World War 2 | War History

WW2: Accidental Detonation of 4,000 Tons of Explosives In England Killed 70 and Scarred the Land Forever

On November 27th, 1944, seismologists in Switzerland at first thought it was an earthquake, hardly guessing the seismograph recorded the effects of a massive explosion…

Author’s Latest Work Tells Tale Of Operation Torch In WWII

Vincent O’Hara has written or co-written eleven books about military history.  Most of them were published by the Naval Institute Press, who named him their…

A Small German Museum Displays A Big Collection Of Uncomfortable Art From The Nazi Era

Scary. Concerning. There are, perhaps, no two adjectives that so accurately describe Nazi art. “Museum Unter Tage” in Bochum is showing Nazi artworks to show…

Thousands March In Red Square To Commemorate Russian Sacrifice In WW2

Russia commemorated the 75th anniversary of the parade in 1941 when Soviet Union soldiers headed for the wartime front lines of WWII. Thousands of Russian…

Incredible Footage: 101st Airborne On The Eve Of D-Day, June 5, 1944

The 101st Airborne Division is a unit of infantry, paratroopers, of the United States Army trained for air assault operations. They were dropped by parachute…

Harrowing Stories From Iwo Jima: One Man’s Life Onboard A Landing Ship Tank In 1945

Gabe Christy

Iwo Jima is a small island in the Southeast Pacific; rocky and dominated by a large volcano on its southern peninsula. Today, there is no…

Sir Winston Churchill – The Greatest Briton Ever

In 2002, the BBC launched a nationwide poll asking Britons who they thought the Greatest Briton was. Among those nominated were William Shakespeare and Princess…

Second World War Pilot’s Heroic WW2 Service Recognized With Silver Star Medal

Seventy-three years after his heroic action in the fall of 1943, Army Air Corps 2nd Lt. John G. Caraberis was recognized with the posthumous awarding…

A World War II Veteran Who Fought At Normandy And The Battle Of The Bulge – He Made It Home In 1945

The stories which veteran Bob Grobelny of Westlake, Ohio, could tell of his Second World experiences would fill a book…or two. Now 94, he saw…

Massively Super-Sized Siege Guns From World War One And Two

In the 19th century, transport limitations restricted the size of artillery. If a piece of equipment could not be pulled by horses, then it could…

The Centurion Tank – One Of The Longest-Serving Tank Designs In History

The Centurion tank’s first prototypes appeared among the Allied troops in Belgium in 1945. The tank was a successor of prior designs such as the…

They Called Him “Mad Jack” – The Sword-Wielding, Bagpipe-Playing Longbowman Of WWII

Once upon a time in France, a soldier attacked his enemies with a sword and a longbow. When not doing so, he enjoyed playing bagpipes,…