Thinktank Will Display the Spitfire in a New Exhibit in April 2015
A new exhibition which will display the iconic Spitfire at the Birmingham’s Thinktank Museum has been granted an award of £155,000 grants. Visitors to the…
Bronze Age Forest and WWII Tank Traps Discovered
Due to the raging seas which ravaged the coastline of Wales, tank traps and Bronze Age forests have been revealed. Some of the more dramatic…
Neuschwanstein holds secrets of lost art work beyond fairy tales during the Nazi era
“The castle of the fairy-tale king” seduces more than a million tourists every year with its serene facade and mysterious air featured in postcards, travel…
MIA American Hero Forgotten During WWII is Now Returning to be Buried on American Soil
Lawrence Gordon, Private First Class in WWII, was forgotten for over fifty years after being buried near the site of his death in Normandy. Now,…
WWII Photograph is a Highly Honoured Addition to American History
A South Pacific photograph taken early on during the Second World War has received recognition as the most honored historical image in the history of…
A Look Back at the Army Air Corps
The United States Air Force came into being in 1947, two years after the end of World War II. Prior to that, WWII pilots flew…
Hindenburg’s last will and testament could have stopped Hitler from consolidating power, defector claims
British intelligence documents could have changed the course of history. The newly released documents previously classified supports the testimony of a pre-WWII German diplomat who…
Treblinka The Transit Camp: Why Did 900,000 Go Missing?
A group of forensic archaeologists have recently discovered some new evidence pointing to Treblinka, a Eastern Poland Nazi death camp where 900,000 people disappeared.…
New Book Claims Hitler Retired to Argentina after making a secret escape from crumbling Nazi empire
FBI documents recently released suggest that Adolf Hitler made his escape from a bunker in Germany to Argentina where he spent the rest of his…
Latvians march to honor World War II allies who fought in Nazi units
The Legionnaires Day was abolished by the Latvian government in 2000. Yet, this did not stop around 1,500 Latvians from marching Sunday last week to…
Haunted Pub Captures Ghostly Figure of Royalist officer from the Civil War on Surveillance
A ghostly figure was caught on film on Valentine’s Day at the Ye Olde Man and Scythe in Bolton, which is one of the oldest…
Black Paratroopers Have Profound Effect on WWII
Walter Morris joined the paratroopers in 1940, when segregation of blacks and whites was still very much alive in America. In terms of the Second…