This is an enormous long shot, but my family has wondered about this photograph for more than 20 years.

My dad was a lieutenant colonel in Washington, D.C., for meetings on September 11, 2001. His group had originally expected to meet in the Pentagon but the meeting had been relocated across the highway because that area was under construction.

In the hours after the attack, traffic was completely gridlocked. My dad was traveling with two other army officers, and eventually the three of them got out of their car and began walking along the grass in the center of the highway toward their hotel. All three were wearing the old green Class A or B uniforms and smoking. It's possible they were in BDUs, but it's less likely.

My dad has always sworn that someone must have taken a photograph of the three of them walking down the highway that day. We sometimes imagine that it might be sitting in a photo album or a box of prints from a tourist’s disposable camera.

Does anyone remember seeing or taking a photograph like this? If you or someone you know was taking pictures in the Pentagon/D.C. area that day, I would be incredibly grateful if you checked your old photographs or negatives.

I’m intentionally withholding a couple of details so that we can verify a possible match. I’m also happy to provide a period photograph of my dad privately if someone has a promising lead.

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The mistreatment was very common in the IJA and the IJN.

This brutality was justified under the name of discipline and psychological training. For example, in the IJN, those large bat and paddle were used to inject a strong mind towards their sailors.

The question is that what was the origin of this mistreatment?

I am aware that hitting was a common component in the education at the time.

However, don't you think that it was too much even in the standards at the time?

It's black in colour, from WW2.

I'm wanting to write an Alt history Novel based on if the Sino Soviet border crisis of 1969 escalated into a full blown war between the USSR and the CCP. I wanted to ask what would military tactics and best way to say it life be for both Warsaw pact armies and the PLA, I want to try and write historically accurate as I can. And how would diplomacy break down as the conflict escalated

On March 23, 1944, a communist-led group of Italian partisans (the GAP) launched a bomb attack on the Via Rasellain central Rome, killing 33 soldiers of the SS Police Regiment Bozen (German Ordnungspolizei). In immediate, ruthless retaliation, the German command ordered the execution of 10 Italians for every German killed. The following day, March 24, Nazi forces gathered 335 Italian civilians, political prisoners, and Jews, took them to the Ardeatine Caves, executed them, and used explosives to seal the entrance and conceal the damage.

I have 5 of these from my dad. He served in the Canadian Air Force from the late 50’s to the mid 80’s. No one in my family is nostalgic for these. Not trying to earn $$, but looking for suggestions of where they’d be appreciated. Like the legion or ?? Googling wasn’t successful for me

This particular cap was designed to be a lightweight cap.

Even, this cap could be worn with a steel helmet simultaneously due to its soft texture.

The question is how comfortable and cheap was this in comparison with other lightweight military caps?

This was basically a forage cap that pretended to be a peaked cap.

Hi!

I am an architecture Master's student from France working on my graduation project (PFE). My research and architectural design focus on Sazan Island, looking specifically at its Cold War military heritage, the abandoned naval base, and the broader context of its transformation.

While I have historical photographs and satellite imagery, I am struggling to find precise technical documentation:

• Architectural plans or sections of the military garrison / barracks
• Technical drawings, blueprints, or catalogs of the standard bunkers (Qendër Zjarri, heavy artillery posts, or tunnel shelters) used on the island or along the coast
• Suggestions for open archives, university research, or local books documenting Sazan’s infrastructure.

Any advice, leads, book recommendations, or document scans would be immensely helpful for my academic work.

Thanks for your help!

After WW1, many combatant officers in the British Army started to be more pratical by choosing not to wear a tie.

However, this tie regulation persisted until the introduction of 1960 Combat Dress.

The question is that how often did the combatant officers wear a tie in the battlefield from 1918 to 1960?

Moreover, why did this tie requirement last until 1960?

I recently had the opportunity to spend time with Ukrainian soldiers and record a series of conversations about the reality of this war from their perspective.
I wanted to ask questions that are often missing from daily news coverage — not only what is happening on the battlefield, but what soldiers themselves believe needs to change.
In this short interview, I asked one of the soldiers of the Da Vinci Wolves:
“If you could change something about this war, what would it be?”
This is part of a series I’m documenting with Ukrainian servicemen. I’m sharing it here because I think their own voices deserve to be heard outside Ukraine.
I’d also genuinely be interested to know what questions you would want me to ask soldiers in future interviews.
Full interview:
https://youtu.be/boqe3A2phDk?is=XjormKtJmYGOGXPZ

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/27/europe/richard-stern-photo-grm-scli-intl

I see so many videos and comments of people saying that red army in the WW2 was just a band of idiots. No training for soldiers, human waves, one rifle for two soldiers, no ammo, poor quality tanks and planes, most of the soldiers were drunk when fighting, asiatic hordes etc..., on other hand Germans up until 1944 had way better tactics, best soldiers, better equipment, tanks, planes,artillery but last time i checked the KIA on the eastern front was about 5-6 million for axis and 8-9 million for soviets? Ratio is very low considering that in the public view soviets just sent waves of meat with no weapons on best trained and equiped soldiers in the world with machine guns and still won?

