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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Oliver Stone on the set of Platoon, 1986.(Photo Credit: Kupca / MovieStillsDB) Kicking off our list of celebrities who served in the Vietnam War is director Oliver Stone, who released three films ...

T-34s preparing to leave for the Eastern Front, 1942. (Photo Credit: RIA Novosti Archive, Image #1274 / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0) Kicking off our list is the Soviet T-34, a medium tank that was ...

Dad’s Army, 1968-77.(Photo Credit: Don Smith / Radio Times / Getty Images) Best known for portraying Lance Cpl. Jack Jones in Dad’s Army (1968-77), Clive Dunn was an acting legend. He and the cast of ...

There are few military service members who have received the Medal of Honor and had their actions portrayed in a Hollywood movie. Two are Master Sgt. Gary Gordon and Sfc. Randall Shughart. While their ...

Photo Credit: US Army / U.S. Department of Defense Before he was one of Hollywood’s most famous actors and comedians, Mel Brooks served in the US Army. In early 1944, while a senior at Eastern ...

Chesty Puller’s early life and entry into the US Marine Corps. Lewis “Chesty” Puller was born on June 26, 1898, in West Point, Virginia. Growing up, he was fascinated with the military, reading books ...

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 ...

Project Stargate sounds like something out of this world – and it kind of is. No, it doesn’t refer to wormholes or the exploration of other planets, but, instead, a Central Intelligence Agency ...

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 ...

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 ...