World War 2 | War History

Saving Private Ryan: 21 Facts! Mel Gibson Was Considered For Capt Miller… Seriously!!!!

Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 film set during the Invasion of Normandy in June 1944. It was directed by Steven Spielberg and stars Tom…

THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE – Review by Mark Barnes

This book from our friends in Barnsley is from a series I don’t think I’ve had dealings with before. Regardless of this I thoroughly enjoyed reading…

Operation Market Garden In Color!

Operation Market Garden was the plan by Field Marshal Montgomery to outflank the German fortified Siegfried line by going through The Netherlands. The Netherlands is…

The Bone Collector of Guadalcanal

Seventy years after the last rifle shot, Japanese soldiers are still going home. Roderick Eime, sends one fallen warrior on his way. He’d lay there…

Stalin’s son Yakov Dzhugashvili captured by the Germans. He ‘died’ in a PoW camp

Holly Godbey

Everyone knows Joseph Stalin, but most aren’t familiar with his familial life, particularly his eldest son, Yakov. The tumultuous relationship between father and son created…

Gandhi’s Letters to Adolf Hitler

Mahatma Gandhi believed he could achieve his objectives through non-violent means. Adolf Hitler believed in the exercise of military might and the power of rhetoric.…

10 Things You Never Knew About WWII

Everyone learns about World War II from their high school history classes. It’s inevitable. Hitler’s tyranny, the Holocaust, the attack on Pearl Harbor; these events…

The Battle of Midway: Turning the Tide in the Pacific

Guest Author

Six months after the Pearl Harbor attack, the Japanese planned to lure the American aircraft carriers into a trap at Midway Islands. Imperial Japan’s overall…

Edward A. Carter, Jr. received the Medal of Honor for killing six soldiers & using the surviving two as a bodysheild.

Edward Allen Carter Junior was born on May 26th, 1916 in Los Angeles, California. Carter had a unique upbringing. His father was an African-American missionary,…

MUST SEE: 21 Amazing Aerial Shots Of Bombed Out Berlin Shortly After The War……

Following the end of World War II, photographer Hein Gorny took spectacular aerial shots of the ravaged German capital. These were the first, if not…

Saved his Men: Picked up the Grenade & Ran Towards the Enemy Killing Them & Him in the Explosion – he was a Dog

Jack Beckett

Gander was a Newfoundland dog who was originally a family pet named Pal. When Pal accidentally scratched a child’s face, the owner was concerned that…

Captured B-17 Bombers in World War II

Ever wondered what happened with a B-17 that made an emergency landing in occupied territory? When captured (relatively) intact they were tested by the Germans…