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Winston Churchill, the man who loved to play with colors:

Ian Harvey

It is incredibly phenomenal that Winston Churchill, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, not only created some extraordinary scientific inventions, but he also…

The Strangest Images of WWII

War is a terrible thing but strange and funny pictures were taken during that period too. Here is a random collection of images of funny,…

10 Bizarre War Machines, Prototypes and Designs of WWII

Images used (Clockwise from top left): (1) A WWII SdKfz. 302 model of Goliath Tracked Mine, displayed at the Tank Museum in Munster, Germany in…

70th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge re-enactment in Belgium

Ian Harvey
re-enactment

Hundreds of Americans and Belgians gathered this week for a re-enactment and commemoration of the Battle of the Bulge on its 70th anniversary. 70 years…

Goodbye, WWII Spy and Explosive Experts Sonia d’Artois [1924- 2014]

Sonia d’Artois, a member of the Special Operations Executive [SOE] who parachuted into France before the D-Day to gather intelligence, help with the resistance and…

New memoir tells Battle of the Bulge veterans story

Ian Harvey

A new memoir reveals a Mississippi veteran’s experience of World War 2’s bloodiest battle for American troops, the Battle of the Bulge. The book, titled…

Top secret World War II documents show D-Day under different codename

Ian Harvey
D-Day

A British Army officer who worked in Field Marshall Montgomery’s office has been found to have kept numerous top secret documents from World War II.…

HMS Victory, Britain’s Most Famous Warship, to Undergo the Biggest and Most Expensive Restoration of Its Kind

HMS Victory was first launched two and a half centuries ago and was the flagship of Admiral Lord Nelson, the vessel that led him to victory…

WWI Stories: Search is On for the Owner of the Lucky German Medal Pierced with Bullet from the Great War

The search is on for the rightful owner of the lucky German medal pierced by a bullet during the Battle of Mons in 1914.  The Story…

St George’s Chapel at Biggin Hill gets support from Biggin Hill Airport

Ian Harvey
Biggin Hill Airport

After the ministry of defence decided to stop funding the St George’s Chapel at Biggin Hill, the airport has stepped in to save the remembrance chapel…

Second World War code breaker dies at age 91

Ian Harvey
code breaker

Harriet Jackson never told her family that she was a code breaker and that she actually helped to shorten the world war. She worked at…

The Christmas Truce of 1914 – When Germans entertained the British by Dressed Up in women’s clothes!

Ian Harvey

When the world was going through the most devastating war in the history of mankind in 1914, it was then that soldiers of the two biggest…