World War II Fighting Continued Months After Peace Agreement
It’s easy to imagine that once World War II officially ended, the defeated Germans forces were so anxious to get home that they dropped their…
MacArthur/Halsey Masterpiece in the Pacific – Operation Cartwheel
Within the first few months of Japan entering WWII, the country had spread its influence over the Pacific. It had successfully invaded many of the…
Royal Concerns: How The King Protected His Children During WWII
While the life of a royal might be hard for many of us to imagine, we can nevertheless empathize with a father’s desire to protect…
Worst Weapons of WWII: Luckily Some Were Never Used
Desperate times call for desperate measures, but sometimes soldiers were sent into battle with shockingly incompetent weaponry: either inherently seriously flawed, extremely outdated, insufficient for…
Little Known Soviet “Doolittle” Raid on Berlin
Before and during WWII, or “Great Patriotic War” as it is known in the nations that made up the USSR, the Soviets built tens of…
Black Sunday – The Disastrous Ploesti Raid in Photos and Video
Officially known as Operation Tidal Wave, the Ploesti Raid occurred on 1 August 1943, and because it marked the second highest loss suffered by the…
B-25 Mitchell Bomber – Photos and Videos
During the Second World War, the high adaptability of the B-25 Mitchell Bomber–named in honor of the pioneer of U.S. military aviation, Brigadier General William…
How Radar was the Game Changer of WWII and It’s Only Gets Better
During World War II, in August 1940, Germany started taking the fight to the skies of Great Britain, the last nation in Europe that stood…
The Soviet Invasion of Poland, 1939
September 1939 is mostly remembered for the German invasion of Poland, the event that triggered the Second World War in Europe. But Germany wasn’t the…
Only US Soldier Shot for Desertion in World War Two – Eddie Slovik
During the Second World War, the United States Army came under huge strain. Faced with the shock of fighting in the Pacific and North Africa,…
“Desert Fox” – Field Marshal Rommel in Photos
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was a very popular General, not only to his German compatriots but also to millions of people around the world. He…
10 Soviet Tanks of World War Two – The Good, the Bad, and the BEASTLY
The Soviet Union went through the same stages of tank production in the interwar years as the allies. An unclear understanding of what the modern…