History Flight Achieves Burial In Arlington Cemetery For Long-Lost Second World War Marine
Thanks to the non-profit Florida-based History Flight Inc., the remains of Private Wilbur Mattern, a Second World War Marine killed during the fighting at Betio…
Dreadfully Injured, He Survived Pearl Harbor – When He Had Recovered, He Reenlisted To Fight Again
Donald Stratton is one of the lucky ones out of the 334 sailors who survived the attack on the USS Arizona by Japanese aircraft on…
The P-40 Kittyhawk Was Even Better Than The Spitfire, Says Former WW2 Pilot
Former P-40 fighter pilot John Bailey is of the opinion the P-40 ‘Kittyhawk’ was preferable to the renowned Spitfire. It was one of the best…
Five Ways Rationing Affected Christmas During World War Two
Christmas is a time of year when all the family comes together to celebrate. It is a time when food is plentiful, alcohol is flowing,…
Second World War C-47 Transport Plane Arrives At Flying Tigers Heritage Park
A venerable C-47, the transport workhorse airplane during the Second World War that was seemingly used everywhere, is going on permanent display at the Flying…
Rare PT Boat Is On The move From New Orleans, Scheduled For Launch In 2017
The launch of the PT-305, which will take passengers at $350 a pop, is set for March 25, 2017. The motor torpedo boat, nicknamed U.S.S.…
The United Kingdom’s Most Extraordinary Female World War Two Pilot
Very few pilots can brag that they flew an unknown airplane without training, using only a preflight checklist. Lettice Curtis, who died in 2014 aged…
Shooting In Slow Motion – The Invention That Gave The Germans The Advantage In The Air In WW1
Imagine the dilemma faced by a First World War fighter pilot in 1914 who risked damaging or shooting his airplane’s propeller off with rapid-firing machine…
The Slow Disappearance Of Second World War Wrecks At The Hands Of Illegal Salvagers
Dutch defense minister Jeanine Hennis has told Members of the Dutch Parliament in a written briefing that three of the nation’s warships sunk in the…
Nancy Wake: Special Ops Agent And The Gestapo’s Most Wanted
A British Special Ops agent during World War II, Nancy Wake was a wartime beauty, and not a person to be messed with. She was…
The First Man to Sink a Japanese Warship – The Battle Of Wake Island
Most people believe that although the Japanese succeeded in bombing Pearl Harbor during WWII, they never managed to occupy so much as an inch of American soil,…
Documentary “Ageless Friends” – An Unusual Friendship Between A Dutch Man And An American Soldier From Another Time
It was the fascination of the personal stories from the Second World War that brought him to the American Military Cemetery in Margraten. There, Maarten…