5 Things You Don’t Know: M1 Garand (Watch)
The M1 Garand rifle is a 0.30 caliber semi-automatic US rifle designed in 1928 by Canadian-American firearms designer John Garand. It was in service as…
The “Glorious Glosters” Greatest Battle – When 650 Glosters were up against 10,000 Chinese
Unique in all the British Army, the “Glorious Glosters” wear badges on the front and the rear of their berets. This right was earned in…
MUST SEE: 21 Amazing Aerial Shots Of Bombed Out Berlin Shortly After The War…..
Following the end of World War II, photographer Hein Gorny took spectacular aerial shots of the ravaged German capital. These were the first, if not…
The Greatest Lie In History – Double Agent Garbo & D-Day Landings
The D-Day landings on June 6th, 1944 was the Allies attempt to invade Europe and finally push back the Nazi invaders once and for all. General…
London Underground Wartime Shelters Rediscovered!
Life for Londoners in the Second World War was fraught with danger. On the first night of the Blitz, 7th September 1940, over 800 German…
Congresswoman Fights Ban on Burying Female WWII Pilots at Arlington
Elaine Danforth Harmon was born in Baltimore, Maryland to a middle-class family; her father was a professional baseball player and a qualified dentist, and her…
The Praetorian Guard: A Double-Edged Sword
By Ludwig Heinrich Dyck / ludwigheinrichdyck.wordpress.com The Praetorian Guard evolved from the bodyguard of the Republican army commander, the ‘consul’ whose original name waspraetor. When Augustus…
RAF Pilot Ray Holmes Who RAMMED a German Bomber To Stop It Hitting Buckingham Palace
Let us recall the story of daring RAF pilot Ray Holmes and how his downing of a German Dornier 17 bomber near Buckingham Palace became one…
Waking Up To Find A German U-Boat on the Beach
On April 16, 1919, the residents at Queens Hotel, a beach-front hotel in Hastings, on the Sussex coast in England, awoke to the most amazing…
The Miracle of Dunkirk Turned Into Movie By Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan, a renowned film director, has recently been scouting locations in Dunkirk, fueling rumors that he is to direct a World War II action…
Top Ten Battles of All Time
Wars start because of power struggles, and while many become forgotten, others change the destinies of entire nations. Still others shape the world we live in,…
Is This 112 Year old Auschwitz Survivor The Oldest Person Alive?
During the Second World War, more people died in the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz than the combined total number of American and British losses.…