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The Drive to Save WWII Tales Becoming Urgent – Historians

  United States of America – There is a growing recognition among many historians that first-hand WWII tales – stories from the men and women who…

People paid £30 to be the prisoner of war in Nazi theme camp

Ian Harvey
Nazi theme camp

In Britain during the 1980s a holiday camp was set up at an unused hospital at Weyhill, near Andover in Hampshire. The basic concern of…

Wreck of the SS Thistlegorm in the Egyptian Red Sea

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By Super Jolly for War History Online: Underwater for 68 years, a snap shot in time and beautifully preserved WWII cargo so desperately needed by Allied…

Meet Olive Bailey, the Woman Who Worked with Alan Turing Cracking Nazi Codes during WWII

Olive Bailey was only a young woman when she worked in Bletchley Park during the Second World War but at 94, she remembers it all like…

A Look Inside Ravensbruck, the Nazis’ Death Camp for Women

  Get to know the stories inside Ravensbruck, the Nazis’ death camp for women during the Second World War, as written by author Sarah Helm…

Radio Antenna Used in the Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich Discovered

The radio antenna used by Czech resistance during the Second World War to plan the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the Third Reich’s most…

Equality in Everything Else: The Female Nazi Guards as Evil as the Men

Now that we know a fraction of the horrid things which went through the Nazis’ death camp for women, let us get to know the…

Winston Churchill, the man who loved to play with colors:

Ian Harvey

It is incredibly phenomenal that Winston Churchill, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, not only created some extraordinary scientific inventions, but he also…

10 Bizarre War Machines, Prototypes and Designs of WWII

Images used (Clockwise from top left): (1) A WWII SdKfz. 302 model of Goliath Tracked Mine, displayed at the Tank Museum in Munster, Germany in…

Goodbye, WWII Spy and Explosive Experts Sonia d’Artois [1924- 2014]

Sonia d’Artois, a member of the Special Operations Executive [SOE] who parachuted into France before the D-Day to gather intelligence, help with the resistance and…

The War Film Wave Ascends Again with “Unbroken”, “Fury”

The war film wave has been in existence ever since movie makers have decided wars were a theme interesting to be portrayed on films but…

Goodbye, Decorated Tuskegee Airmen Clarence Huntley Jr. and Joseph Shambrey Who Died on the Same Day

Clarence Huntley Jr. and Joseph Shambrey, both members of the famed all-black squadron during WWII – the Tuskegee Airmen – and lifelong friends who joined…