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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The design of Pigeon Lofts changed over the course of the war. The Pigeon Loft was never intended to be used on the battlefield. Once the conflict started, the vehicles were moved from the streets of ...

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).

The Way Ahead, also titled The Immortal Battalion, 1944.(Photo Credit: LMPC / Getty Images) David Niven carried out many roles during World War II. He acted in films by the Army Film and Photographic ...

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 ...

Page from the Primary Chronicle, which depicts Oleg the Wise’s campaign against Constantinople.(Photo Credit: Unknown / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain) The early years of Igor I of Kiev’s reign are ...

Prussian Langer Kerl by Johann Christof Merck, 1718 (Photo Credit: Johann Christof Merck / Wikipedia) When Frederick William I became the king of Prussia in 1713 he did away with the luxuries that his ...

Samurai with the Chosyu clan during the Boshin War, 1860s. (Photo Credit: Felice Beato / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain) At the outbreak of the Genpei War, also known as the Jishō-Juei War, in 1180 ...

Cast of Lebanon at the Venice Film Festival, 2009. (Photo Credit: DAMIEN MEYER / AFP / Getty Images) One of the few movies on this list to not be set during WWII, Lebanon (2009) rose to international ...