World War 2 | War History

After A Mid Air Collision – One Pilot Lands Two Planes AT ONCE!

In 1940, two planes collided in mid-air over Australia. Remarkably, there were no fatalities. Even more remarkably, the pilot responsible for saving the planes was…

The Night Fighter Ace Who Shot Down 7 Lancaster Bombers In 19 Minutes

Once you know the story of Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, it’s pretty hard to forget. Schnaufer was an incredibly skilled pilot. He was arguably the best fighter…

Two Soviet infantrymen frozen to death in their foxhole, Freezing to death is one of the most peaceful & non-violent ways of natural dying

Jack Beckett

Warning graphic content, click to see In the years 1939 and 1940, the Soviet Union and Finland were at war. The smaller Finnish army proved…

Victoria Cross: Took on 20 Taliban fighters, dodged “raking” machine fire to rescue a stricken US Marine

Jack Beckett

For saving the life of a US Marine, Briton Lance Corporal Joshua Leakey became the first living soldier to win the Victoria Cross for his…

Milne Bay – The first Japanese Land Defeat of the Second World War

Reprinted with permission from Australian Bunker and Military Museum Milne Bay is located on the south-eastern tip of Papua. Before World War II, most of the area’s…

BEAUTIFUL BUT DEADLY! The Fresh Faced Young Girls That Fought For Stalin

Soviet women played a major role in World War II  on the Eastern Front. While most women worked in the industry, agriculture, transport, and other…

Dirlewanger: A Violent Alcoholic, Sadist & War Criminal – Was Kicked to Death by His Guards

The notorious 36th Waffen Grenadier Divison of the SS earned its horrible reputation mostly on the Eastern Front where they freely conducted numerous war crimes…

The Friendly Invasion Returns to Suffolk: Welcoming Home Two Men of The Mighty Eighth

Often, my father frustratingly reflects on his 17 year stint in the office of a sugar beet factory through the realisation that almost every man…

25 mind blowing colourised images of WWII – Check Out LCT 325 in Action – She is Now Preserved

Jack Beckett

We are used to viewing the war in black and white. So when you get to see colourised images it brings the war to us…

Oh Yes! Inside the Maus – Has a Massive 44 Litre Engine – by World of Tanks

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Maus (“Mouse”) was a German World War II super-heavy tank completed in late 1944. It is the heaviest fully enclosed armoured fighting vehicle ever built.…

5 Insanely Creepy Stories of The World Wars

Ian Harvey

Undoubtedly war is an ugly business, but at times war forces humans to cross the boundaries of humanity and come up with ideas that could put the…

Operation Veritable – Armour & Special Equipment by World of Tanks

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“It was Spandau vs Bren the whole way through”  No matter how much I would like to detail the battle and planning of Operation Veritable…