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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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).

Dartmouth, United Kingdom. (Photo Credit: Derek Harper / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 2.0) HMS E52 was an E-class submarine that served with the Royal Navy during the First World War.Her most famous ...

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 ...

The Vietnam War was arguably the most controversial conflict of the 20th century. One of the most contentious aspects of the war was the Phoenix Program, a US counterinsurgency effort that aimed to ...

One of the best-known films about the Second World War is The Longest Day (1962), which centers around D-Day. In a number of scenes, members of the cast, whether they’re portraying members of the ...

In 2021, Netflix released the anime series, Yasuke.It’s based on the real-life African warrior who, after traveling to Japan, became a talented samurai and took part in fighting during the Sengoku ...

Julia Child’s first major project came when the OSS began to research shark repellent. In 1942, shark attacks were not common at all. In fact, only 20 shark attacks had taken place in less than three ...

In the Hollywood films, spy James Bond would meet his boss ‘M’ mostly in and around central London. However, if you really want to track down where the real spies met go no further than St. Ermin’s ...

The Groupe d intervention de la Gendarmerie nationale (GIGN) – National Gendarmerie Intervention Group in English – is an elite French tactical unit that was established in 1973. It serves many ...

The Sukhoi Su-27, nicknamed the “Flanker” by NATO, is a Soviet-made aircraft that has withstood the test of time and continues to perform in almost all aerial warfare operations.The Su-27 was designed ...