The captured OSS agent who convinced an entire German Army to surrender!
Frederick Mayer was born in Baden Germany, in a Jewish family. He worked in Germany for a while after finishing High School education, working as…
RAF Pilot Ray Holmes who RAMMED a German bomber to stop it hitting Buckingham Palace
Let us recall the story of daring RAF pilot Ray Holmes and how his downing of a German Dornier 17 bomber near Buckingham Palace became one…
Japanese Zero was the flagship enemy fighter aircraft during World War Two
Mitsubishi A6M3 Zero Model 22 (NX712Z), recovered from New Guinea in 1991 and used (with the atypical green camouflage shown) in the film Pearl Harbor…
A look at Buchenwald concentration camp
Buchenwald concentration camp was the first to be liberated by the Allies in April 1945, at the end of World War Two. The US Army’s…
‘Dyffryn Aled’ – the Colditz of Wales where 3 German Officers Escaped and Nearly got on a waiting U-Boat
A rich aristocratic lady lived a very content life in her 25-bedroom late-Georgian country estate called Dyffryn Aled, in the Welsh countryside. During the First…
German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel – The Desert Fox who earned the respect of the British
[Via] Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was perhaps the only German leader during the Second World War who was regarded with honour by the British. Rommel…
Nazi’s Lebensborn Project – Breeding the next generation Super Race of Aryans
During World War Two around 12,000 blue-eyed, blond children were kidnapped by the Nazi’s elite security service, the SS. The children were kidnapped as part…
AMAZING! Weapons from WWII embeded into trees in Nevsky Pyatachok – Russia
The Second World War left its mark on the world, as it was discovered by accident in Russia a few years ago, in a region…
Haven’t seen 99% of these before. 34 great colour images of warbirds!
Millions of poignant black-and-white photos have come out of the World War Two era, but it is not often that scenes from the deadliest conflict…
MUST READ: Front-line surgeon, protected his aid station – he took on & killed 98 Japanese before he was overrun…
Many humans worldwide fear going to the Dentist for pretty obvious reasons: The pain, the worry that you’ll have to get a cavity filled, and…
A re-enactment of a Confederate surrender brings back memories of the American Civil War
It was the 9th of April 1865, 150 years ago, when the Confederate commander, Robert E. Lee, surrendered to the Union, after fighting 4 years…
Creator of ‘The Hobbit’ film has designed 21st century standard ‘World War I Exhibition’ in New Zealand
[Via] After the huge success of his Hollywood blockbuster, ‘The Hobbit’, the filmmaker Peter Jackson has surprised fans and historians around the globe with his…