“The French American” Movie maker gets to use real WWII B-17 flying fortress
Film producer and director, Darla Rae can’t believe her luck. Darla is making a movie called The French American and has gotten her hands on…
The Hunt For America’s Missing In Action From WWII Continues
Papua New Guinea is littered with the remains of hundreds of Americans that are still missing in action (MIA) during the Second World War. It is…
British WWI Mark II Tank – Training Tanks
The seventh in a series of short films about some of the vehicles in our collection presented by The Tank Museum’s historian David Fletcher MBE.…
The Battle of Midway: Turning the Tide in the Pacific
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…
A Country for a Company – The 1954 US Backed Guatemalan Coup To Support United Fruit Company
The United Fruit Company (UFC) was once so powerful that the US government destroyed democracy in a country for it. It started in 1931 when…
You Think You Know Your Uniforms – Check to See if You Do! 50 Amazing Images of WWII Uniforms
A Military uniform is the standardized dress worn by members of the armed forces and paramilitaries of various nations. Military dress and military styles have…
Did You Know? Poland’s Boy Scouting Association formed a resistance army in WWII & fought in the Warsaw Uprising, assassinated SS officials & liberated a concentration camp
Gray Ranks” was a codename for the underground paramilitary Polish Scouting Association during World War II. The wartime organisation was created on 27 September 1939, actively resisted…
Escape From Sobibor – The first of this group triggered the mines, were wounded and killed, but the others who crossed the area…
The Nazi extermination camp, Sobibór, was located in the modern borders of Poland, in a region which was named Lublin during the German occupation. It…
Blisteringly sexy, she killed Nazis with her bare hands and had a 5 million-franc bounty on her head
The books and moments of history are filled with memorable names, courageous figures, and moments of sheer ingenuity. Yet not all names are as well…
DEVOTION – An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship and Sacrifice – Review by Mark Barnes
This latest book by Adam Makos has all the ingredients of a Christmas period chart topper. His track record is pretty solid to say the…
Star Trek star shot two snipers on D-Day and was shot seven times in WWII
He saw action during WWII and in outer space. His exploits inspired many to enter the engineering profession, while one followed him to the moon.…
Herman Goering’s Catalogue of Stolen Masterpieces Published
The right hand man of Adolf Hitler Herman Goering kept a very detailed catalogue of the stolen art masterpieces confiscated from the occupied Europe. For…