Greeks look to World War One reparations as way out of debt
[Via] The Greek debt crisis has dominated the news for weeks now, and as Greece tries to work out how it can get out of…
American Researcher Donates U.S. Airmen’s Records to the American Air Museum at IWM Duxford, England
WW2 Researcher Bill Beigel hopes to reunite airmen’s stories with families searching for answers American military casualty researcher William L. “Bill” Beigel, who has researched…
World War Two’s Eastern Front: 8 Facts You Must Know
These are 8 facts every history buff must know about the Eastern Front of World War Two. WWII’s Eastern Front, between June 1941 to May 1945 – Nazi Germany under…
Ghosts of the Gooney Bird Volume 3 – By Hans Wiesman
In my previous Blogs Ghosts of the Gooney Bird, I showed pictures of crashed , lost and derelict Douglas C-47’s/ DC-3’s/ Dakotas. Most of them…
8 Famous Recipients of the Purple Heart
It is a common knowledge that the Purple Heart is a US military award given to servicemen and women who were injured [or killed] by…
World War II Veterans Look Back On The Most Extraordinary Days Of Their Lives
It is very hard to imagine in 2015, the life and times of the people who lived through the most brutal clash of human history,…
The Black Americans of WWII: Seventy Years and Still Fighting for Recognition
Black Americans – about one million of them – are one group of US soldiers who fought bravely like anybody else during the Second World…
WWII Douglas C-47 Rescued by CAF
A plane that played a crucial role in WWII by leading the D-Day invasion has been discovered in a scrapyard in United States. The fate…
Tributes Paid to the 101st Airborne Division in Normandy
On the eve of, perhaps the most celebrated WWII victory ‘the D-Day’ the largest airborne fleets were about to write history by invading Nazi controlled…
Could a Wartime Music Sheet Hold the Secret to Hitler’s Treasure Stash? Violin Maker Says Yes!
For violin maker Cyril Whistler, music is a treasure literally, that is, the wartime music sheet of Gottfried Federlein’s Marsch-Impromptu as according to him, it holds…
Remake of Beloved Soviet Film “The Dawns Here Are Quiet” Criticized
“Too Hollywood-sy” . . . that was how the recent remake of the beloved Soviet war film The Dawns Here Are Quiet was described when it premiered just last…
Dc-3, Icon of Victory. Part 2, D-Day+6, Top Brass flies into Normandy’s Advanced Landing Ground
On D-Day+6, 12 June 1944, the Allied forces have settled on the Normandy Beach heads, with artificial Sea Ports and Advanced Landing Grounds (ALG’s). See…