New Film Highlights Roles of Women in WWII Resistance
A new film, Anthropoid, seeks to set the record straight on the oft-overlooked contributions women in the Czechoslovakian resistance. The movie focuses on Operation Anthropoid,…
Must-Know Facts About The Bolo Knife – History, Development And Use Of An Iconic Weapon
Imperial forces around the world, whether they came to the battle with muskets and cannons or machine guns and fighter planes, have come to fear…
Bren Gun vs MG 34 Spandau – Two Important Machine Guns of WW2 Examined
The light machine gun was an important weapon of World War II. Designed to support infantry, it could be carried and operated by a single…
“Monty’s Functional Doctrine” – Book Review by Mark Barnes
Big name writers from Chester Wilmot onwards have offered up mixed opinions of the performance of British formations during the North-West Europe campaign of 1944-45.…
German Dog Tags From WW1 To Be Returned Home
A dog tag that belonged to a German soldier in World War I is to be returned to his family. A New Zealand soldier brought…
The 8 Most Wanted Nazi Criminals Who Are Still At Large
Each year since 2001, Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center produces an Annual Status Report on the Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi war…
Tanks vs Bridges – the Bridges Lost the Battle
Check out this collection of images of tanks that proved too heavy for the bridges they were driving on. All but one of these fascinating…
The American WWII Ace Who Shot Down 7 German, 1 Italian, 1 Japanese, And 1 American Plane
During WWII, an American fighter pilot saw combat over all three Axis territories. By war’s end, he had destroyed Italian, German, and Japanese planes… oh,…
John Basilone, WW2 Hero Dramatised by HBO, to Have New Warship Named in His Honour
If you’ve ever seen the HBO miniseries The Pacific, you may have heard of the name John Basilone (played by Jon Seda). Well, on Tuesday,…
Books Commemorating WW2 Tragedy, Donated To England By The USA, Have Been Lost to History
It was in August of 1944 when the little village of Freckleton, in Lancashire, England experienced a most terrible air disaster. The pilot of an…
No Criminal Charges Bought in Vintage M-18 Hellcat Explosion That Killed Two in the US
In October of 2015, two men were killed when the M-18 Hellcat they were both in violently exploded. After nearly a year of investigations, it…
Le Paradis – Where the SS Murdered 97 British Prisoners on May 27th 1940
In 1940, members of the British military were slaughtered – after they had surrendered to German forces. Two survived, but no one believed their story.…