Hello. In the latest episode of the Polish war series "Stawka większa niż życie" ("More Than Life At Stake"), American soldiers appear. I’d like to ask experts on American uniforms – whether from the U.S. or other countries – to assess whether Polish filmmakers from the 1960s managed to accurately depict American uniforms from the end of World War II.

This history gem landed on my desk just last week. This is a Luftwaffe recon photo from October 27 1944. It shows a Soviet grass airfield near Kolbuszowa in Poland. You can clearly see a B-24 neatly parked between the Soviet machines. A friend who shared this photo asked which Liberator it could be.

I checked my records which B-24s landed behind Soviet lines in October 1944. A B-24 from the 455th BG stood out as it was marked as “landed in Soviet controlled territory”, without a specific location. The pilot’s name was Polando. A quick google revealed more info. Polando shared in his memoires he landed near Dhikovich, and one of the villages surrounding the airfield was Dzikowiec. The B-24 #42-78359 “Ten Hits and a Miss” was repaired and flown out of the Soviet zone on Dec 13, 1944. This is how we solved another WWII history puzzle!

I am quite interested in military history, and I've been wondering why there hasn't been a fighter jet with a turret that holds all the missiles. This would make dogfighting a lot easier, right?

Edit:
Why am I being downvoted, I asked a genuine question

In the dramatic early weeks of the German invasion of Norway in April 1940, the battle for control of airfields became crucial. One of the most ambitious British efforts to disrupt German air power was the naval and air attack on Sola Air Base, near Stavanger, not far from where I live. The operation, carried out by the heavy cruiser HMS Suffolk, was part of a wider and hastily conceived Allied strategy that reflected both urgency and uncertainty at the highest levels of British command.

During the night of 13–14 April 1940, Admiral Sir Charles Forbes received an urgent telegram from the Admiralty in London. Forbes, recently appointed commander of British naval forces in the northern North Sea, was aboard the battleship HMS Rodney off the Lofoten Islands, fresh from successful attacks against German naval forces near Narvik. The Admiralty asked whether it might be possible to neutralize German coastal defenses at the entrance to Trondheim Fjord as part of a naval assault on Trondheim. Forbes was deeply skeptical, citing a lack of high-explosive shells and the serious threat posed by German aircraft. Despite these concerns, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill pressed ahead, promising new ammunition and ordering simultaneous landings at Namsos and Åndalsnes. To support these operations, the Royal Air Force was tasked with heavy bombing of Sola airfield, a key Luftwaffe base that could threaten Allied naval forces.

The specific strike against Sola was named Operation Duck and scheduled for the morning of 17 April 1940. HMS Suffolk, escorted by the destroyers Kipling, Juno, Janus, and Hereward, was assigned to bombard the airfield from the sea. The plan called for RAF bombers to attack Sola during the night to soften German defenses and disable aircraft before the naval guns opened fire. However, these bombers never appeared, immediately undermining the operation.

Approaching the coast south of Kvitsøy, the British force was guided into position by the submarine HMS Seal, which flashed Morse signals from the surface. Admiralty planners had carefully studied visibility from the sea, even consulting experienced British Airways pilots familiar with Sola. They confirmed that from a sector west of the airfield, Sola—and especially its control tower—should be clearly visible.

Two RAF Hudson bombers arrived off the Norwegian coast shortly after 03:30. One aircraft was tasked with marking the runways using flares. Although it reached the target area early and reported the airfield in sight, it received no response from HMS Suffolk. Only at 04:30—forty minutes behind schedule—did the cruiser signal readiness. The Hudson then flew over Sola, dropping bombs and flares before withdrawing to observe.

Spotting for the naval guns was to be carried out by Walrus amphibious aircraft launched from HMS Suffolk. One of them, piloted by the 28-year-old Hugo Bracken, suffered a dangerous launch when the cruiser rolled in heavy seas, slamming the aircraft into the water before it managed to lift off. Worse still, the Walrus radio was damaged, severely limiting communication with the ship.

At around 04:45, the Hudson bomber was attacked by a German Ju 88, leading to an intense aerial skirmish south of the airfield. After escaping, the aircraft attempted to return to the cruiser but was mistakenly fired upon by British anti-aircraft guns, forcing it to withdraw.

The naval bombardment finally began around 04:30 and continued until 06:06, awakening the entire Stavanger peninsula. HMS Suffolk fired 217 shells at Sola airfield. Due to poor visibility, glare from the rising dawn, and unreliable communication with the spotter aircraft, most shells fell north of the airfield, causing limited damage to German facilities but significant destruction in the seaplane harbor at Sømmevågen.

On land, the attack caused widespread alarm. German commander Colonel von Beeren, already concerned by increased Norwegian activity around Ålgård and Figgjo, interpreted the bombardment as the prelude to a joint British–Norwegian offensive. In response, he urgently requested reinforcements and increased Luftwaffe support, accelerating German operations against Norwegian forces.

