World War Two missing submarine, HMS Urge, discovered off Libya
Correction: This article states inaccurate and out-of-date information about the location of the HMS Urge, based on reports that were given at the time, but…
War criminal Alois Brunner, Adolf Eichmann’s main assistant, died in Syria
Image Courtesy of commons Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem, confirmed to BBC that the former Nazi war criminal, Alois Brunner,…
Oskar Schindler-The German who saved 1200 of Jews from the Holocaust
Oskar Schindler is man who saved the lives of 1200 Jews during World War II. Instead of having the Nazi`s take them to concentration camps, Oskar…
Australia and New Zealand’s World War One heroes remembered
An Australian Army soldier salutes at an ANZAC Day dawn service [Via] On the centenary of Anzac Day, commemorations have taken place around the world.…
40 years since the US evacuation of Saigon
Evacuation of CIA station personnel by Air America on the rooftop of 22 Gia Long Street in Saigon on April 29, 1975. – Wikipedia It has…
Woolworths forced to remove Anzac Campaign Ads
[Via] After bombarded with a flux of criticism from the angry members of the public, supermarket giant Woolworths has decided to pull back its online…
Veterans commemorate Anzac Day centenary of landings at Gallipoli
This week, veterans, families and officials around the world will commemorate the centenary of Anzac Day. The day remembers the first time Allied troops reached…
‘Bill’ – the tale of a war horse from WWI
Bill carried five soldiers to safety in Egypt [Via] Historians look at the First World War from more than one possible angle. There is no…
Teddy bear that became World War Two hero
The now famous teddy bear [Via] A World War Two widow has stolen the hearts of the British public as she revealed that a tiny…
Hiroshima mission flight logs up for sale
The flight logs from the aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and ended World War Two are to go on sale. [Via] The Enola…