WWII | War History

Operation Market Garden – Situation Report: September 17th, 1944

Joris Nieuwint

A day-to-day account of Operation Market Garden, as it happened in 1944.  Eindhoven At Veghel the 501st PIR was dropped on two drop zones to…

WHO-Tube WWII Battle of Arnhem: “Theirs is the Glory” (1946) (Fulll movie)

Joris Nieuwint

“Re-enactment of World War 2 Battle of Arnhem. Later lavishly remade as A Bridge Too Far.” Part of Operation Market Garden, the Battle of Arnhem…

CARRIERS AT WAR 1939-1945 – Review by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes

CARRIERS AT WAR 1939-1945 By Adrian Stewart Published by Pen & Sword Maritime ISBN: 978 1 78159 156 7 Review by Mark Barnes for War…

Remembering Charles Lindbergh and His Infamous Rhetoric

Charles Lindbergh — his solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927 earned him the name Lone Eagle and made him a celebrity all over the…

Borneo: WWII Shipwrecks Ravaged by Divers

Kuching: Divers freely loot two shipwrecks of Japanese WWII war ships off the coast of Santubong stripping them bare of historical artifacts — relics that…

Soviet Spy G.A. Vartanyan – The man who saved the Big Three – Overlooked WWII Hero?

WWII’s Big Three – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, US President Theodore Roosevelt and Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin – were almost ‘assassinated’ in the Tehran Conference…

Dr. Death and the Seven Jewish Dwarfs

May 19, 1944 – When Perla Ovitz and her family were lifted off the train shortly after arriving in Auschwitz that fateful Friday, the SS…

Cold War Airlift Site to Affordable Housing Complex

BERLIN, GERMANY – the city government of Berlin plans to turn Templehof airport complex, an airlift site that played a vital role during the Cold…

An Honor Seventy Years Late

It had been seventy years since Robert Eagleton was put out of combat duty during the World War II due to a hot shrapnel hit.…

Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Soviet’s Female Star Sniper

When the most countries of the world avoid putting women in the front line for some reasons during the World War II, the Soviet Union…

University Archives Hold Taped Personal Interview with Hitler’s Pilot

Wayland Baptist University’s archives hold a one-of-a-kind document which could give hearers and readers a different perspective about Hitler and World War II — a…

“Making Bomb” Guide Online Sparks Debate

Intense debate followed when Australia’s National Archive added a rough course to making bombs and has featured it online. The said documents brought up worried…