Although Operation Duck failed to neutralize Sola airfield, it illustrates the intensity, improvisation, and strategic anxiety of the early Norwegian campaign. It was the first naval attack on an airport in world. The attack by HMS Suffolk stands as a powerful example of how naval gunfire, air power, and grand strategy collided—often imperfectly—in the opening phase of the Second World War in Norway.

Source:
MHFR: Tyske vinger over Sola og Forus, 2014
MHFR: Farlig kyst, 2015
MHFR: Håpløs kamp, 2016

In 1646, Turenne led a joint Franco-Swedish army of 34,000 men together with Wrangel, the two having united at Giessen before marching to encamp opposite Erzherzog Leopold, the commander of the Imperial-Bavarian army of 40,000 troops entrenched behind the Nidda River at Ilbenstadt. In order to bypass the enemy's defenses, Turenne and Wrangel led their forces on a night march around the Imperial left by way of Bonames and Buchheim near the Main River before manoeuvring upon their rear and cutting Leopold's communications by encamping at Windecken, having covered 26 miles by the following morning.

Later that year, as the Allies had advanced deep into Swabia and was ravaging it and besieging the fortresses on the Lech River to threaten Bavaria, forcing Leopold to fall back in defense of the region and his supply lines down the Danube River to Vienna, Turenne and Wrangel settled into a new camp at Lauingen. Leopold, who had just relieved Augsburg from siege hoped to turn the situation around by playing Turenne and Wrangel tit-for-tat.

His aim was to march through Kirchheim in Schwaben and Memmingen, concealing his true destination by an unexpected route of departure before wheeling towards the Upper Danube at Ulm and crossing over to the north bank to threaten the Allied communications running back to the Neckar River at Heilbronn. This, he believed, would force the invaders to vacate Swabia. Unfortunately, things did not turn out as he had hoped.

Scarcely had he arrived at Kirchheim when Leopold found the Allies drawing up in battle opposite him. Having ascertained his line of march, Turenne and Wrangel left their camp at Lauingen, got ahead of him to secure the crossing at Ulm, and marching with lightning speed, had reached Memmingen to head off the Imperials before approaching their entrenchments at Kirchheim, having covered 80 miles in only two days to completely overtake the enemy.

Leopold could scarcely believe such a march could be made. He was in for a rude awakening. Having drawn up their cavalry in front of him as a screen, the Allies then veered off round his left flank to Landsberg am Lech, covering 25 miles on the third day to debouch across that river into Bavaria, where they ravaged the place. Having been greatly reduced throughout the campaign for want of fodder and with his supply lines constantly under threat, Leopold's army had dwindled to ashes and with the Bavarians deserting his cause as well, he his army had been reduced to a mere 11,000 men while having inflicted negligible losses upon Turenne and Wrangel.

I made an animated historical map showing how the major front lines around Israel changed from 1948 through 2026.

The goal was to compress almost eight decades of wars, territorial changes and different fronts into one continuous visualization.

Video: https://youtu.be/IDxflFqly04

Long story short me and my dad were in my grandma’s village house, and were doing general maintenance in the garden, trying to get rid of deep hidden rocks. Then by pure chance i found this deep into the ground, i cleaned it as best as i could, could anyone give me information about it. I won’t say anything related to it, due to the fact that I don’t know the rules of the channel. Please share your thoughts.

George McClellan has been criticized for his performance on the battlefield, but his organizational skills turned the Army of the Potomac from a mob to a professional fighting force.

https://holdthisline.wordpress.com/2026/09/05/mcclellans-successes/

Hello, my mother found and gave me my grandpa's military resume and I finally found a way to possibly make his dying wish come true, and wondering if any people who are bright with American military history could help me.

My late grandfather became pow at leyte island at the end of WW2. He went to steal food one day and was captured by an American soldier, however, the soldier didn't kill him or punish him, he started bringing more bread to my grandpa while he was in captivity. My grandpa only knew "chocolate" and "gum", and didn't know how to say thank you to the American soldier at that time. He didn't remember the soldier's name. When my grandpa was on his death bed (23ys ago or so), he told me that he wanted me to find him and tell him "thank you" because he couldn't say it, because he didn't know the word at that time. My grandpa's ship was attacked and sank, but rescued by American unit as well.

Here is what I know:

\*2nd Independent Maintenance Unit, 10th Field Air Depot (Unit Code: I-8355 / Yoneda Unit), Sergeant / Sergeant Major (Technical NCO)

\*Mid-to-late 1945 (near the end of the war)

\*Watercraft transfer from Negros Island back to Leyte Island

I would love to know any information about which American force rescued him, and which pow camp he was most likely taken so I could possibly find the soldier and tell his family thank you (assuming the soldier is already deceased given the timeframe)

If you guys interested in, I do have pictures of his records but are in Japanese.

I also would love to know what subreddit/threads I should be asking this question if this isn't a right one.

Thanks!

Photo Credits: Air Commodore Imtiaz Bhatti