TANKFEST 2025 is only a few days away, and the most anticipated guest at this year’s event has arrived at the Tank Museum.

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The design of Pigeon Lofts changed over the course of the war. The Pigeon Loft was never intended to be used on the battlefield. Once the conflict started, the vehicles were moved from the streets of ...

Left: US bombers dropping bombs on North Vietnam during Operation Rolling Thunder. Right: The French Naval Air Force drops napalm over Viet Minh guerrilla positions during an ambush (December 1953).

Project Stargate sounds like something out of this world – and it kind of is. No, it doesn’t refer to wormholes or the exploration of other planets, but, instead, a Central Intelligence Agency ...

Whenever troops are severely injured in battle, they’re extracted and airlifted to the nearest medical facility by MEDEVAC teams. These units, conducting “Dustoff” flights, as they were called, saved ...

The Way Ahead, also titled The Immortal Battalion, 1944.(Photo Credit: LMPC / Getty Images) David Niven carried out many roles during World War II. He acted in films by the Army Film and Photographic ...

Page from the Primary Chronicle, which depicts Oleg the Wise’s campaign against Constantinople.(Photo Credit: Unknown / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain) The early years of Igor I of Kiev’s reign are ...

Under the direct control of Frederick William I during his reign was a military regiment filled with giant soldiers. Officially they were called “The Grand Grenadiers of Potsdam,” but they would ...

Falling under German control during the Second World War, Houska Castle became a topic of intrigue and speculation. Rumors abound regarding the regime’s motives, with some suggesting their presence ...

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 ...

Cast of Lebanon at the Venice Film Festival, 2009. (Photo Credit: DAMIEN MEYER / AFP / Getty Images) One of the few movies on this list to not be set during WWII, Lebanon (2009) rose to international ...