The ghost fleet of Mallows Bay. In 1917, at the time when the US entered the First World War, the United States had some warships, but a serious shortage of transport ships......
Read moreLi-Jien: A Roman town in China... In 53BC, A Roman general called Marcus Licinius Crassus embarked on a military adventure against the Parthian empire (Iran). He took 45,000 men with him (7...
Read moreFleron fortress: Ghost fort. The fort that (officially) no longer exists...Hidden under the Belgian town of Fleron lies a relic from the past.. Built in 1891, Fleron fortress was one of the...
Read moreBlue Peacock Nuclear Mine: Warning, may contain chicken. The Brits are well known for thinking outside of the box in all sort of engineering fields, including weapon design and manufacturing. But with...
Read moreLuftwaffe's last battle. The German air service was created clandestinely in 1933. It saw action between 1936 and 1939 during the Spanish Civil War. It then took part in WWII, fighting on...
Read moreArdennes 1944: Battle of the Bulge. Hitler's last gamble. On the 16th of December 1944, the German army counter-attacked the allies in the Ardennes. The operation involved 200,000 Wehrmacht troops supported by...
Read moreUXO: Ghosts of past wars: 100 years after the end of WWI, Belgium still struggles with unexploded devices, some still containing Mustard Gas. In 1919, people in France and Belgium wanted to...
Read moreChuck Yeager: In honour of a legend. Chuck Yeager passed on the 7th of December 2020. This legendary test pilot did it all. Over a career that spanned decades, he accumulated 17,000...
Read moreBattle of Jutland / Skagerrakschlacht. On the 31st of May 1916, The Imperial German Navy attempted to lure a portion of the British Navy Grand Fleet into a trap and destroy it...
Read moreOperation Atrina: The real Hunt for Red October. From 1945 onward, both the Americans and the Soviets started incorporating German-inspired technology into their own submarine designs. The Soviets, in true Soviet fashion,...
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