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Photos show the recently discovered wreck of a World War II-era submarine more than 80 years after a German sub sank it

Fri, 10/20/2023 - 19:02

Close-up of HMS Thistle submarine wreck — Researchers discovered the remains of the HMS Thistle off the coast of Norway earlier this year.
Courtesy of the Institute for Marine Research

Military & Defense, world-war-ii, submarine

An American soldier stole a 300-year-old painting during World War II. It made an unusual journey back to Germany.

Fri, 10/20/2023 - 04:09

FBI Special Agent David White, left, and Bernd Ebert, a curator at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, sign documents returning the 18th century painting titled — A baroque landscape painting stolen by a US soldier was returned to a German museum.
Claire Savage/AP

News, Military & Defense, art, world-war-ii

Inflatable tanks are being used on battlefields in Ukraine. How hard is it to tell the difference?

Wed, 10/04/2023 - 16:28

A soldier squats next to an inflatable tank set up next to a real US Military tank for comparison. — An inflatable tank designed by the British next to a United States Army medium tank, Mark IV.
Gallagher, 163rd Signal Photo Company/ National Archives Gallery

Military & Defense, Features, russian-tanks, military-intelligence, ukraine-war, world-war-ii, russian-military

Deep-sea explorers captured the first ever photos of a long-lost Japanese shipwreck from World War II's Battle of Midway

Wed, 09/20/2023 - 18:13

The IJN Akagi's gun tub and gun director positioned below the flight deck. — The IJN Akagi's gun tub and gun director positioned below the flight deck.
Ocean Exploration Trust/NOAA

Military & Defense, insider-news, battle-of-midway, world-war-ii, akagi

New Vatican letter suggests Pope Pius XII knew about the Holocaust as early as 1942

Sun, 09/17/2023 - 11:02

Tech Insider : Politics

This unusual photo shows Pope Pius XII standing before his gestatorial chair as he is carried into one of the Vatican's apostolic halls to bless crowds gathered there. Pilgrims in great numbers are presently crowding the Vatican to be blessed before the pontiff retires to his summer palace shortly. — Pope Pius XII blessing a crowd gathered in the Vatican in 1954.
Bettmann

politics, world-war-ii, Holocaust, nazi-gemany, catholicism, the-pope, uk-weekend

Ukraine is stepping up its drone war against Russia, and now it's Moscow turn to reassemble decades-old air-defense weapons

Sun, 09/10/2023 - 17:23

Moscow Russia skyscraper drone attack — Investigators examine a damaged skyscraper in Moscow's business district after a reported drone attack on July 30.
AP Photo

Military & Defense, Russia, Ukraine, drone-attack, pantsir, air-defense-systems, russian-air-defenses

Hitler didn't stop when he was given land, and nor would Putin, says Ukraine's former defense minister

Fri, 09/08/2023 - 07:21

Ukrainian Minister of Defense Oleksii Reznikov speaks in front of a microphone with a Ukrainian flag behind him. — Ukraine's then-Minister of Defense Oleksii Reznikov at Ramstein Air Base in Germany in April 2023.
AP Photo/Matthias Schrader

Military & Defense, News, news-uk, vladimir-putin, Ukraine, Russia, adolf-hitler

The war in Ukraine is pushing Russia away from its WWII-style artillery strategy, and experts say it's 'a concerning trend'

Thu, 09/07/2023 - 07:03

Russian artillery — Russian troops fire an artillery piece during exercises in the Rostov Region in April 2020.
REUTERS/Sergey Pivovarov

Military & Defense, Russia, Ukraine, artillery, self-propelled-artillery, rocket-artillery, Howitzer

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