Tag: battlefield
A trawler was caught in the fallout of a nuclear test, killing its radioman; his last words were “I pray that I am the last victim of an atomic or hydrogen bomb
Bomb Sight website interactive maps shows every Nazi bomb dropped on London during the Blitz
Major David G. Bellemere wearing what it took to survive at 25,000ft altitude, 1944
The everyday lives of Victorian era sailors aboard the the USS Brooklyn, 1896
The mystery behind Robert Capa’s iconic photograph “The Falling Solider”
Watch a Schwellenpflug destroying railway tracks – VERY interesting footage
The ghost village of Tyneham where time stopped in 1943 – they had 28 days to leave
Civil War battlefield of the Siege of Petersburg looted
The Medal of Honor recipient who threw himself on two Japanese grenades, survived the blast and saved his comrades – and was only 17 …
German soldiers came at him with bullets and bayonets, but he was trigger-happy. “I always believe in firing from the hip”
