Hanbury Crater: Britain’s biggest WWII explosion site 71 years on
Seismologists in Switzerland at first thought it was an earthquake, hardly guessing the seismograph recorded the effects of a massive explosion in far distant England.…
The Strangest, Funniest, Eccentric and Odd Habits Of Stalin, Hitler, Churchill and FDR
Admit it, finding little-known funny, eccentric and odd habits, obsessions and facts about men who carved their places in history is both amusing and interesting.…
Beer Bombers: Boys Will Be Boys and Soldiers Needed Their Beer!
Only a few days after the Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day, the dust and heat of the tortured area stirred up quite a thirst…
Wreck of the SS Thistlegorm in the Egyptian Red Sea
By Super Jolly for War History Online: Underwater for 68 years, a snap shot in time and beautifully preserved WWII cargo so desperately needed by Allied…
The ‘perfect Aryan’ Nazi Propaganda Baby Was Actually Jewish
When Hitler took control over Germany, he was striving for Aryan perfection and wanted to get rid of the Jewish influence. With that in mind,…
Historic Guernsey Fort for sale – Bring £2 million
The island of Guernsey, situated off the coast of Normandy is a British Crown Dependency. It is not a part of the British Isles but…
A Man’s Letter to his Family During World War Two Made Public
A young man who was in his 20s during his service aboard the USS Doyen a fast attack transport in World War II decided to write…
The Misfit Who, On His First Mission, Became the First Enlisted Airman To Receive a Medal of Honor
Maynard Harrison “Snuffy” Smith was such a screw-up, he joined the US Army to avoid jail. He earned the nickname, “Snuffy Smith,” because no one…
Untold Story of British Marines’ Heroism on the Eve of Falklands War
More often than not history repeats itself in a variety of different fashions as it did for British forces in a very short and less…
Top 10 Horribly Inaccurate War Movies
The majority of the people do not directly take part in the wars going around the world. Therefore, it is very significant that the people…
The Mystery of the Wellington Crash in 1941 Eventually Solved
There is no scarcity of lost and found stories of the last moments of thousands of Allied and German soldiers during the Second World War.…
Plane that went Down During Pearl Harbor Photographed for First Time
A plane from the Oahu Air Army Force Base, which was attacked by the Japanese minutes before the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7,…