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 ...

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).

Grumman F-14 Tomcat taking off from the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) during the early stages of the War in Afghanistan, 2001. (Photo Credit: RABIH MOGHRABI / AFP / Getty Images) Upon being equipped by the ...

Zone Rouge – or the “Red Zone” – is a chain of former battlefields across northeastern France that the government has cordoned off due to the many dangerous ordnance that remains from the First World ...

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 ...

The source was the Duga radar, a critical part of the Soviet Union’s early warning system to detect incoming missiles. The antenna of the Duga radar was huge; 700 meters long and 150 meters high.