13 minutes earlier and Hitler would have been dead
There were many assassination attempts on Hitler from the time he began to rise in Germany’s political scene in the early 1930s, all the way…
The Story of Stanley Hollis – The Soldier the Nazis Couldn’t Kill
The Second World War revealed over the years the stories of many heroes who gave their lives for their country in acts of boundless courage.…
The captured OSS agent who convinced an entire German Army to surrender!
Frederick Mayer was born in Baden Germany, in a Jewish family. He worked in Germany for a while after finishing High School education, working as…
RAF Pilot Ray Holmes who RAMMED a German bomber to stop it hitting Buckingham Palace
Let us recall the story of daring RAF pilot Ray Holmes and how his downing of a German Dornier 17 bomber near Buckingham Palace became one…
Japanese Zero was the flagship enemy fighter aircraft during World War Two
Mitsubishi A6M3 Zero Model 22 (NX712Z), recovered from New Guinea in 1991 and used (with the atypical green camouflage shown) in the film Pearl Harbor…
A look at Buchenwald concentration camp
Buchenwald concentration camp was the first to be liberated by the Allies in April 1945, at the end of World War Two. The US Army’s…
‘Dyffryn Aled’ – the Colditz of Wales where 3 German Officers Escaped and Nearly got on a waiting U-Boat
A rich aristocratic lady lived a very content life in her 25-bedroom late-Georgian country estate called Dyffryn Aled, in the Welsh countryside. During the First…
German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel – The Desert Fox who earned the respect of the British
[Via] Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was perhaps the only German leader during the Second World War who was regarded with honour by the British. Rommel…
Big Guns – Battleship USS Missouri Shock & Awe [WATCH]
BB-63, the USS Missouri “Mighty Mo” is an Iowa-class United States Navy Battleship, the third that was named in honor of the US state of…
Nazi’s Lebensborn Project – Breeding the next generation Super Race of Aryans
During World War Two around 12,000 blue-eyed, blond children were kidnapped by the Nazi’s elite security service, the SS. The children were kidnapped as part…
AMAZING! Weapons from WWII embeded into trees in Nevsky Pyatachok – Russia
The Second World War left its mark on the world, as it was discovered by accident in Russia a few years ago, in a region…
Part I: The US Army Tests the Firefly, article by World of Tanks
World of Tanks Military Specialist, Nicholas The Chieftain Moran: There are various stories going around about how the US Army was foolish for…