The Battle of Waterloo: Getting to Know the Iron Duke
With the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo fast approaching, let us get to know the Duke of Wellington, the Iron Duke, who caused the…
50 Years of C-47 Gunship conversions, Spooky man hunts from Vietnam to Colombia – By Hans Wiesman
The first C-47’s converted as “Gunships” flew in Dec. 1964 in Vietnam and their controversial start showed instantly tremendous successes in the close air support,…
U-1206 – The Only Sub to be Sunk By a Dump on the Toilet
The U-1206 was commissioned on March 16, 1944 and a type 7C U-boat. This type U-Boat was equipped with a new type of toilet designed…
Easy Company – Band of Brothers – The Crossroads Battle Explained
Introduction – The Island It is October 2nd, 1944, the 101st Airborne has completed its tasks on Hells Highway around Veghel and Eindhoven and has…
‘Give away: Fury’ DVD & Blu-ray a World of Tanks Fury Tank for PC & family day out
The Tank museum in Bovington in October last year opened the ‘Fury’ exhibition was sponsored generously by Wargaming, an award-winning online game developer and…
Archive of Evil donated to University of Colorado
A Turkish-born businessman has left the largest private Holocaust collection of evidence, documents, artifacts and memorabilia to the University of Colorado’s Jewish Studies program in…
Remnants from Iraq-Iran war seen from space
The International Space Station (ISS) has been picking up images of earth, and particularly of the war torn border between Iraq and Iran. The images…
I ESCAPE! – Review by Wayne Osborne
This book was first published by John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd in 1927 and no prizes for guessing what it is about! This is…
World War Two Reenactor Shot In Stomach by Live Round
A World War Two re-enactment went terribly wrong in Jacksboro, Texas in February when a man was hit with live ammunition. Participants gathered for the…
The story of Stanley Mathews and John Thorogood KIA 21-9-1944
This is the short story of the death of two young tankers in 4 troop, C-squadron, 44th Royal Tank Regiment. They are named Stan Matthews…
War History: Ten Women Working for the Enemy
Women were not generally accepted within the battlefields of war history yet they played vital roles in the two major war efforts as well were…
A rough guide of the costs of guns during WWII
We know that millions of weapons were made during WWII – but do we know the cost of their production? This isn’t a bulletproof guide,…