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Amazing War Footage Of Soldiers From 1899, When The Second Boer War Was Raging

“The Boers are not like the Sudanese, who stood up to a fair fight. They are always running away on their little ponies.” – General…

New Sources Claim Coco Chanel Was A Nazi Spy

Jinny McCormick

Coco Chanel is listed as one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people of the 20th century. She is a fashion icon, of course, as…

Development of the Awe-inspiring Triple Walls of Constantinople

The great city of Constantinople was one of the most impressive and impregnable cities in the world for over 1,000 years. It retained the glory…

Milne Bay – The first Japanese Land Defeat of the Second World War

Reprinted with permission from Australian Bunker and Military Museum Milne Bay is located on the south-eastern tip of Papua. Before World War II, most of the area’s…

Operation Market Garden – September 25th, 1944

A day-to-day account of Operation Market Garden, as it happened in 1944.  Oosterbeek A destroyed King Tiger in the ruins of Oosterbeek All day preparations…

The Friendly Invasion Returns to Suffolk: Welcoming Home Two Men of The Mighty Eighth

Often, my father frustratingly reflects on his 17 year stint in the office of a sugar beet factory through the realisation that almost every man…

Operation Market Garden – September 24th, 1944

A day-to-day account of Operation Market Garden, as it happened in 1944.  Oosterbeek In a final attempt to reinforce the perimeter and secure a crossing…

WHAT?! Sniper who Killed a Taliban Machine Gunner from 8,120 feet away, Then The Assistant & Then Shot the MG to Put it Out of Action

A corporal of the Horse and a member of the elite British Household Cavalry unit holds the record for achieving the longest kill shot ever…

Operation Market Garden September 23rd, 1944

Joris Nieuwint

A day-to-day account of Operation Market Garden, as it happened in 1944.  Arnhem A StuG, sell propelled gun in Oosterbeek The Airbornes are hard pressed around…

Major Cain, The One Man Tank Destroyer Who Received a VC At Arnhem

Major Robert Cain was awarded the Victoria Cross in the battle for Arnhem. He was the sole recipient, out of the five Victoria Crosses awarded during…

Operation Market Garden – September 22nd, 1944

Joris Nieuwint

A day-to-day account of Operation Market Garden, as it happened in 1944.  Oosterbeek Men of “C” Company, the 1st Border, on the Van Lennepweg, 21st…

Operation Market Garden – September 21st, 1944

A day-to-day account of Operation Market Garden, as it happened in 1944. Written by Joris Nieuwint for Hells Highway tours. Nijmegen The final assault on Arnhem…