Don’t Miss This Video: 101st Airborne Award Ceremony Carentan, June 1944
Watch the 101st Airborne Division Silver Star awards ceremony, which took place on 20 June 1944 at the Place De La République in Carentan, France.…
Assembling and Launching A V-2 Rocket – The First Long-Range Ballistic Missiles (Watch)
The V-2 rockets were the first ever successful long-range guided ballistic missiles. In a lack of effective long-range strategic bombers, the Nazis turned to constructing…
Firing Rounds In Texas – A 1919 Browning Automatic Rifle – Locked On Full Auto
The Browning Automatic Rifle, or simply BAR, proved to be one of the most reliable weapons of the Second World War. Developed on the eve…
Know Your Ally – This Is How American Soldiers Were Prepared For Life In Britain (Watch)
In order to overcome cultural differences, the United States War Department and Signal Corps produced a series of documentaries that compared US citizens and their…
The Shetland Bus – Escape, Survival & Adventure To Keep Norwegian Resistance In The Fight
Europe during the Second World War was a bleak place; German forces invaded Norway on the 9th of April, 1940, and as the country was…
Death Of D-Day Veteran Just One Week After Being Awarded France’s Highest Honor
Only one week after receiving France’s Legion d’Honneur medal a D-Day veteran has died in Bradford, England after a sudden visit to the hospital. Skipton…
Anonymous Author Pieces Together the Secret Story Of The SAS In WW2 With New Book
The story of Edwin Weaver and other Special Air Service and Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) members killed in action from 1941 to 1947 has…
Decorated WWII Veteran Pilot Gets One Last Flight In His Plane
Frank Royal is a 101-year-old veteran of World War II. He was born in Colorado during World War I. He was in college, studying to…
WW2 Veteran Owes His Life To The Atomic Bomb Which Ended The War
If not for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945, Gordon Highlander Alistair Urquhart wouldn’t have lived to 97. Urquhart died recently from natural…
These 44 Pictures From The Atlantic Wall Show What The Allies Were Up Against On D-Day
In June 1944, the Western-Allies had a tough test to pass. They had to breach the formidable Atlantic Wall, defended by the mighty German army.…
Japanese Fire Balloons and the Tragic Tale of the Last WWII Casualties on US Soil
The Revolutionary and the Civil War tore North America apart, but the World Wars and most subsequent conflicts have been largely fought beyond its borders –…
FUSAG: Patton’s D-Day Army That Didn’t Exist
An army can help win a war without even existing. Strange as that may seem, this is exactly what happened in the case of the First United…