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…
Japanese Kamikaze Attack On The US Fleet During The Pacific War – Original Footage (Watch)
The Second World War saw a number of new technological and strategic innovations on both sides. One particularly dark tactical move came towards the end…
John Reginald Gorman – The Amazing Irish Kamikaze, Busting Tanks In WW2
In WWII, the Germans had a reputation for their formidable technology. What they did not consider, however, was the formidable Irish reputation for bullishness. John…
The “Forgotten Blitz” In WW2 That Left Hundreds Dead And Thousands Homeless
During World War Two, Britain found itself facing the threat of air raids. German bomber planes would fly above cities and attempt to destroy factories contributing…
The Battle of the Bulge: A Doomed And Desperate Gamble At The End Of World War Two
A desperate gamble by a struggling army, the Battle of the Bulge was Hitler’s last great attempt to end the Second World War on terms…
10 Deadliest Snipers Of World War II
Highly trained and deadly, snipers are and have been an important aspect of warfare. The term, however, first came into use in British India in…
Four Valiant Stands From Both World Wars: These Men Kept Up The Fight When All Hope Was Lost
The Lost Battalion of WWI The Americans were eager to make their mark when their boys finally entered the Great War. The Americans had no…