During World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army. Welcome to Dongmakgol (2005) More like this >> Based on the long running play by Jang Jin, the story is set in Korea during the Korean War in 1950. Soldiers from both the North and South, as well as an Am...
After the death of his father Murat II, Mehmet II ascends to the Ottoman throne. After braving internal and external enemies, he decides to complete what he was destined to do: Conquer Constantinople. A Walk in the Sun (1945) More like this >> In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one America...
Not sure what was the most touching detail for me, but there were many. That he founded the WWF – which I never knew. That he had a vision of saving the wildlife long before anyone else became awaye of it. That he remained the same Navy man till the end, despite of being Consort...
Note that during the '50's and '60's there were some Japanese "Zephyr" marked binoculars which had no connection to B&L just as during this same time period there were Japanese marked Zeiss, Leitz and Dienstglas binoculars which had no connections with any German manufacturers or the German ...
Check out Frank Cuden's 1/144 scale Amodel Grumman Albatross on Testor's ScaleWorkshop again too - you migh not have been able to access when it was first posted. Also check out the outstanding work on Plastic Pics in the last few days. Really worth a look! 1 - 2 April, 2009...
Do you remember “the fall of the wall” in 1989? The wall in Berlin that had separated East and West Germany since 1945 was occasionally breached by protestors — who were shot on sight — but by the late 1980s, Communism was collapsing, and the wall could not hold. German families we...
They also rescued downed flyers and other military personnel who were downed or sunk along the island chains. These included the future US President, US Navy Lieutenant John F. Kennedy, whose PT 109 Patrol Torpedo boat was carved in two and destroyed by a Japanese warship in the Solomon ...
An English prisoner of war was held by the Germans. The Englishman was shot all over the place, and okay until one day when the German told him, "Englander, your arm is infected with gangrene we must cut it off." The English prisoner said, "Well, okay, but could you drop it over ...
Another anniversary of that historic day is upon us – the 61st of the greatest military operation of its kind in the history of warfare. This was the date when American, British and Canadian troops launched the greatest battle for freedom ever fought. They called it Operation Overlord, and...
2017 is the year when crypto/blockchain entered the frenzy phase. Over $3.7bn was raised by various crypto teams/projects to build out the infrastructure of Internet 3.0 (the decentralized Internet). To put that number into context, that is about equal to the total seed/angel investment in ...