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The Vickers Light MKVI B – Quite Useless As A Fighting Tank

The first mass-produced British tank. Being, in terms of numbers, the most significant British tank at the outbreak of war, the Mark VIB saw service…

The North Korean Mystery Town In The Demilitarized Zone

The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea has long become synonymous with the battle between east and west. However, a mystery town has…

10 Things You Never Knew About WWII

Everyone learns about World War II from their high school history classes. It’s inevitable. Hitler’s tyranny, the Holocaust, the attack on Pearl Harbor; these events…

You Got To See This: 5 Republic P-47 Thunderbolt Fighters Fly In Formation!

Listen to the sound of freedom as 5 restored P-47 Thunderbolt Fighters take to the skies at the 2005 Planes of Fame Museum airshow at Chino, California.…

Iranian Embassy Siege and More – Top 8 SAS Operations (We Know About)

The Special Air Service (SAS) was founded by Colonel David Stirling in 1941 as a regiment of the British Army. They were originally a commando…

IN MY FATHER’S FOOTSTEPS – Review by Mark Barnes

IN MY FATHER’S FOOTSTEPS

Events in Normandy and the disaster at Arnhem tend to have a superficial effect of diverting attention away from the overall campaign of 21st Army…

Japan’s revisionists have different view of World War Two

  Japan’s revisionists are a driving force behind a different version of what happened during World War Two. Slave labour, torture and sex slaves for…

Historians Find 1942 Transcript Of Hitler Ranting Against his “useless” Generals

Researchers have uncovered new transcript of one of Hitler’s rants towards his top officers. The transcript was written down in 1942 and was discovered in the archives of the…

Drawings of German Booby-traps Discovered in Britain

A set of valuable drawings and impressions of Second World War booby-traps and stealth bombs used by Germans has been discovered after almost seven decades.…

“The French American” Movie maker gets to use real WWII B-17 flying fortress

Film producer and director, Darla Rae can’t believe her luck. Darla is making a movie called The French American and has gotten her hands on…

The Hunt For America’s Missing In Action From WWII Continues

Papua New Guinea is littered with the remains of hundreds of Americans that are still missing in action (MIA) during the Second World War. It is…

British WWI Mark II Tank – Training Tanks

The seventh in a series of short films about some of the vehicles in our collection presented by The Tank Museum’s historian David Fletcher MBE.…