The Russian KV Tank and Its Crew That Stopped The German Advance for a Full Day
On June 22, 1941, Germany and the Axis powers commenced Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union along a 2,900 km front with a…
German Special Forces: Brandenburg Regiment – you have heard of them, right?
The Brandenburg Regiment, part of Germany’s Nazi special forces, was created by Captain Theodor von Hippel. Hippel was a military man, who had served in…
Japanese Pilot Returned to US Oregon Town He Bombed During WWII
Nobuo Fujita is one of the only World War Two enemies to have tried bombing raids directly over mainland America. Nobuo died in 1997 aged…
5 Unbelievable True Stories About WWII That Should be Made into Movies
What most of us remember about World War II from history classes boils down to who fought who, the Holocaust, the Nazis and how almost…
Campaign Launched To Help Recover Our Vimy Heroes
A campaign to have Canadian World War One soldiers reinterred from their battle graves at Vimy Ridge has been started. To date over $20,000 has…
Amsterdam to Commemorate Wartime Strike against Jewish Deportation
The capital city of the Netherlands, Amsterdam, is preparing to come to a standstill during a commemoration in honor of a 1941 wartime strike designed…
Lucky WWll US army helmet is displayed in museum
The familiar olive coloured M1 steel helmet was first issued to US troops in 1941, and by 1942 all troops had them. The helmet was…
Top 10 Battles of the Vietnam War
The Vietnam War lasted from 1 November 1955 to 30 April 1975, officially between North Vietnam (North Vietnam) and South Vietnam (South Vietnam). In reality, it…
Franz “The One That Got Away” Von Werra: Only German POW to Escape From Canada and Get Back Into the Fight
A POW escaping from captivity has long been one of the more fascinating plot lines of World War 2. For all the war’s brutality, there…
10 Weirdest Facts From WWI
In these centennial years of the First World war, lets look back at some of the more unknown facts about WW1. Were the Generals leading the…
World War Two Sea Forts to be Developed into Luxury Hotel
A group of World War Two sea forts that have been abandoned since the mid-1950s off the coast of Whitstable in the UK may be…
Deadline Gallipoli – TV Series About Australian War Correspondents In WW1
Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean, the son of a college headmaster, was born in New South Wales, Australia in 1879. When Charles was ten years old,…