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11 Iconic Battlefields of WWII Then And Now

After just over 70 years, we look back at 11 iconic locations of the Second World War as they were then – and as they are…

5 GI’s Took Cover For What Was To Become A Night From Hell

Only starlight and a sliver of a moon lit the way for the fragmented platoon of the 14th Armored Division “Liberators” Infantry. It was another…

Myth Or Real? Germany Built Wooden Airfields to Fool the Allies, So They Bombed It With Wooden Bombs

This story has been told in many ways, where locations of where the airfield was and how it was bombed being different but the gist…

Games That Teach History – Learning History from Civilization

Historical video games, like many historical films, are full of inaccuracies, mainly to make the story fit better into the medium and to make it…

Auschwitz Love Story Between Nazi Guard & Jewish Prisoner Which Saved Her Life

An Auschwitz love story has emerged more than 70 years on from the depths of a Nazi concentration camp, where a Jewish prisoner fell in…

Trunk Containing Belongings of WWI Soldier Rediscovered A Century After; Auctioned Off

A trunk containing the belongings of a 28-year-old WWI soldier was recently rediscovered almost 100 years later after the Great War. Dubbed the “time capsule”…

World’s Largest LEGO Ship – USS Missouri WWII Battleship

BB-63, the USS Missouri “Mighty Mo” is an Iowa-class United States Navy Battleship, the third that was named in honor of the US state of…

Congressional Gold Medal For Monuments Men Heroes Who Rescued Artworks from the Ravages of War

Robert Edsel spent 14 years of his life hunting down the tales of World War II’s forgotten treasure hunters.  Edsel, who owned a multimillion-dollar oil…

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…

Help Restore the Bastogne 101st Airborne 326th Medical Company monument!

December 2009 – the unveiling of the monument of the 101st Airborne 326th Medical Company was a fact. Now several years later we noticed that…

Vietnam War Prisoner’s Package Sent Home after 40 Years

The wife of a Vietnam War veteran and prisoner of war has received the letters and personal items that she sent to her husband during…

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.…