Used His Last Moments In a Burning B-24 To Sink a U-Boat – Rescued German Captain Recommended Him For a VC
Flying Officer Lloyd Allan Trigg was awarded a Victoria Cross for destroying a German submarine in WWII. The only reason we know of his heroic deed…
10 Facts about the German defeat at Verdun (1916)
By February 1916, the German advance into France had long since ground to halt, there was little movement on long front line and the conflict…
Malta: The Island Nation that Defied the Fuhrer
The George Cross remains one of the highest military honors that can be given in the United Kingdom. Second only to the Victoria Cross, it…
Britain’s Bomber Balloon Attacks Against Nazi Germany
Between 1942 and 1944, the British Royal Air Force and Royal Navy frequently got to bickering over a certain issue. It was, oddly enough, to…
One of the last SS units to hold out defending Hitler’s bunker in Berlin was comprised entirely of Frenchmen
The French volunteers of the Second World War constituted an entirely separate division in the Wehrmacht and after that the Waffen-SS which consisted of units…
Lacey Lady, The B17 WWII Bomber, To Be Restored To Its Former Glory
The Lacey Lady is a World War II-era B-17G bomber. For years it sat above Art Lacey’s gas station in Milwaukie, Oregon. It was long…
West Loch: The Pearl Harbor Disaster No-One Knows About
Everyone knows the story of the attack on Pearl Harbor, but few people are aware there was a deadly event there in addition to the…
VC Who Turned The Tide At The Battle Of Isurava – The Japanese Were Caught Off Guard As The Fierce Australian Juggernaut Fired At Them From His Hip
In August 1942 the Japanese were hell-bent on taking the (then Australian) city of Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea. Trying to stop them were…
VC: A Gurkha Calmly Stood Up In Open Sight & Killed A Sniper Pinning Down His Company Before Going On To Clear 5 Enemy Bunkers, Single-Handedly, All Whilst Under Heavy Fire
Bhanbhagta Gurung was awarded the Victoria Cross or VC, Britain’s highest military award although he had been demoted due to the incompetence of a senior…
The Story of Big Week: The Plan to Cripple the Luftwaffe, Some Say it Was a Waste of Men & Machines
In 1944 the United States Strategic Air Forces decided they had to do something about the German Luftwaffe. What they did became known as Big…
Greatest Mysteries of WWII – They Were Ahead of the Curve, Top Secret Weapons Of Nazi Germany
Towards the end of World War II, Nazi scientists and engineers were working on a number of destructive and innovative devices. The Germans were losing…
The Experiences Of Hitler’s Food Taster
Margaret Wölk was 25-years old when she began working at Adolf Hitler’s “Wolf’s Lair” headquarters. It was 1941. Her husband had been drafted for the…