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Why This ‘Boring’ Canadian Box On Wheels Was The Most Loved Vehicle In Every British Unit –  Hw

Oshawa, Ontario, late 1943. Inside the General Motors of Canada plant, workers bolted flat steel plates onto a Chevrolet truck…

The ‘Invisible’ British Motorcycle That Dropped Inside A Bomb Container Behind German Lines On D-Day –  Hw

1942 a secret workshop hidden inside a Gothic mansion in the Hertfordshire countryside, 30 miles north of London. A lieutenant…

Why Britain Built Armoured Cars From Scrap Metal And Oak Planks After Dunkirk – Hw

Late July 1940, Canley works, Coventry. Workers at the Standard Motor Company are bolting 9mm mild steel plates onto civilian…

A journalist asked Foreman one question about Kinshasa — his one-word answer stopped everything. JJ

Foreman was asked if the rope-a-dope was luck. His one-word answer ended the debate. George Foreman had not spoken publicly…

The ‘Stolen’ German Panther That Outperformed Every British Tank It Served Alongside – Hw

Late 1944, a barn on the outskirts of Overloon, a small Dutch village the British press had already nicknamed second…

One Year After Losing Her, the Duke Saw Her Again — And Couldn’t Believe His Eyes

The rain had stopped an hour ago, but the grass in the private cemetery was still wet. Duke Alexander Whitmore…

The ‘Insane’ British Jeep That Actually Flew Over England Towed By A Bentley –  Hw

November 1943, RAF Sherburn in Elmet, Yorkshire. A supercharged 4 and 1/2 L Bentley, rumored to be a blower Bentley…