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

Harlem Hellfighters on the Western Front. (Photo Credit: US Army / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain) On 25 July 1917, the 15th New York National Guard Regiment was called into federal service for ...

Photo Credit: The Tank Museum / Provided The Charioteer was a desperate stop-gap solution to a lack of firepower in the British Army’s tank force at the beginning of the Cold War. By 1951, it became ...

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 ...

German actor Marlene Dietrich was one of the most famous faces of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Moving to the United States after her breakthrough role in The Blue Angel (1930), she wowed audiences with her ...

White Bird, 2024. (Photo Credit: notion / MovieStillsDB) Serving as a sequel to 2017’s Wonder, which starred Bryce Gheisar, White Bird tells the story of Sara Blum, a Jewish girl growing up in ...

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 ...

In 1931, the British Royal Navy lost one of its long-range submarines, just under two years after the vessel was commissioned. The incident, which saw HMS Poseidon (P99) collide with a Chinese cargo ...

Magazines in the 1970s and ’80s misinformed the public into believing Rhodesia was a hotbed for freelance mercenaries, where there were riches to be made – think something akin to the Frederick ...

FN FAL. (Photo Credit: Atirador / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0) The FN FAL is a gas-operated, selective-fire battle rifle that fires the aforementioned 7.62 × 51 mm NATO cartridge. It features a ...

Artifacts found at the site of the Roman-era wall in the Dossone della Melia forest, in the Calabria region of southern Italy. (Photo Credit: University of Kentucky Research / News Release) Other ...