After 30 Years, Plane Crash Killing 248 101st Airborne Division Soldiers Commemorated
On December 12, 1985, 248 US Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division died in an airplane crash. They were on their way home from a…
Did You Know The Famous WWII Spitfire Was Crowd-Funded?
The Spitfire is an iconic emblem of World War II with its distinctive silhouette and the unmistakable growl from its Merlin engine, but what is…
Should Hungary Make Reparations to Holocaust Survivors?
Fourteen survivors of the Holocaust sued the Hungarian government and its national train company, MAV, last month. The charge was that they had cooperated with…
Yankee Air Museum Finds New Home In Old WWII Bomber Factory
Thousands of historical aviation artifacts and eight priceless aircraft were destroyed in a 2004 fire at the Yankee Air Museum in southeast Michigan. Without a…
Carrier Operations In the Pacific – 22 Amazing Picture you MAY Not have Seen Before !?!
The war in the Pacific was, for the first time, a war of Aircraft Carriers. They took over the leading role from the battleships which…
Remember This One? Spoof Advert Showing Young Hitler Getting Hit By Car (Watch)
Adolf Hitler may have totally loved his Mercedes limousine, but a wickedly humorous group of students created a video in 2013 that showed the vehicle’s…
40 images of captured Sherman tanks in German hands!
During World War II, captured soldiers became POW s (Prisoners of War) and were detained in camps. But what happened to captured equipment, such as…
Top 15 Worst Nazis
The Third Reich, which lasted from 1933 to 1945, was one of the most, if not the evilest regime in history. It attracted some of…
Seven-meter Torpedo Found At Scapa Flow Linked To Sinking Of HMS Royal Oak
A seven-meter torpedo was discovered last month in Scapa Flow, a shallow-bottomed bay sheltered by Scotland’s northern islands. Experts believe that the torpedo was fired…
Dover Commonwealth War Memorial Given the Green Light
Ambitious plans to create a new memorial naming the 1.7 million Commonwealth casualties of the two world wars have been funded by a £0.5 million…
Henry Mucci’s rescue of POWs from Cabanatuan Prison Camp
On the face of it, it looked to be a rescue mission with little chance of success. Reports had filtered through of the most terrible…
Forgotten History: Night Witches – All Female 588th Night Bomber Regiment
In the west we know little about the Soviet efforts fighting the Nazi’s. We know about the battle of Stalingrad and the battle of Leningrad…