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World of Tanks Video: Inside the Tanks – The Jagdtiger

  As you may have read, we have partnered up with World of Tanks to bring you some great and cool content. At the bottom of…

Choctaw Soldiers: World War One’s Original Code Talkers

Using the language of Native Americans for military purposes did not just happen during the Second World War; World War One had its share of…

New mass grave site located at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

mass grave

A new mass grave at the site of the Nazis’ Bergen-Belsen concentration camp has been discovered by researchers from the Netherlands. 70 years ago the…

Isle of Man war time B-17 crash remembered

B-17

Just before the end of World War Two in April 1945, troops back in Allied territory such as the UK and France began to relax…

5 Amazing Animals That Served In The Military Forces

Images Used (From left): (1) An iconic photograph of Bamse wearing a sailor’s cap of the Norwegian Navy during WWII (2) Lin Wang, the Asian…

WWII Amazing Stories: How a Handgun Shot Down a Fighter Plane!

How could a small weapon – a handgun – win over a bigger foe, a fighter plane? The year was 1943. It was the height…

A British truck refuelling a Messershmitt ?? – 10 Bf-109 photos and their pilots you may not have seen before

A German propaganda picture showing a British truck refuelling a BF 109 in the Channel Islands (Source: Bundesarchiv) Pilot Major Günther Rall when getting out…

German Special Forces: The Brandenburg Regiment

Holly Godbey

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…

US World War Two Raiders to receive Congressional Gold Medal

Raiders

A group of World War Two heroes are to receive the US Congressional Gold Medal for their role in the war and are going to…

Japan reverts to its Imperial past – Rewriting of history textbooks in Japan

The role of Imperial Japan in the Second World War has already gone down as a dark chapter in history books. Japan’s treatment of its…

The escape of the ‘Orzel’ – an adventure of a Polish Submarine in WWII

Polish Submarine

There is no shortage of accounts of bravery and heroic escapes in the history of the Second World War. But there are very few stories…

Top 5 Strangest Photos of World War II (Watch)

We present you the top 5 strangest photos from World War II, with their stories! We will take a look at beer bombing Spitfires that…