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The Leopard I was one of the most iconic tanks of the Cold War, with numerous variants developed for service outside of Europe. One was the AS1, which served with the Australian Army for some three ...

For the first time, the names of 425,000 individuals who collaborated with the Germans during the occupation of the Netherlands in World War II have been made available online. The names were ...

Before being sent to Europe to fly bombing missions over Europe, Jimmy Stewart was given a touching letter from his father.

The Bombing of Dresden, Germany stands as one of the most controversial events of the Second World War and is a stark symbol of the devastation wrought by aerial warfare. In February 1945, this ...

Tupolev Tu-95, 1983. (Photo Credit: CORBIS / Getty Images) In 1950, just five years after the conclusion of the Second World War, a request was issued to Soviet aircraft manufacturers for a new bomber ...

The largest and most advanced aircraft carrier in existence, the USS Gerald R Ford (CVN-78) is what the newest generation of warships looks like. With an overall cost of more than $17 billion – $4.7 ...

Let’s dive into something that’s been bugging many for decades: how did old fighter aircraft shoot at the enemy without blasting their own propellers into oblivion? Picture this: the early 20th ...

Fact and fiction are blended seamlessly in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers (2001), which can sometimes make it hard to determine what really happened and what was embellished. While the majority ...

In February 1988, an interaction between US and Soviet Navy vessels resulted in the tension-fueled Black Sea Bumping Incident.

Dwight D. Eisenhower viewed firsthand the crimes that were committed by the Germans at concentration camps when he visited the newly-liberated Ohrdruf during the Second World War. The sights were so ...

If there’s one thing World War I is known for, it’s the use of trenches as a means of protection and strategy. They could be seen for hundreds of miles along the Western Front, employed by soldiers ...