World War 2 | War History

5 Most Iconic War Photographs Of All Time

War photography has allowed the world to see the truth about the atrocities of some of the world’s biggest conflicts since as early as the…

Omar Bradley – 20 Fast Facts About The GI General

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I. Born as Omar Nelson Bradley but referred to as “Brad”, he was born on February 12, 1893, in Randolph County, which is in rural…

Legendary D-Day Piper Bill Millin Interviewed in 1984 – Landing on Sword Beach

Bill Millin, aged 21, was considered to be unarmed on June 6th, 1944 as he jumped from the landing slope in Normandy on Sword Beach.…

True: A Stranded Dutch Warship In WWII Disguising Itself As An Island To Evade Japanese Bombers

The Netherlands officially surrendered on May 15th, 1940. However, its Navy continued the fight. Part of the navy was deployed in the Dutch East Indies…

Hans-Ulrich Rudel – The Flying Tank Buster Who Flew More Than 2,000 Missions And Killed Over 500 Tanks

Hans-Ulrich Rudel was shot down 30 times during his 2,530 missions. He destroyed one battleship, one cruiser, one destroyer, 70 landing craft, 800 vehicles, 150…

The Rogue British Officer Who Broke All the Rules, Founded the SAS, and was Nicknamed by the Germans, “The Phantom Major”

Jeff Edwards

If there hadn’t been a global war for survival taking place, Major David Stirling is the type of British Officer who would have been thrown…

Smart, Beautiful, and Deadly, Russian Sniper Roza Shanina Made 54 Confirmed Kills in Less than a Year

Jack Beckett

In the deep silence of the vast Russian pine forest, a small, lonesome figure was walking. It was just a few years before the outbreak…

When 20 Canadian Prisoners Were Murdered By The Waffen SS In Normandy – The Ardenne Abbey Massacre

In the early days of the Normandy campaign 20 Canadian soldiers, members of the North Nova Scotia Highlanders and 27th Armoured Regiment (part of the…

Fearing Crash & Detonation On Takeoff, The First Atomic Bomb Had To Be Assembled In Flight

In 1945, the final days of World War II were coming to a close – but not before the world was forever changed. Over the…

The British Army’s Largest Tank Battle in 25 Stunning Images

Operation Goodwood in Normandy, France was a British offensive against the German forces at the end of July 1944. It is called by some historians…

How 60 Coast Guard Cutters Saved Over 400 Men On D-Day

Gabe Christy

“0530, accompanied invasion barges into shore under severe shelling attacks and with mines going up all around us. 0730, LCF-31 hit by shell 800 yards…

The Four Worst Mistakes Of The Axis Powers During WWII

Looking back at WWII there have been four decisions made that, in the end,  did not work out to the Axis advantage. Of course, you…