PERHAPS THE GREATEST ENIGMA OF WW2: ADMIRAL WILHELM CANARIS
By Richard Brook In Berlin, running perpendicular to the Tiergarten is Stauffenbergstasse, renamed in honor of Col Claus von Stauffenberg, the man who tried to kill…
The search for the Messerschmit Me-109 of Lt. H-U. Jung – By Joop Hendrix – Planehunters Recovery Team
There is a lot of information about this particular crash of Me-109G-14, work number: 464162 from 10./JG3 based at Lippspringe Germany at 1-1-1945. The aircraft was…
Guest blogger Alex Kershaw: Liberation of Dachau Part II
To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Dachau on April 29th, Alex Kershaw has sent us an extract from his book The Liberator You…
Guest blogger Alex Kershaw: Liberation of Dachau Part I
To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Dachau on April 29th, Alex Kershaw has sent us an extract from his book The Liberator …
Tank Crews in WWII – Who Did What in a Tank
Tanks have certainly played a large role in mechanising modern warfare. Their significance for both the First and Second World Wars cannot be underestimated, and…
Dan Snow: Second Battle of Ypres – The Dawn of Chemical Warfare
100 years ago this week my great grandfather was serving in the Ypres Salient. On 22 April at 5pm he noticed, ‘a whitish blue mist…
Battle Relics of Saipan – Follow Devon Pike as he explores Saipan and it’s hidden bunkers and relics
Saipan is the largest of the Northern Mariana Islands – though it’s hardly sprawling at just under 20 km in length and half that at…
Bringing history to light – Jersey War Tunnels part of the heaviest fortified island of WWII
The physical traces of the Channel Island of Jersey’s wartime occupation remain like battle scars on the landscape; concrete defences, bunkers, fortifications and tunnels. What…
A Chaplain at Belsen: Unseen Photos of ‘Hell on Earth’ by Tom Marshall
The temporary sign erected by the British shortly after the camp was liberated. The images contained in this article may be shocking, but are included…
Tinian Island: Bombs and Bunkers! By Devon Pike
We took a trip back to Saipan and then on to the nearby island of Tinian from which the US operated the busiest airfield of…
MIA: No man left behind? Two B-24 crash sites off the northern Italian Coast – By Bill Beigel
Two crews from the 449th Bomb Group were lost 13 months apart; one in January of 1944; the other in February of 1945. Both went…
Remains of the German Radar Station near Brno – By Mike Dolezal
During World War II, the nowadays Czech republic saw field operations in 1945 when the country was liberated by the Red Army from east and…