Tag: Military History
Living History 2014 — MHN Community Tweets Their Best Photos of the Year
The MilitaryHistoryNow.com community tweets us their top photos of 2014
The Deadly 88 — Was Germany’s Flak 18/37 the best gun of World War Two?
“As Operation Battleaxe kicked off on June 15, 1941, Matildas advancing towards the Halfaya Pass were cut down with surgical precision by just five German 88s.” Story Courtesy GermanWarMachine.com IN DECEMBER 1940, the Allies chased…
Bloodletting – The Deadliest One-Day Battles in Military History
THE AMERICAN CIVIL was entering its 18th month in September of 1862 when two colossal armies met 60 miles northwest of Washington D.C. in a quiet corner of Maryland On Sept. 13, 1862, 55,000 Rebel…
M4 Furious – 11 Essential Facts About the Sherman Tank
“Widely acclaimed as one of the main contributors to the Allied victory, the M4 Sherman is perhaps the most recognizable American fighting vehicle of the entire Second World War.” THE GRITTY WAR DRAMA FURY conquered the box…
First Blood – History’s Earliest Recorded Military Conflicts
“Early scribes from Mesopotamia were able to leave behind history’s first-known preserved accounts of war.” WARFARE IS as old as civilization itself. In fact, experts believe that the first armed conflicts were fought more…
The Forgotten Armies of the Western Front – 1914 to 1918
(Originally published October 2012) EIGHT MILLION MEN fought in the British Army during the First World War. More than half of them (5 million) served in France and Flanders on the Western Front. [1] These…
