Christmas Truce Story: Ordered to Kill Each Other, British Captain and German Baron Shared Beer Instead
One hundred years ago, instead of killing each other as they were ordered to do, British Captain Clifton Stockwell and German Baron Maximillian von Sinner…
The Soldier Who Earned a Medal of Honor Fighting with an Entrenching Tool and a Distinguished Service Cross Just a few Days Later
It has often been said that you can’t keep a good man down. In the case of Benjamin F. Wilson, the medical personnel trying to…
How One of the World’s Biggest WWII Aircraft Collections Went On Sale
A Texas collector was the owner of one of the biggest World War Two aircraft collections. This was little known since it had been a…
The Heroism of Chiune Sugihara – Saved Countless Jews From Nazi Deathcamps
Chiune Sugihara is not a name that immediately springs to mind when thinking of Japanese Second World War heroes, but his story is remarkable. Born…
Top-Secret British Military Inventions Given to USA for Further Development and to Encourage USA out of Neutrality
There are a number of important events from 1940 that are being commemorated 75 years later in 2015. One is the famous evacuation of British…
Battle of the Bulge – Christmas in the Eyes of a WWII Veteran
“Christmas never comes around that I don’t think of the Battle of the Bulge.” Sergeant Malcolm “Buck” Marsh Jr. spent Christmas this year surrounded by…
Christmas with GIs: How American Soldiers Took The Place of British Fighting Men During WWII
American GIs sent to Britain during the height of WWII were repeatedly described as “overpaid, oversexed and over here” but at least, on Christmas they…
Italian Pigs – La Decima – Manned Torpedoes And Kamikaze Style Speedboat Attacks
Under the rule of Benito Mussolini, an Italian frogman unit called La Decima was created. This special unit consisted of men capable of the most…
Irena Sendlerowa Saved over 2,500 Jewish Kids From the Warsaw Ghetto, Smuggling Them Out in Suitcases or Medical Bags
During WWII, Irena Sendlerowa, a Catholic Polish social worker, saved 2,500 Jewish children from death. That’s more than Oscar Schindler managed with 1,200. Though recognized…
The Christmas Truce of 1914 – When the Impossible Happened
WWI was most notable for trench warfare, the conditions of which were often so horrific that it’s hard to imagine what these soldiers endured, day…
“A Nazi Guide to Christmas” Leaflet Found; Instructs Party Members How Christmas Should be Celebrated
Unearthed from an archive in the German city of Dresden is a leaflet with the printed title stating A Nazi Guide to Christmas. The said pamphlet lists a number of…
World War Two Unexploded Ordnance Found at the Bottom of Solent (Watch)
During World War II, the U-boat fleet, which dominated much of the battle of the Atlantic, was small at the beginning of the war and…