World War 2 | War History

Stunning Drone’s-Eye View Of Hitler’s Atlantic Wall Towers On Guernsey (Watch)

The Channel Islands were amongst the most heavily fortified parts of the Atlantic Wall. On 20 October 1941, Hitler signed a directive which was to…

Irena Sendler: The Unknown Hero Of The Warsaw Ghetto Who Saved 2,500 Children

Irena Sandler’s name is not as well-known as Oskar Schindler, but it should be. Schindler saved 1,200 Jews from the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia.  Sendler, his…

Killing Of German Prisoners After The End Of WW2 Is Remembered At Utah Museum

The murder of German prisoners of war shortly after WWII ended is to be remembered with a new museum at Salina, Utah. Dee Olsen and…

Brilliant Drone Footage Of Stalingrad Battle Reenactment (Watch)

Operation Winter Storm was certainly one of the most important events that took place during the bloody battle of Stalingrad. The city that represented the…

The Churchill Crocodile Flamethrower Tank Was A Terrifying Beast (Watch)

Watch some stunning footage of the British Flamethrower tank! The Crocodile was a modified Churchill tank,  fitted with a flamethrower in place of the hull…

Honor Flight Serves American Veterans Who Served Their Country

Harry Nicholas, 94, is a World War II vet who took the 12th Central Valley Honor Flight to see the World War II Memorial in…

Tears And Gratitude As Two Second World War Veterans Meet And Remember Their Service

Phyllis Bowman, mayor of Greenwood, Florida felt as if she was seeing history being made. It was a meeting between two World War II veterans, Albert…

Amazing – Public Donations Enabled American WWII Veteran To Return To Pearl Harbor 75 Years On

Robert Coles was helped to raise funds for a trip to Pearl Harbor to observe the 75th anniversary of the Japanese attack that he survived…

Aged 91, An American Veteran Remembers His Service – He Turned 19 On The Beach On D-Day

Percy Strothers spent his 19th birthday on the beach. But there wasn’t a beach party. This beach was at Normandy and the day was D-Day.…

Rockies Air And Space Museum Hosts 15 Honored American WWII Flying Aces

There were 1,500 pilots awarded the title American Fighter Ace in World War II. There are only 70 of those men are still alive today.…

Denmark Terminates the Investigation of Jewish Mass Murders During WWII

Helmuth Leif Rasmussen, a 91-year old Dane, will not be prosecuted.  He was accused of involvement in the mass killing of Jews, during World War…

Meet the Supermarine Spitfires – THE British Fighter of WWII

In early September of 2016, the Imperial War Museum presented an airshow at Duxford, U.K. to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the formation of the…