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The Sturmtiger – Massive WW2 Tank With 380mm Rocket Launcher (Watch)

The Sturmtiger (‘Assault Tiger’) was an assault gun used by the Germans during World War II. It was built to support troops fighting in towns…

5 Unbelievable True Stories About WWII That Should be Made into Movies

Jack Beckett

What most of us remember about World War II from history classes boils down to who fought who, the Holocaust, the Nazis and how almost…

World War 2 Operation Bagration In colour

Operation Bagration

  In June of 1944, the Red Army carried out the Belorussian offensive that took place slightly over two weeks after the D-Day landings in…

History of British Tanks by World of Tanks

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British development The Landships Committee commissioned Lieutenant Walter Gordon Wilson of the Royal Naval Air Service and William Tritton of William Foster & Co. Ltd.…

WW2: Jäger Greifen An! – German Luftwaffe captured Gun Camera Footage

In the air war over Europe, by 1944, the Allies had overwhelming advantages in numbers. The Luftwaffe had to come out and attack the bomber formations…

WW II B-17 Survival Story – Virtually cut in half by a mid air collision with a German Fighter it got the crew home!

On February 1, 1943, there was a collision in mid-air between a B-17 bomber and a German fighter plane over the Tunis dock area in…

The Heavy Tank T26E3 Pershing – 1945

As the Second World War was coming to its end, the technologies on the battlefields of Europe were becoming more and more complex. The tank…

World War II As You’ve Never Seen it Before: In ORIGINAL Color!

When we think of World War 2 we think of black and white images and movies, however some of the cameramen were equipped with color…

The Greatest German General No One Has Heard Of – Lieutenant General Of Armored Troops Herman Balck

Herman Balck might be one of the most effective German Generals, whose actions are largely forgotten today. He came from a military family, his father,…

A Nightmarish Place – The Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp

The Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp lies just North of Linz, in Austria. It was one of the first large concentration camps created in Nazi Germany and…

The Weapons They Carried: 10 WWII Infantry Weapons That Were Crucial to the Fight

Colin Fraser

Let’s take a look at the top 10 WWII Infantry Rifles of WWII, both Allied and Axis. M1 Garand The M1 Garand was the standard…

Amazing story: WWII ghost B-17 completed its mission, then landed – no one was on board

A B-17 Flying Fortress landed perfectly at an RAF airbase and completes the full landing pattern as well. The bomber comes to a full stop;…