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Don’t miss out!!! With up to 20 actors attending the Brothers Actors Autograph Signings in Normandy

Wargaming

Are you in Normandy for D-Day week this year? If so, come along to one of the signing sessions by the actors. All to support…

The mystery of the missing wheel cap of ‘Enola Gay’ – B-29 that dropped Atomic bomb on Hiroshima

Enola Gay

[Via] The iconic B-29 bomber that was used to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was named the ‘Enola Gay’. This plane was not preserved…

Prince Harry flies in a Spitfire – supporting his scholarship programme for veterans

Spitfire

As a gesture of support for the veterans of Britain’s wars, Prince Harry took to the skies in a ‘Spitfire’ and he seemed to be…

Biggest wartime shelter in Britain sheds light on life during the Second World War

wartime shelter

[Via] The biggest air raid shelter in the UK gives an idea of how Britons lived during the biggest and deadliest conflict of the 20th…

Otto Carius, Famous German Panzer ace of WWII, dies at 92

One of the most respected and successful German tank aces, Otto Carius, who destroyed more than 150 tanks, died on 24th January 2015, at the…

Oise-Aisne American Cemetery Plot E – Where The Dishonorable Dead from WWII are Buried

The Oise-Aisne American Cemetery is a military cemetery in northern France where American soldiers killed in the area during World War I are buried. It…

Part II of “Where did the names of tanks come from?” – From World of Tanks

  World of Tanks Military Specialist, Nicholas The Chieftain Moran: Some weeks ago, I put up a few discoveries about US tank names which I had found…

Unalaska Island: Huge Number of WWII Rommel Stakes Successfully Removed

Unalaska Island – Military junk dating back to the Second World War in Unalaska Island is reduced by 7 tons after after contractors along with the…

Prora – a Nazi-built holiday resort attracting buyers from around the world

Nazi-built holiday resort

Investors are rushing in to buy as many units as possible in a very famous Hitler-era holiday camp. Sales representatives have reported facing a huge…

WORLD WAR II: From Blitzkrieg to Hiroshima – Review by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes

This book is re-released in time for the 70th anniversary of the end of the war. It was overseen by the late Richard Holmes; the…

Don’t miss out!!! With up to 20 actors attending the Brothers Actors Autograph Signings in Normandy

Wargaming

Foxhole Norman will not being going for help this time – he will be signing your poster, T shirt, book or anything else you would…

You know these, right?! 11 house hold names that worked with the Nazis during WWII

Jack Beckett

Kodak The famous camera company’s German branch actually used slave labor from German concentration camps. Several European branches of Kodak did extensive business with the…