U-1206 – The Only Sub to be Sunk By a Dump on the Toilet
The U-1206 was commissioned on March 16, 1944 and a type 7C U-boat. This type U-Boat was equipped with a new type of toilet designed…
Easy Company – Band of Brothers – The Crossroads Battle Explained
Introduction – The Island It is October 2nd, 1944, the 101st Airborne has completed its tasks on Hells Highway around Veghel and Eindhoven and has…
‘Give away: Fury’ DVD & Blu-ray a World of Tanks Fury Tank for PC & family day out
The Tank museum in Bovington in October last year opened the ‘Fury’ exhibition was sponsored generously by Wargaming, an award-winning online game developer and…
Archive of Evil donated to University of Colorado
A Turkish-born businessman has left the largest private Holocaust collection of evidence, documents, artifacts and memorabilia to the University of Colorado’s Jewish Studies program in…
Remnants from Iraq-Iran war seen from space
The International Space Station (ISS) has been picking up images of earth, and particularly of the war torn border between Iraq and Iran. The images…
World War Two Reenactor Shot In Stomach by Live Round
A World War Two re-enactment went terribly wrong in Jacksboro, Texas in February when a man was hit with live ammunition. Participants gathered for the…
War History: Ten Women Working for the Enemy
Women were not generally accepted within the battlefields of war history yet they played vital roles in the two major war efforts as well were…
A rough guide of the costs of guns during WWII
We know that millions of weapons were made during WWII – but do we know the cost of their production? This isn’t a bulletproof guide,…
Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte – Hitlers Idiotic Heavy Tank Design
As the beginning of the war swept over Europe, with lightening speed, Hitler felt invincible, at least for the first two years of the war.…
WWII Stories: Remembering the 7 Powell Brothers
Get to know the seven Powell brothers who all served and survived the Second World War. Only one of the seven, George Powell, remains alive…
US air attack on Tokyo worse than atomic bombs
In the final days of World War Two 70 years ago, US air attack took place on Tokyo in an attempt to force the Japanese…
Royal Mint coin commemorates 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain with inaccurate coin
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, one of the most infamous air battles of World War Two, Britain’s Royal Mint has…