Operation Market Garden – Daily Situation Report – September 22nd, 1944
A day-to-day account of Operation Market Garden, as it happened in 1944. Written by Joris Nieuwint for Hells Highway tours. Arnhem Two troops of the 2nd…
‘The Railway Man’: WWII Drama that Explores Understanding on the Effects of War (with Trailer)
2013 is a year of biopics; one such is the film adaptation of Eric Lomax’s memoirs – a story of despair, hurt but is tinged…
Operation Market Garden – Daily Situation Report – September 21st, 1944
A day-to-day account of Operation Market Garden, as it happened in 1944. Written by Joris Nieuwint for Hells Highway tours. Nijmegen The final assault on Arnhem…
WWI Gallipoli Springs to Life in Decrepit Photos
The old photographs made the grim reality of World War I look so real — grubby trenches packed with equally dirty soldiers…juvenile Diggers carrying equipment…
Restoration of WWII Mustang Model in Chanute Air Museum Completed
Norm Meyers consented to work on a North American P-51H Mustang on display at Chanute Air Museum believing that what he had to do was…
Operation Market Garden – Daily Situation Report – September 20th, 1944
A day-to-day account of Operation Market Garden, as it happened in 1944. Written by Joris Nieuwint for Hells Highway tours. Nijmegen At Nijmegen the combined…
DEATH WAS OUR BEDMATE – Review by Mark Barnes
DEATH WAS OUR BEDMATE 155th (Lanarkshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment and the Japanese 1941-1945 By Agnes McEwan and Campbell Thomson Published Pen & Sword Military ISBN:…
The Tank Museum – Vehicle Conservation Centre Opening
Years of planning and hard work was celebrated yesterday as The Tank Museum’s new, Heritage Lottery funded, conservation centre was officially opened. Historian and Museum…
Operation Market Garden – September 19th, 1944 – Daily Situation Report
A day-to-day account of Operation Market Garden, as it happened in 1944. Written by Joris Nieuwint for Hells Highway tours. Eindhoven The ground forces have repaired…
Remembering the Forgotten Battalion
When marines belonging to the H&S, G, H and I batteries, 3rd Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment left San Diego for combat war in the South Pacific…
New Shaftesbury World War II Monument Deemed ‘Illegal’
Shaftesbury Town Council is put under fire by the English Heritage for erecting a 6-foot war memorial just fifteen feet away from the ruins of…
Warsaw Supports Statue in Honor of Resistance Hero Witold Pilecki
Councillors of Poland’s capital city showed support in favor of a statue to honor resistance hero Witold Pilecki who is best known for imprisoning himself…