MIA: No man left behind? Two B-24 crash sites off the northern Italian Coast – By Bill Beigel
Two crews from the 449th Bomb Group were lost 13 months apart; one in January of 1944; the other in February of 1945. Both went…
WWII: Gunner fell 22,000 feet WITHOUT a parachute and survived
S/Sgt. Alan E. Magee poses for the camera, halfway into the tight confines of the ball turret of a B-17 Flying Fortress. [Via] Ranked among…
Moving Inscriptions Left by WWI Soldiers Discovered in French Tunnels
Moving inscriptions made by WWI soldiers were discovered recently by an archaeologist in a series of French tunnels while he was investigating these passageways’ medieval…
A WWII Paratrooper from the ‘Battle of Arnhem’ dies at the age of 90
A World War II paratrooper who took part in the Battle of Arnhem has recently died. He was 90. Philip Letchford was among those paratroopers…
Imber – ‘Ghost village’ of WWII
The former Seagrams Farm A small village in Wiltshire called Imber is famously known as the ‘Ghost village’ of the Second World War. During World…
Achtung Panzer! 30 panzer wrecks & some you wouldn’t have seen before!!!
The Greatest Tank of WWII was the Tiger I?? Maybe the best KNOWN overall, and the most notorious, but far from the greatest. This tank was…
10 Amazing pictures of Tinians MASSIVE B-29 Bases and one picture to make you cry!
After the battle for the Tinian island, which lasted from 24 July until 1 August 1944, the island became a very important base for Allied…
Bagpiper Millin: Some Germans who claimed to have seen him didn’t shoot because they believed he was crazy.
Bill Millin, aged 21, was considered to be unarmed on June 6th, 1944 as he jumped from the landing slope in Normandy on Sword Beach.…
Japanese historians challenge US publishers on the subject of ‘Comfort Women’
A group of historians from Japan is challenging the depiction, in US history textbooks, of women trafficked to Japanese military brothels during World War II.…
Churchill had planned to thank US with a copy of Magna Carta
As a gesture of gratitude for its active support for the British cause in World War II, the Prime Minister of Britain, Winston Churchill, had…
Japanese Veteran was refused a seat at a WWII memorial ceremony
After having survived one of the bloodiest conflicts in the Pacific War, a Japanese veteran was told he could not join other Japanese attendees at…
World War Two US soldiers honored in the Netherlands
Thousands of World War Two US soldiers who were killed in action are being honored in the Netherlands. One of them is Stanley McNivick from…