Dunkirk boats sail back in 75th anniversary commemorations
On the 75th anniversary of the evacuation of Dunkirk, some of the original wooden boats that went over to rescue the Allied soldiers from France…
British World War Two veterans returned to Arnhem for commemorations
[Via] London taxi drivers, or ‘cabbies’ as they are known, have joined together to organise a trip to Arnhem in the Netherlands for a group…
Operation Manna – how Allied airforces saved millions of Dutch people from certain death
The date was 29th April 1945; a teenage girl along with 12 other people was in hiding from German troops. She was frightened, trembling with…
WATCH: SR-71 – The World’s Fastest Plane
Imagine a plane that could travel at three times the speed of sound. That’s 1,030 meters every second or 1.03 kilometers (.65 miles)! The United…
For Sale: 1944 North American P-51D Mustang
For sale, by court order this amazing P-51D Mustang! It feels like a barn find but it probably isn’t, you can’t fly it straight away…
Pictures: Life and Death of the USS Yorktown
Follow the USS Yorktown from the moment her keel was laid, through sea trials and into the Battle of the Coral Sea. Damaged in that…
WATCH: King Tiger Tanks
The common name of Nazi Germany’s heavy tank is “Tiger II” but it is also known under the informal name Königstiger, which often is translated…
How Lt. Col. Paul Needham survived after the Iranian storming of the US Embassy
Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Paul Needham was among those taken hostage during the Nov 4, 1979 takeover of the US Embassy in Tehran Iran.…
‘Never to part again’ Lohman, Mo., sailor killed in Japanese kamikaze attack in World War II
By Jeremy P. Amick A mother’s love for a child can be an abstract and unwavering force that yields to no person or object. Few…
Yamamoto World War Two crash site re-opened
[Via] The World War Two crash site where the Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto died has been reopened to visitors after more than five years. The…
Nazi propaganda boy talks for the first time about meeting Hitler
In 1936, Gerhard Bartels didn’t realise he was posing with one of the world’s most hated dictators, but at the age of just four that…
How HMAS Sydney was sunk by a small German cruiser in 1941
[Via] Photographs of Shipwrecks discovered off the Western coast of Australia is now shedding new light on a Second World War tragedy in which scores…