Category: History

Low level, long range, undetected penetration into denied areas, Day or night, in adverse weather, For infiltration, ex-filtration and resupply of special operation forces. As a former pavelow guy it is awesome to see this story covered. Jalopnik writes You have to kick down an enemy’s front door somehow, and in the case of Operation Desert […]

Here is your chance to own a pistol that was used to take part in what is now claimed as, “one of the most Patriotic Acts of Civil Defiance since the Boston Tea Party.” Link to auction and description added at bottom! Oregon Live reports! The wife of Oregon refuge occupier Jon Ritzheimer is using […]

Well, most of them anyway: Now you can add Elliot Rodger – the next in a long line of mass murderers with mass murder on their minds: THE LIST: – Nidal Hasan – Ft Hood Shooter: Reg­istered Democrat and Muslim. – Aaron Alexis, Navy Yard shooter – black liberal/Obama voter – Seung-Hui Cho – Virginia […]

Archived footage, and interviews come together to show a compelling documentary of what chemical warfare was like during the first World War. Funker Imagine you are 16-years-old. You have signed up for the military, illegally, in order to support your country in the war that is being called “The War to End All Wars,” by […]

A Civil War-era house in Mississippi where Ulysses S. Grant launched a major campaign has been vandalized. (FOX)- A press release Thursday from Mississippi’s Department of Archives and History says thieves took four wooden support beams from the 200-year-old home on a Civil War battlefield. The damage at the Shaifer House was discovered April 1 […]

At the end of World War I, Gen. John J. Pershing – commander of the American Expeditionary Forces – penned a letter to every service member who served under him, expressing a heartfelt gratitude and deep respect for their sacrifice, courage and bravery. (FOX)- Pershing begins the letter: “My fellow soldiers…” to those Americans for […]

An identification bracelet lost by a soldier from central New York more than 70 years ago has been found near the beaches of Normandy. (FOX)- WSTM-TV in Syracuse reports (http://bit.ly/2nHyhUy ) Army Sgt. John Hill, of Syracuse, landed in France on June 7, 1944, a day after the Allied invasion began. Somewhere along the way, […]

The man known as “Carlos the Jackal” was sentenced to life in prison for the third time by a French court for the deadly 1974 attack on a Paris shopping arcade. (FOX)- The Venezuelan-born Ilich Ramirez Sanchez was found guilty for throwing a grenade onto a crowded area, killing two and injuring 32. He is […]

Bomb disposal experts removed four Civil War-era artillery rounds from Virginia’s Siege Museum after X-rays showed several artillery rounds stored there are capable of exploding. (FOX)- News outlets report that two cannon balls and two Parrott artillery shells were removed Wednesday afternoon from storage at the museum, which depicts how residents of Petersburg lived before, […]

Ken Hartle, who as a Navy diver during World War II had the grim task of retrieving bodies from ships sunk by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 103. (FOX)- Hartle died Tuesday afternoon at an Escondido, California, center for people with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia, the San Diego Union-Tribune (http://bit.ly/2jnUNzC) reported […]