News | War History

Amazing Story of How Six WW2 Airmen Survived Weeks At Sea!

After their Halifax Bomber was lost to the Atlantic Ocean, six WWII airmen found themselves desperately striving to save their own lives. The Halifax, with its…

Guest blogger Dan Snow: Dunkirk – Day by Day 1 June 1940 (Watch)

Dan Snow gives us a day-by-day account of the miraculous evacuation at Dunkirk during WWII. On June 1st 1940, 64,000 men manage to escape the Nazi…

Locating the Graves of Channel Islands WWII Resistance Heroes 70 Years on

They were arrested by Hitler’s men in the German occupied Channel Islands just a few months after their daughters were born. These men lived on…

A Pearl Harbor Witness and World War II Veteran Was Scammed Out of His Life Savings

Shameless scammers stole the life savings of an Arizona Navy veteran who witness and survived the Japanese attacks at Pearl Harbor. He also bravely fought…

FOUND! Aldebaran: The Italian Navy Torpediniera sunk on 20 October 1941 in Greece

Underwater photos by Milonakis Kostas www.wetklik.gr, other photos as credited Nearly 75 years have passed since the sinking of Aldebaran (code AL). An Italian warship,…

7 Very Different Opponents Faced by Victorian British Armies

Maintaining your status as a global power is no easy thing. The British Victorian Army was one of the best equipped and most experienced in…

Hideki Tojo – Japanese WWII Prime Minister – Controversial To This Day

Hideki Tojo, a general and a politician, was the true representative of the Japanese expansionist policy in China in the first half of the 20th…

The Harlem Hellfighters – The Most Famous African-American Combat Unit of World War I

In World War I, nearly 380,000 African-Americans served in the U.S. Army. African-American soldiers primarily served in the 92nd and 93rd Divisions. While there was…

WHAT?! Sniper who Killed a Taliban Machine Gunner from 8,120 feet away!

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…

Have You Forgotten Yet? – The First World War Memoirs of C. P. Blacker – Review by Dr Wayne Osborne

A curious title for an at times curious book.  It is a Great War Memoir but with a difference.  Blacker began writing this book, which…

Winston Churchill’s Secret WWII Bunker Found Behind Fake Bookcase

A secret bunker built by order of Winston Churchill in 1940 was discovered outside of Norwich. It was built as part of a secret communications…

Guest blogger Dan Snow: Dunkirk – Day by Day – 31 May 1940 (Watch)

Dan Snow gives us a day by day account of the miraculous evacuation at Dunkirk during WWII. 31 May 1940 is the most successful day…