World War 2 | War History

From The Tank Museum: German Tanks At Kursk

The attacking German forces at Kursk amassed 777,000 men and around 2500 tanks and assault guns. This was about 70 per cent of all their…

Admiral Kimmel: The Scapegoat of Pearl Harbor – “It would have been merciful had it killed me” as he watched helplessly as the disaster unfolded

Jeff Edwards

There have been few American military disasters that could ever rival what took place on December 7, 1941. The United States would see over 2400…

Own A Piece Of Hitler’s Atlantic Wall In Britain – The Ultimate Piece of WW2 Memorabilia is for Sale

A bunker, previously occupied by the German Wehrmacht on the island of Guernsey is on the market for £155,000. Built as an accommodation bunker to…

The Ground-Breaking Gloster Meteor – The Only Allied Jet Which Took Part Combat in World War Two

The British Gloster Meteor jet fighter entered service late in WWII. It was a ground-breaking aircraft in an era when aerial combat was changing. The…

We Tend to Forget That There Was a SECOND Raid On Pearl Harbor – Operation K

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Everyone knows about the First Pearl Harbor Attack by the Japanese Imperial Navy. But few are aware of the 2nd Raid that the Japanese launched…

This British Major Brought An Umbrella To The Arnhem Bridge, You Will Not Believe What He Did With It

Jeff Edwards

One might think that being surrounded by the German SS is no laughing matter, but don’t tell that to British Major Digby Tatham-Warter.  This cool…

The main reasons why the allied landings at Anzio were a failure – within three days of the landing, the Allied troops were surrounded by 3 Panzer divisions

Towards the end of 1943, Allied forces were struggling to fight their way up Italy in the face of stern resistance from German Field Marshal…

Code Name: Cicero – Elyesa Bazna Was A Ruthless WWII Spy

Turkish secret agent, Elyesa Bazna, whose code name was Cicero, worked for Nazi Germany during WWII. How it All Began Born on July 28, 1904,…

The Vultee Vengeance – The Allied WWII Dive Bomber Developed To Rival The German Stuka

When people talk about aircraft used in WWII, most remember the German Stuka dive-bomber used to great effect very early in the war, but both…

The Russian KV Tank and Its Crew That Stopped The German Advance for a Full Day

On June 22, 1941, Germany and the Axis powers commenced Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union along a 2,900 km front with a…

Hit By Shrapnel Which Almost Tears Off Arm, Pries Own Grenade From Now Immobile Hand & Throws It At The Germans

Senator Daniel Inouye served in the United States Senate from 1963 until his death in 2012.  At the time of his death, he was America’s…

A Nightmarish Place – The Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp

The Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp lies just North of Linz, in Austria. It was one of the first large concentration camps created in Nazi Germany and…