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Wargaming Announces World of Tanks Generals Closed Beta

Wargaming

Players can enlist to get early access to the new free-to-play game. February 16, 2015 — Wargaming announced today that the World of Tanks Generals…

Tickets please! Band of Brothers Actors Reunion – Normandy 2015

Jack Beckett

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

World War Two US Navy Ace Fighter Pilot Dies

Ace Fighter Pilot

Alex Vraciu, a World War Two US Navy ace fighter pilot, has died at the age of 96.  Alex joined the Air Force’s Fighting Squadron…

Norfolk Barns may have been Built by Nazi Sympathisers

Nazi Sympathisers

Strange barns in Norfolk’s North Pickenham, in England’s south east, have been linked to a possible World War Two plot by Nazi sympathisers. With World…

New Enigma Code Documents Discovered at Bletchley Park

Enigma Code

Alan Turing, the famous World War Two British Engima code breaker, is said to have had notes and documents stuffed into the wall cavities of…

World War Two Dresden Bombings Leave Lasting Impressions

Dresden

On February 13, 1945, Dresden in East Germany was hit by an overwhelming Allied bombing raid. First the British Royal Air Force dropped more than…

Where can I find the tank monuments to the Battle of the Bulge? Right here!!!!!

Jack Beckett

In June 1944, the Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy. In the following months, a liberated France from Nazi occupation advanced toward Germany itself…

The Yalta Conference: Seventy Years Later

Yalta Conference

In one meeting the groundwork was laid for the Cold War The Fourth of February, 1945 was as good a day as any for a…

Last Surviving Officer of the USS Arizona Passes Away at 100

WWII Veteran

The last surviving officer of the USS Arizona has passed away Joe Langdell was renowned for his life-stories. His life had been an adventurous one,…

Protests Force Rechristening of Nazi War Criminal Named Ship

Jewish Protests

Want to cause a disturbance? Name a ship after a Nazi and land it where there is a large Jewish populace The Dutch are known for…

WWII Stories: “I Was a Jew but the Nazis Offered Me a Job”

Get to know the story of Freddie Knoller, the Jew who was offered a job by the Nazis, survived internment in Auschwitz and triumphed over…

Germany: Dresden Bombing Commemorated 7 Decades On

    Germany commemorated the Allied firebombing of the German city of Dresden seven decades from when it happened. The country solemnly remembered the people,…