World War One time capsule found at local school
A time capsule from World War One has been found at a local British school in Hertfordshire, north of London. The capsule is a trunk…
The T-26 Light Tank – Review by Phil Hodges
Ok, ok. Great battle tanks of the Second World War? The Russian T-26 doesn’t exactly spring to mind does it? I mean, it’s Russian and its…
WWI Stories: Ivanhoe Avon, the Great War and the Pennies that Saved His Life
Know the story of Ivanhoe Avon, the WWI soldier who owed his life to two pennies and who, through the course of the Great War,…
Nuremberg rally ground where the Nazi’s held their annual parades may be renovated
Calls to have the Nuremberg rally ground restored and made into a permanent memorial and reminder of the evil of Nazism have been raised by…
Josef Mengele – Nazi’s Angel of Death
Josef Mengele got his nickname the ‘angel of death’ because of his disturbing fascination with human experiments, which he conducted on a mass scale at…
Seventy-year old letter written on Nazi stationery is kept for posterity
For the first time in the history of the Jewish community an American Jewish soldier got a hold of Adolf Hitler’s stationery. It was during…
World War II Pilot Reunited with his P-47 Thunderbold, 71 Years Later
When they told WW II pilot Charlie Screws that they had located the tail- fin from the Thunderbolt P-47 that he flew in the war, he…
The Lost Airfields of the Americans in the North Pacific
Scores of abandoned airfields and other military establishments sit atop small atolls littering the North Pacific Ocean. These edifices were built by the Americans and…
The Bunker Bash
Mark Barnes describes a day exploring the Atlantic Wall with WHO colleague Joris Nieuwint and other friends back in December. Batterie Waldam. Winter may be…
Auschwitz-Birkenau: Drone video of Nazi concentration camp
This chilling drone video was shot by the BBC and shows the enormity of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp as it is today – over 70…
Jim Martin, a veteran 101st Airborne paratrooper tells his story, personally on Facebook
To celebrate the D-Day anniversary in Normandy, France, 93 year-old veteran paratrooper Jim Martin once again did a parachute jump over Normandy. Mr. Martin served…