Whatever Happened To… ? — Seven Famous Military Leaders and What They Did Later in Life
“What about the other generals — those who covered themselves in glory on the battlefield only to disappear into obscurity in peacetime?” MANY OF HISTORY’S most celebrated military commanders achieved immortality by dying heroically in battle. Think: Horatio Nelson, James Wolfe, Stonewall Jackson and George Armstrong Custer….
Military History in 100 Objects – A Farewell to Arms (and Legs)
For our second installment of Military History in 100 Objects, we’re going out on a limb… literally. Here are a few of the most famous prosthetic appendages from the annals of wartime. If you think…
Wanted: One Passenger – Canadian Warplane Museum To Sell Seat On Trans-Atlantic Lancaster Flight
As MHN reported in February, the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum (CWHM) will be flying its famous Avro Lancaster bomber all the way to the U.K. this summer. And now officials with the museum are…
Gooney Birds – 12 Experimental Aircraft That Were Too Weird for Use in WW2
“A number of these experimental aircraft featured designs so innovative and outlandish they call out for recognition even now, more than 70 years later.” MORE AIRPLANES rolled off assembly lines during World War Two than in any…
Hitler’s Holdouts – Meet the Last German Troops to Surrender in WW2
“Small pockets German troops refused to give up and in some cases fought on for days, even weeks, before finally calling it quits.” IT WAS JUST after 2:30 a.m. on May 7, 1945 when Generaloberst Alfred Jodl, commander of what…
Yellow Fever, Greek Fire and Poison Gas — Secret Weapons of the U.S. Civil War
By Jeffrey B. Roth The American Civil War was a conflict that sat astride two phases in military history: It began with generals on both sides employing timeworn Napoleonic-era strategies and ended with horrific trench…
