Dunkirk Yacht Used By Churchill Up For Sale For €2m
A luxury yacht used in the evacuation of Dunkirk during World War Two is being put up for sale for €2 million. The yacht is…
Vast Collection of Never-Before-Seen Marine Corps Films to be Restored, Preserved and Shared Online
The Marine Corps is sending a vast collection of never-before-seen Marine Corps films to South Carolina specialists for restoration, preservation and to be shared online…
Vistula-Oder Offensive: The Offensive That Brought The Soviets To 70km From Berlin
In the 2004 film Downfall, depicting the last few days in Adolf Hitler’s bunker under Berlin before the city finally fell to Soviet troops on…
Channel Dash: When the Germans Snuck a Whole Fleet Group Through the English Channel
For many generations, British sea power was a terrifying obstacle to any nation or empire who wished to oppose the might of those Isles. In…
Pacifist WWII Veteran Fired from Remembrance Day Parade
George Evans, aged 92, of Wellington, Shropshire, has been part of the town’s Remembrance Day parade for the past twenty-five years. The veteran of the…
Lease Cancelled Of Company That Failed To Turn Hitler’s Wolfs Lair Into A Tourist Attraction
The rich, if somewhat infamous, history of Hitlers bunker complex makes it a prime tourist attraction to this day and this little corner of Poland attracts…
New World War Two bombing map shows Blitz devastation
A new Ordnance Survey bombing map produced in the UK has been released showing the exact locations of all the bombs dropped by the German…
Nazi Hunters Work On Their Last Active Case In The US
Jakiw Palij lives in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City and is thought to have been a Nazi guard at one of the regime’s concentration…
Japanese Schindler Helped 5,580 Jews Escape The Holocaust Ended Up Selling Lightbulbs To Survive
Although Japan was one of the Axis Powers during WWII, one Japanese diplomat did his best to mitigate the horrors of his country’s ally, Nazi…
An Oklahoma 101st Airborne Airborne Veteran Remembers Bastogne
Veteran James Ahrend was a combat engineer with the 101st Airborne Division. Several years ago he went to Washington, D.C. to see the National World…
First He Shielded a Wounded Marine From a Grenade With His Body; Then He Gave His Life To Save Him
There are stories often left out of popular history, not because they don’t warrant attention but because someone in battle gave so much so soon…
12 Battles That Defined the Crusades
The Crusades, Christian Europe’s attempt to drive back other nations and religions, were among the most ambitious and badly thought out campaigns in military history.…