The Pine Street Boys – Three Victoria Cross Awardees From The Same Street!
Corporal Lionel “Leo” Beaumaurice Clarke, Sergeant-Major Frederick William Hall, and Lieutenant Robert Shankland all received Victoria Crosses for their heroic deeds in WWI. All three…
Hitler’s Last Residence, Fuhrerbunker, Went Unnoticed For 60 Years
A parking lot now sits where Adolf Hitler’s Reich Chancellery once stood. It is long gone thanks to Soviet troops liberating Berlin marking the end…
USAAF Airmen of 487th BG Signed Wall of Suffolk Pub – Staff Now Tracing Them Back To US
From April 1944 to the end of the Second World War, 487th Bombardment Group operated from RAF Lavenham and visited the Swan pub in Suffolk,…
British actor, Richard Davies, dies aged 89
British actor, Richard Davies, who starred in the movie Zulu, as well as many other British TV shows, has died at the age of…
Old Boeing Plant has Some Secrets from World War Two
Many know of the company Boeing and its history of building planes. However, no one knew all of the secrets these specific plants held. Seattle,…
Great Sieges: Jerusalem (70 CE) – One Million Lives Lost In 8 Months Of Combat
The Romans generally tolerated other religions, allowing and even welcoming Egyptian gods into their pantheon. Though they viewed the monotheistic Jews as being odd, they…
Augusta Chiwy, The Hero Nurse From Band of Brothers, Dies Aged 94
Augusta Chiwy, a World War Two Belgian veteran nurse who saved the lives of numerous US Soldiers in Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge in…
Outrageously Edited World War II Pictures
Now that everybody has the skills to manipulate pictures, more and more edited pictures from World War II appear on the internet. Superhero’s, Star Wars, famous…
Nazis Killed Her Husband, She Bought & Drove a T-34 & Then Went On a Rampage
They say that “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” But if you take her love away, it gets a helluva lot worse –…
Next Stop: Pointe Du Hoc and Omaha Beach – Amazing Color Pictures of the 2nd Rangers embarking in Weymouth
Almost Seventy one years on we look back on The US Ranger’s embarkation in Weymouth, destination Pointe Du Hoc and Omaha Beach. These amazing color…
Thomas Blatt, Survivor Who Escaped From Sobibor Nazi Concentration Camp, Passes away
Thomas Blatt , a well-known survivor of the Nazi Death Camp at Sobibor, has died at the age of 88. In WWII he was taken…
Youngest Soldier Of World War One is Revealed and Recognized for Bravery
One of the youngest soldiers recognized by historians today was known as the Boy Soldier during World War I. A memorial of the boy was…