70 years since deadly bombing raid on Tokyo
Seventy years ago in early March 1945, US B-29 bombers undertook their deadliest bombing raid on Japan’s capital city, Tokyo. The bombing raid dumped huge…
Alan Turing World War Two notebook to go on sale
A notebook from the 1940s belonging to Alan Turing, the British scientist and mathematician, is to go on sale by auction. Alan Turing was hired…
Plaque for Nijmegen bridge in honour of World War Two troops
Nijmegen, a city in the east of the Netherlands bordering Germany, is looking to commemorate 70 years since the end of World War Two with…
Memories from Battle of Okinawa – ‘Operation Iceberg’
Recording in his journal the days and nights leading up to the Battle of Okinawa, Lt. Col. William A. Kuretich described the weather, the mood…
President Putin equates rewriting WWII history with hiding Nazi crimes
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has said that recent attempts by some people at rewriting the history of World War II is no more than…
WWII: Gunner fell 22,000 feet WITHOUT a parachute and survived
S/Sgt. Alan E. Magee poses for the camera, halfway into the tight confines of the ball turret of a B-17 Flying Fortress. [Via] Ranked among…
A WWII Paratrooper from the ‘Battle of Arnhem’ dies at the age of 90
A World War II paratrooper who took part in the Battle of Arnhem has recently died. He was 90. Philip Letchford was among those paratroopers…
Imber – ‘Ghost village’ of WWII
The former Seagrams Farm A small village in Wiltshire called Imber is famously known as the ‘Ghost village’ of the Second World War. During World…
Japanese historians challenge US publishers on the subject of ‘Comfort Women’
A group of historians from Japan is challenging the depiction, in US history textbooks, of women trafficked to Japanese military brothels during World War II.…
Churchill had planned to thank US with a copy of Magna Carta
As a gesture of gratitude for its active support for the British cause in World War II, the Prime Minister of Britain, Winston Churchill, had…
Japanese Veteran was refused a seat at a WWII memorial ceremony
After having survived one of the bloodiest conflicts in the Pacific War, a Japanese veteran was told he could not join other Japanese attendees at…
World War Two US soldiers honored in the Netherlands
Thousands of World War Two US soldiers who were killed in action are being honored in the Netherlands. One of them is Stanley McNivick from…