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…
New exhibition launched at the National World War Two Museum in New Orleans
A new exhibition is opened at the National World War Two Museum in New Orleans. The exhibition’s main attraction is a new feature film called,…
D-Day dog tag returned to US Army soldier’s widow
Seventy years since Allied troops landed on France’s Normandy beaches to attack the occupying German forces, a dog tag has been found buried in the…
British prisoner of war camps revisited around the UK
Much is written about Allied prisoners of war held in Germany and Nazi-occupied countries during World War Two. But little is discussed about the German…
11 Secret Weapons Developed by Japan during WWII
Images Used (Clockwise from top left): (1) One of the Japanese secret weapons during WWII, Fu-Go Balloon or Fire Balloon (2) Japanese Air Force pilot…
VE Day fighter flyover for Washington, D.C.
On the 70th anniversary of the Allied victory over the Nazis during World War Two, a vintage plane flyover will take place on 8th May…
Battle of Okinawa remembered 70 years on
Seventy years ago this Easter, US troops began the biggest land assault of the Pacific during World War Two on the island of Okinawa. With…
British Army Major who fought in World War Two’s southern front dies at 97
A British Army Major General who led a battalion across Sicily on World War Two’s southern front has died at the age of 97. Major…