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Amazing Video Blends Drone Footage Of WW2 Crossroads Battlefield With Scenes From ‘Band Of Brothers’ (Watch)

Watch a Band of Brothers episode and have a close look at the site of one of the most famous battles from an entirely new…

Know Your Ally – This Is How American Soldiers Were Prepared For Life In Britain (Watch)

In order to overcome cultural differences, the United States War Department and Signal Corps produced a series of documentaries that compared US citizens and their…

Japanese Fire Balloons and the Tragic Tale of the Last WWII Casualties on US Soil

The Revolutionary and the Civil War tore North America apart, but the World Wars and most subsequent conflicts have been largely fought beyond its borders –…

7 Funny-Looking Tanks That Helped To Win On D-Day

The landings in Normandy demanded new sorts of hybrid tanks that were capable of fulfilling multiple engineering tasks to provide maximum support to the infantry.…

Boeing B-29 “Fifi” Cockpit Checklist Run-through, Engine Start and Take-off (Watch)

In this video, we see a truly magnificent plane – the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, affectionately known as ‘FiFi.’ This Superfortress was built by the aircraft…

Amazing Pilot’s-Eye Video – Flying The Rare WW2 Mosquito

It is not often that you see a Mosquito flying – this is because there are only two airworthy examples left in the world, one…

Breathtaking Drone Footage Flying Over The First World War Battlefields Of Verdun

In this Drone footage by Gauthier Lefebvre, we will take a look at the battle for Verdun as we’ve never seen it before. We fly over…

Pointe Du Hoc From Above – Where The American Rangers Captured The High Ground on D-Day (Watch)

Pointe du Hoc is on the coast of Normandy (Northern France) and overlooks the English Channel. The German army had control of this crucial area…

A Failed Painter, A Vegetarian, And Terrified of Blades – 10 Weird Facts About Adolf Hitler (Watch)

In 1907 a young man walked into the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria. Under his arm, he carried a portfolio of some of…

The Much-Reviled Sir Douglas Haig May Have Been The Best Man For a Terrible Job

Lieutenant George: Great Scott sir, you mean, you mean the moment’s finally arrived for us to give Harry Hun a darned good British style thrashing,…

Lightning Strike: When the Americans Killed Japanese Admiral Yamamoto and Avenged Pearl Harbor

Colin Fraser

Not only did the Pearl Harbor attack of December 7th, 1941 deal a devastating blow to the United States’ Navy and draw the nation into…

Spine Chilling Drone Footage Of Oradour-Sur-Glane, Wiped Out By The SS

On June 10th, 1944, SS Major Adolf Diekmann and his 4th SS Regiment marched to the village of Oradour-Sur-Glane, surrounded it, and ordered every resident…