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For Sale: 6 MI-24 Soviet Attack Helicopters: 4 Million Dollars!

You can now be the owner 6 of these beasts; they are for sale on eBay for only 4 Million Dollars! The seller guarantees that…

Easy Company – Band of Brothers – The Crossroads Battle Explained

Introduction – The Island It is October 2nd, 1944, the 101st Airborne has completed its tasks on Hells Highway around Veghel and Eindhoven and has…

Hitler’s Last Residence, Fuhrerbunker, Went Unnoticed For 60 Years

Hitler’s Last Day

A parking lot now sits where Adolf Hitler’s Reich Chancellery once stood. It is long gone thanks to Soviet troops liberating Berlin marking the end…

USAAF Airmen of 487th BG Signed Wall of Suffolk Pub – Staff Now Tracing Them Back To US

From April 1944 to the end of the Second World War, 487th Bombardment Group operated from RAF Lavenham and visited the Swan pub in Suffolk,…

British actor, Richard Davies, dies aged 89

  British actor, Richard Davies, who starred in the movie Zulu, as well as many other British TV shows, has died at the age of…

Old Boeing Plant has Some Secrets from World War Two

Many know of the company Boeing and its history of building planes.  However, no one knew all of the secrets these specific plants held.  Seattle,…

Augusta Chiwy, The Hero Nurse From Band of Brothers, Dies Aged 94

Augusta Chiwy, a World War Two Belgian veteran nurse who saved the lives of numerous US Soldiers in Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge in…

The Battle for Tarawa – 76 Hours of HELL – November 20th 1943

  The Battle of Tarawa was one of the more terrible American experiences in the Pacific theatre of World War Two. It was one that…

Outrageously Edited World War II Pictures

Now that everybody has the skills to manipulate pictures, more and more edited pictures from World War II appear on the internet. Superhero’s, Star Wars, famous…

THE HISTORY OF THE PANZERWAFFE – Review by Phil Hodges

The latest from Osprey Publishing really is a wolf in sheep’s clothing…..or a tiger! The History of the Panzerwaffe breaks from the traditional paperback that we…

Thomas Blatt, Survivor Who Escaped From Sobibor Nazi Concentration Camp, Passes away

Thomas Blatt , a well-known survivor of the Nazi Death Camp at Sobibor, has died at the age of 88. In WWII he was taken…

Youngest Soldier Of World War One is Revealed and Recognized for Bravery

One of the youngest soldiers recognized by historians today was known as the Boy Soldier during World War I.  A memorial of the boy was…