Guest Blogger Geoff Moore: WAR CEMETERY IN YANGON
Although now 70 years ago the often then fierce jungle battles of the Burma campaign are in fact now virtually a lifetime in the past. But…
WATCH: An Extra’s Life – On the set of Band of Brothers
Band of Brothers was a 2001 TV series starring Damian Lewis, and produced by Stephen Spielberg and Tom Hanks. It is based on a book,…
Hells Highway – 101st Airborne Market Garden Battles South of Veghel (Part 1)
The date is September 24th 1944, Operation Market Garden has dragged on into it’s 6th day and the Germans are about to begin their last…
Vietnam War search for Cambodian “Bamboo Pentagon” headquarters
[Via] The entire Vietnam War is surrounded in controversy, but the attack on Cambodia is one that seemed the most needless and cost thousands of…
Rangers led the way during World War Two
[Via] The US Army’s Rangers section has been in operation since the mid-1700s and during World War Two it was crucial to the success of…
British teenagers caught stealing items from Auschwitz
[Via] Two schoolboys from the UK have been arrested in Poland after they were caught stealing objects from the Auschwitz concentration camp grounds. The two…
8 Low-Tech and Bizarre Tactics and Weapons Used in WWII
The Second World War that is remembered by the Atomic bomb’s mushroom cloud and V2 rockets, it is very hard to imagine that throughout the…
WITH HITLER IN THE WEST – Review by Mark Barnes
I don’t expect you to remember, but I reviewed the autobiography of Heinrich Hoffmann around three years ago. He stands as one of the great…
Restoring the iconic B-26 ‘Flak Bait’
Ah, that new car smell. New plane smell is nice, too. Bright and shiny and fresh is good, right? Sure, unless it is a very special…
Rare Photographs the Aftermath of Battle of Monte Cassino, ca. 1944
The Battle of Monte Cassino was a costly series of four assaults by the Allies against the Winter Line in Italy held by Axis forces…
8 Famous Recipients of the Purple Heart
It is a common knowledge that the Purple Heart is a US military award given to servicemen and women who were injured [or killed] by…
Ready for Part 1? Inside the Tiger 1 – by World of Tanks
The German Tiger tank is perhaps one of the most iconic vehicles of World War II, and at Tank Museum, Bovington in the UK, they…