Lucky Escape for Scottish Fisherman Who Finds WWII Depth Charge in Net
Glenn Gallagher was fishing for prawns in his boat, The Two Boys, just days before Christmas 2018 when he felt something heavier than normal in…
Bombardier’s Bracelet is Found in The Ash Pit of a Concentration Camp, 74 Years After he Was Executed
Many stories from the camps of World War II survive through objects that have endured long since the war. Those tales are as varied –…
Dunkirk Hero Who Helped Make Oscar-Winning Movie Dies Aged 98
Arthur Taylor lied about his age in order to join the Territorial Army in 1936. At the outbreak of World War Two, he signed on…
Last Surviving Nazi living in America Dead at 95
The last known World War two Nazi in the USA has died. Jakiw Palij emigrated to the US in 1949. He claimed to have been…
Art of War How Britain Hid its Great Masters from the Luftwaffe
The British National Gallery in Trafalgar Square is a must-see during any tourist trip to London. If you should be lucky enough to visit today…
Lady Assassin Lyudmila Pavlichenko Deadliest Female Sniper of All Time
It was June 22nd, 1941 when Hitler cut ties with Stalin and began the ill-fated Operation Barbarossa. As the German Wehrmacht began pouring across the…
Sunken Treasure! A Wartime Discovery Is One-of-a-Kind Find
Benjamin Franklin once said: “Three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead.” He meant, of course, that sharing a secret with…
Sad Times: 2018, when not one of the five remaining crew members was able to travel to 77th Memorial at Pearl Harbor
Each year, on the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a memorial service is held. Each year, surviving crew members from the USS…
The Black Panthers, The Segregated 761st Tank Battalion Took on The SS 11th & 13th Panzer Divisions
B Company of the U.S. Army’s 761st Tank Battalion closed in on the French town of Morville-lès-Vic on the morning of November 9, 1944. It was…
The British-Jewish Filmmaker Who Helped Spies in WWI
Sir Alexander Korda is being honored this month by the British Film Institute (BFI). Highlighted in the retrospective are some of Korda’s most recognized films…
Plane Wreckage Found? “Leave me alone for five minutes, I’ve got trouble.” Then he was gone
Some men go to great lengths to be with the loves of their lives, even when military obligations separate them by a continent. Whether war…
Georges Loinger, Veteran WWII Rescuer of Jewish Children, Dead at 108
Born in the border city of Strasbourg, Georges Loinger learned to speak German fluently. With his blue eyes and blond hair he certainly didn’t fit…