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World War I
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Before Mothman, West Virginia’s mysterious TNT area was World War II explosives factory
3+ hour, 32+ min ago (1274+ words) POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — Visitors searching for the legendary Mothman in the woods near Point Pleasant are finding the remains of a massive World War II explosives factory that employed thousands of workers and supplied explosives for American military munitions. Chris…...
John Browning designed over 100 guns, and his.50-caliber machine gun has been used in every U.S. conflict since World War II, the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force says
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (1221+ words) Browning did not live to see most of that record. He died in 1926, and the heavy machine gun he left behind went on to serve for the rest of the century and beyond. Browning learned the trade at home. A…...
DYNAMITE STORAGE WAREHOUSE EXPLOSION KILLS FOUR ARMY FIREFIGHTERS AND TWO SOLDIERS - JAPONSKI ISLAND, SITKA, ALASKA - OCTOBER 13, 1941
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (900+ words) DYNAMITE STORAGE WAREHOUSE EXPLOSION KILLS FOUR ARMY FIREFIGHTERS AND TWO SOLDIERS – JAPONSKI ISLAND, SITKA, ALASKA – OCTOBER 13, 1941 Firefighter Close Calls Dynamite Storage Warehouse Explosion Kills Four Army Firefighters and Two Soldiers – Japonski Island, Sitka, Alaska – October 13, 1941 An explosion of a storage…...
Mustard gas near Ypres: the weapon that changed 1917
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (552+ words) Oct 12, 2026 16:22 74 In the trenches near Ypres, the soldiers initially felt almost nothing. There was no green cloud that they already knew from chlorine attacks, nor immediate suffocation. Hours later, however, the skin began to blister, the eyes became inflamed, and…...
POTD: Massachusetts Colt Second Model Dragoon – Surgeon’s Sidearm
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (204+ words) No Dragoon is scarcer than the Second Model. Only about 2,700 were built, compared to around 7,000 First Models and 10,500 Third Models. You can pick one out by the square-back trigger guard paired with rectangular cylinder stop notches, plus a roller on…...
Those who preserve the memories of the Zone D War Zone.
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (984+ words) Deep within the Ma Da forest in Dong Nai City, forest rangers and conservationists tirelessly protect the forest, care for historical sites, and pass down stories of the resistance war to today's generation. Eighty years after the formation of the…...
Hybrid Warfare Across the Atlantic: The Black Tom Sabotage and the German Intelligence Network (1914–1916)
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (1602+ words) Germany’s covert operations network in North America was organised as a hierarchical and multi-layered structure concealed under the guise of diplomatic immunity[5]. The command and control of this network was carried out directly through the Embassy in Washington and consular…...
German U-boat’s 1915 US visit
3+ day, 55+ min ago (987+ words) On board the submarine, the crew had assembled on the deck in dress uniforms, which were starkly different than what American sailors were wearing. A dashing figure in officer’s regalia bearing a row of medals across his chest stood at…...
WWII air-raid shelter buried beneath German playground rediscovered
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (463+ words) A forgotten World War II air-raid shelter was recently rediscovered ahead of residential construction in Quedlinburg, in west Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The underground trench-like shelter, whose discovery was announced in late July by Saxony-Anhalt’s Heritage Management and Archaeology State Office (LDA),…...
Did Marie Antoinette Really Say “Let Them Eat Cake”?
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (353+ words) ‘Queen Marie Antoinette’ was a fashion icon, known for her fantastic outfits and gravity-defying hairdos. Her extravagant life of excess eventually made her the target of revolutionary fury, and she… Did Marie Antoinette Really Say “Let Them Eat Cake”? ‘Queen…...