveiled On 75th Anniversary of Final Mission
“The fully-restored plane, which has not been seen publicly for more than 16 years, will be the centrepiece of a new exposition.” THE NATIONAL MUSEUM of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio will be…
WarGen Needs You! – Open-Source Memory Project Seeks Volunteers to Record WW2 Vets’ Stories
“Our aim is to have the testimonies of veterans from all around the world.” OF THE 16 MILLION Americans who fought in World War Two, fewer than 620,000 are still alive today. Their average age…
