World War 2 | War History

After Being Demoted to Private Nine Separate Times, This Canadian Was Awarded the Victoria Cross

If you ask any combat infantryman, you will hear that there are men who make their life easy in garrison and men who make their…

The 5 Best D-Day Movies Ever!

72 years after D-Day, the successful invasion of France has been featured in countless movies, series and computer games. Because we know you don’t have time…

The W.A.V.E Who Wowed Frank Sinatra

Is it possible Frank Sinatra would be crooning a tune to the girls in the Navy? Yes indeed. It happened at the Woman Accepted for…

It Took A Media Storm To Get This WW2 Hero Gurkha VC Recipient Entry To The UK

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Tul Bahadur Pun was a Gurkha who won many awards for his heroism in WWII. He even received the highest honor that the British could…

Documentary Recreated Colditz Castle Escape Attempt Using A Glider

A Channel 4 documentary has recreated a 1945 World War Two British Army plan whereby British Army prisoners held at Colditz Castle were plotting to…

From Texas to Japan aboard a LST – Putting The Men Ashore To Win The War

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The United States Navy didn’t closely scrutinized the paperwork for some of its recruits during World War II. Indeed, it wasn’t unheard of for date…

3 Urban Legends of War That Are Actually True… And One That Is Not

Legends, stories, and anecdotes are woven through the quilt of veteran and civilian experiences of war. We gain new words from war slang, and the…

Tommy Prince, Native Canadian, Was So Quiet, Sometimes In Stead Of Killing Germans He Would Steal Something From Them

Tommy Prince was born on October 15th, 1915, in Scanterbury Manitoba Canada in a family of eleven siblings. He left school at an early age…

Volunteer Body Hunters in Search of Russia’s WWII Fallen

Russia’s volunteer body hunters — individuals who are willing to devout their time and effort to scouring previous WWII battlefields to look for the remains…

Germany Finally Removes Nazi Laws from its Legal Code

Like many other aspects of the German society, Nazis paid special heed towards the justice system to compliment their evil motives.  Adolf Hitler authorized a…

10 Most Deadly Snipers of WWII

Images Used (Clockwise from top left): (1) Soviet Union had over 2,000 women snipers operating in 1943 during WWII. One of them, Lieutenant Lyudmila Pavlichenko…

Chilling Footage Of A B-17 Going Down

As you’ll see in this historical footage, a B-17 squadron gets attacked by Nazi fighters. Though tough to watch, the audio from the intercom (voiced…