Goodbye, WWII RAF Squadron Leader Harvey Nelson Sweetman [1921-2015]
Harvey Nelson Sweetman, a WWII Squadron Leader who served with the Royal Air Force’s 486 [NZ] Squadron during the said conflict, passed away Thursday, January 15. The…
WWII Japanese Hand Grenade Stored in Garage for Over a Decade Detonated by Bomb Squad
Oklahoma City – Rick Young learned the lesson of not assuming anything the “explosive” way when he discovered a live WWII Japanese hand grenade sitting inside…
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
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
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:
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…