March 18: The Centenary of the Allied Naval Onslaught on Dardanelles
March 18, 1915 – A flotilla of French and British war vessels started an onslaught in the Turkish Dardanelles Strait. Their purpose — to secure the…
WWII Pigeon Gets Blue Plaque Memorial
The town of Haywards Heath in Sussex is set to put up a Blue Plaque Memorial in honor of the WWII hero they spawned — a…
WHO-Tube: Dick Winters: Hang Tough
This documentary narrates a story about the Richard D. Winters Leadership Monument, which is in Normandy, France in 2012. Richard was the leader of the…
Operation Crossroads – The Nuclear Weapons Test on Bikini Atoll
Between the years of 1946 and 1958, a nuclear testing program was put in place by the United States in Bikini Atoll (part of the…
LOOK AT THESE!! Mind blowing colourised images of WWII!!
Many thanks go to Doug Banks and his team – the masters of colourisation. The beauty of these colourised images is that colour, allows you…
The Dogs of the Great War: Discovering their Secret History
The adage “Dogs are men’s best friends” can be seen throughout history, even during the world’s two major conflicts. Even during the First World War, dogs acted…
Secret Nazi files reveal V-2 rocket tests on German people
Secret Nazi records reveal how Hitler tested the V-2 rocket on his own German people. The secret records were filed as highly classified SS documents and…
D-Day landing craft designer to be commemorated in Normandy
A petition has been launched for a permanent memorial for a World War Two boat designer to be built on Utah Beach in Normandy, France…
A Great Italian Invention: Sheep with Parachutes!
The Italians and the ‘raining’ of sheep during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War. The Italian’s love of fresh food is a common knowledge. However, we might…
The search for 2 German Fighters That Crashed During Operation Bodenplatte – By Marcel Hermes
The search for two crashed German fighters, shot down over Veghel (Netherlands) on January 1st. 1945. Operation Bodenplatte On new years day 1945 the German Luftwaffe…
The Strangest Images of World War I
A random collection of some of the strangest images we could find from Word War I. It features men, vehicles, weapons and moments! Trench Vehicle?…
War-torn Warbirds: Haunting Images of B-24 Liberators
The B-24 Liberator was, together with the B-17, the workhorse of the United States Army Airforces who used it in every theater of operations. It…