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Tickets please! Peter Youngblood Hills-portrayed ‘Shifty’ Powers will be joining us!Band of Brothers Actors Reunion – Normandy 2015

Wargaming

When & Where: June 5, 6 & 7, 2015 at Overlord Omaha Beach Museum, the Utah Beach Museum and the Richard D. Winters Leadership Monument…

Ready to cry? 46 WWII tank wrecks from around the world

The guys over there started an interesting thread of tanks wrecks. Many of them are to be found on military ranges and sadly used for…

The US Special Forces Major who fought in the SS

Some men choose sides, others choose battles, and others fight regardless of the side or battle. One such man not only fought for three different…

US World War Two internment and prisoner exchanges revealed

When the US entered World War Two after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the US responded in many ways and one was the…

Duchess of Windsor Ordered her Swimsuit Rescued in WWII

In the run-up to World War Two, it is well-documented that the abdicated king of England, Edward VIII, and his new American-born wife, Wallis Simpson,…

British World War Two veteran in fight for old age care

old age care

96 year old Robbie Clark of Burnt Oak in North London is fighting a battle with his local council to ensure he can remain in…

The Great Retreat of World War One remembered

During World War One, the retreat from Mons, also known as the Great Retreat, was the Allies’ retreat to the River Marne, at the end…

ARTIE – BOMBER COMMAND LEGEND – Reviewed by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes

I’ve enjoyed this book. Fighting High have built a deserved reputation for producing elegant histories of the Royal Air Force during World War II and…

Battle of the Bulge remembered by US veteran

Battle of the Bulge

The Battle of the Bulge has become one of the most well-known battles of World War Two, since it was the Germans’ final attempt at…

Fearless feat of WWII Mosquito pilot who took on 5 German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 aircraft and got through

Photo story (Clockwise from top left): (1) Wing Commander Elwell in his 1946 official photograph (2) Medallions achieved by Pual Elwell (3) 1944 Swindon Advertiser…

Tom Hanks awarded for role in World War Two movie, Saving Private Ryan

American actor, Tom Hanks has been awarded an American Spirit Award from the National World War Two Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana. Tom Hanks praised…

The True Story of One World War II Pilot’s Covert Mission to Rescue POWs on the Eastern Front

Captain Robert Trimble was a US B-24 pilot, turned spy, during World War Two. After surviving 35 missions in six months of bombing raids over…