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Strange but True: Jews Fought For Germany in WWII

In early 2018 Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center pressed Finnish President Sauli Niinistö to open an investigation concerning the role Finnish volunteers played…

Dogs of War: New Memorial for Unsung Heroes of The Battlefields

Heroes of past wars have contributed significantly to the freedoms we enjoy today. Those that have saved lives by risking their own will never be…

Task Force Smith – America’s Entry into Korean War

Task Force Smith was composed mostly of men under 21 years of age, and before war broke out in Korea on June 25, 1950, its…

Conflicting Alliances – The Liberation of Prague, 1945

During the dying days of the Second World War, German forces clung desperately to their last few territories. One of these was a swathe of…

Luftwaffe Eagle: A WWII German Airman’s Story – Review by Mark Barnes

This intriguing book is the autobiography of the Luftwaffe airman Erich Sommer who flew as a navigator on bombing missions and photo-reconnaissance flights before becoming…

The Bureaucratic Goof that Brought Down the Berlin Wall

At 6 o’clock in the evening of November 9, 1989, a befuddled low-level member of the Soviet East German Politburo gave a press conference to…

American Tanks and AFVs of World War II

I keep occasional tabs on a number of Facebook pages dedicated to military vehicles and in particular the US built armor that have become icons…

6 Soviet Cold War Tanks

The Soviets emerged from the Second World War with one of the best tank designs in the world. This set them up for a long…

D-Day Darlings Keep the Magic Alive

The D-Day Darlings were formed ten years ago by Katie Ashbury and have been immensely successful performing at numerous military events, including The Legion’s Festival…

Great Female Aviators – WASPs of WWII

Necessity, as they say, is the mother of invention, and when the United States faced a pilot shortage in 1942, they freed up male pilots…

Defying Blitzkrieg – Heroes of the Brest Fortress

Ruslan Budnik

The defense of the old fortress located near the Belarusian city of Brest has become an example of fortitude and courage. When the German army…

America’s Battle for Cherbourg, June 1944

Cherbourg was one of the US Army’s first major targets during Operation Overlord. The city at the end of the Cotentin peninsula was a significant…