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US Returns Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp Wooden Barracks to Poland

Heziel Pitogo

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum is giving back an Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp wooden barracks to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland after being part of the former’s…

Oldest Living Medal of Honor Recipient Died at 96

Heziel Pitogo

96-year-old Nicholas Oresko, oldest living recipient of the Medal of Honor, passed away at the Englewood Hospital and Medical Center last October 4, Friday. The World…

Wargaming donate £75,00 to the Dornier bomber restoration project

The severely damaged German Dornier Do17 Bomber, recovered last June, will soon get a major makeover, thanks to the collaboration of game developer Wargaming and…

Medals: Living Story Books of Anonymous War Heroes

Heziel Pitogo

When others collect real automobiles – vintage or new – or remote-controlled cars and other toys or even comic books, Alex Coulson collects First World…

Finding Nazi Gold Through a Musical Score: Truth or Hoax?

Heziel Pitogo

Recent weeks have flung the sleepy Bavarian town Mittenwald in a flurry of diggings – scenes that bring into mind George Lucas’ films Indiana Jones. The…

Remembering Tommy Keele: The WWI Soldier Who Wore a Frock

Heziel Pitogo

Tommy Keele swore he was straight but he did spend most of First World War dressed as a woman. A strapping young British when World…

WWII and Monopoly, how it helped captured Airmen escape!

Heziel Pitogo

  The board game called Monopoly had really come a long way since it was first mass-produced in America in 1934. The game is basically…

D-Day Dummy found in a Garden Shed

Heziel Pitogo

  One woman was going and cleaning through her grandparents’ belongings in a garden shed when she chanced upon a rare find – a parachute…

Female “Computers” – Women Power in World War II

Heziel Pitogo

  Would you believe even back during World War II, computers exist? FEMALE COMPUTERS AT THAT. They were WWII’s top-secret. After 70 years, their story…

US Gov’t. Shutdown Could Affect WWII Vets’ Memorial

Heziel Pitogo

  On the occasion that the US government does shut down, the National Park Service are going to put up barricades around the National Malls’…

92-Year Old WWII Vet, Buys Back Home from Daughter to evades eviction by her

A 92-year old WWII decorated veteran successfully buys back his house from his daughter, thanks to the funds raised online. “I had this house for…

24 real Heroes of World War II (Part 1)

Heziel Pitogo

  “When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death – that is heroism.”…