Brad Smithfield
Brad Smithfield is one of the authors writing for The Vintage News
Articles by Brad Smithfield:
The massive log rafts of the old new world – tough work calls for tough men
Over 770 confirmed kills in this one picture – the female snipers
The strange & now sadly abandoned Soviet Jet Train from the 1970s
‘fragging’ is the deliberate killing of a senior ranking military officer, usually with a frag grenade…with over 700 cases near the end of the Vietnam war. …
No seriously! The US invented an inflatable plane to drop behind enemy lines – & it worked!
Clever guys in WWII: Parts from warbirds were recycled & reused for all kinds of purposes … …
The poignant story of the Radium Girls – how their deadly tragedy was used to change the world
The 1,650-year-old Speyer wine is the oldest bottle of wine in the world?
The Spirit of Tomorrow: The Art wonderful Deco 1938 Hispano-Suiza Dubonnet Xenia
The Teddy Boys were the dandies of the 1950s – inspired by the Edwardian era
