The Brave Women of the Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was the first major all-aircraft campaign of World War II. It was marked with several episodes of intense aerial combats. Swarms…
Top Bombers & Pilots of WW2
The intense fighting of World War II produced many missions. Many pilots received a break after 25 missions, but others pilots flew more. This sometimes…
List of Danish Nazis Made Available Online
In the years following the fall of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989, citizens of those countries were able to go through many of the…
In The Dark Shadows Of History – Nightmare At The Rapido
January 20-22, 1944 It was the dead of winter in January of 1944. In the space of 48 hours, the 36th Division would lose over…
“Sawn-Off Lockie” The Most Successful British Pilot During the Battle of Britain
Eric Stanley Lock might have been called “Sawn-Off Lockie” due to his rather petite stature, but he was more than just a short airman from…
Fuel Tanks Empty, He Engaged The German, Shot Him Down & Somehow He Managed To Get Back to Base
When, on a fateful night, Jack Adams saw an aircraft belonging to the enemy, he had no idea that his choice to go after it…
Landed ‘Blind’: Shots Devastated the Hurricane’s Perspex Canopy, Throwing Splinters of Perspex Into His Eyes
His flying career reached its end just three years after he joined the Royal Auxiliary Air Force (RAuxAF). But the events surrounding his fate, and…
How German Intelligence Agents Managed To Unearth A Ton Of Information From POWs
Alexander Jefferson of the United States Army Air Forces was flying a P-51 Mustang over Toulouse, France, in August 1944. It was by no means…
Who was this notorious & mysterious SS general, he just vanished in May ’45
Hans Kammler was a very senior member of the SS with a history of involvement in war crimes. When World War II ended, Kammler disappeared,…
Shot Down But Stayed in His Plane to Save Crashing On a Village
The Battle of Britain wasn’t a battle fought with soldiers in trenches or tanks. Instead, it consisted of repeated fighter plane engagements between the desperate…
B-24 Pilot Saved 1000’s of POWS But Never Said a Word About His Wartime Heroism
The loss of life and the destruction caused by conflict is one of the greatest tragedies of war. A more personal tragedy is that many…
Keep Calm and Carry On – the Fascinating History of The Iconic & Troubled WW2 Poster
Stuart Manley and his wife, Mary, run a second-hand bookshop called Barter Books in Alnwick, Northumberland. In 2000, they bought a box of old books at an…