News on the march

Some news about the secret coded message found on a dead pigeon in UK.

Link here.

World War One Miners/Tunnellers

Interesting text about tunnellers during the First World War. Kind of remind me the Rats during Vietnam.

Link here.

Youtube

Youtube is full of feature length documentary about history and wars, so I made a little compilation... Two films about secret weapons, and three about Hitler.

Soviet Top Secret Weapons
 
Nazi Secret Weapons

Hitler's Secret Science

Hitler's Bodyguard

Hitler's Children

NatGeo : The Rise of Hitler

Here's the link of the National Geographic documentary The Rise of Hitler. This interesting 90 minutes film also use coloured archives.

Link here.

WWII pigeon message stumps GCHQ decoders

The remains of the bird were found in a chimney in Surrey with a message from World War II attached. Experts at the intelligence agency GCHQ have been struggling to decipher the message since they were provided with it a few weeks ago.

Link here.

Irish soldiers's wills from WWI on internet

The Republic's National Archives will put the wills of 9,000 Irish soldiers who died in the First World War. The documents reveal the last wishes of the soldiers, many of them Ulster men.

Link here.

WWII collector

Interesting thing to follow! This guy have an amazing collection of WWII items related of the Wehrmacht, here's his description.

"I have been a WWII collector for over 20 years. My collection centers around the field equipment, weapons, ordnance and other types of memorabilia relating to the German Wehrmacht. I put this site together in an effort to let other collectors and historians see my collection. So many private collections never see the light of day. I hope you enjoy this site and if you have any questions please feel free to contact me."

Link here.

WWI shotgun

If you have 9000.00$ and live in the US, this one is for you. A Wincherter Model 1897, trench gun, in excellent shape! Look pretty amazing, kind of remind me a gun from the futur, like in Looper.


Link here.

Looking for a WW1 body armor?

Looking for a WW1 body armor?

Link here.

Aircraft nose Art

After watching Memphis Belle, I was looking around to find some plane nose art, and I found this. I wonder how something like this would look on my car?

Link here.

November 11, remembrance day

To remember who give their life in the line of duty... War poem wrttien in 1915 by Canadian Physician and Lieutenant Colonel John McCra...

Poem here, french version here.

Wilhelm Brasse, photographer

Wilhelm Brasse, a Polish photographer who took pictures of tens of thousands of Auschwitz prisoners during World War II died October 23, 2012. Almost seven decades after the end of the war, Wilhelm Brasse's pictures preserve the memory of Holocaust victims.

Article here, pictures here and wiki here.

Homemade WW1 Trench

If only I had a back garden a World War I trench... A former history teacher builds 60ft-long trench in his back garden.

Link here.

The K-Rations

The K-rations explained from A to K... Ok, this isn't that funny, form A to Z.

Link here.

Just one more Grunt in Vietnam

The story of one of the many young men that was drafted into the military during the 1960's for service in Vietnam. As he wrote; "I decided I would write down everything I could remember and share it with them [you]."

Link here.

Vietnam booby traps

The most common booby traps used during the Vietnam War, plus some explanation on how they work. Simply terrifying.

Link here and here.

The Poisoned Paradise Island

The aftermath of the U.S. nuclear test on the Bikini Atoll.

Link here.

Movember

For Movember, here's the little contribution of the Victory Bonds. The best facial hair of the Civil War.

Link here.