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…
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:…
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…
WWII Vet Set to Return Japanese Shin Gunto He Took as ‘Souvenir’
Traditional Japanese beliefs state that one’s own personal sword holds the owner’s soul. Swords and sword making still holds a prominent place in Japanese culture…
Operation Market Garden – Daily SitRep – September 18th, 1944
A day-to-day account of Operation Market Garden, as it happened in 1944. Written by Joris Nieuwint for Hells Highway tours. Eindhoven Eindhoven is liberated by the 506…
In Honour of WWII Polish Airmen
A huge crowd of civic dignitaries, scouts, air cadets, RAF Northolt personnel and veterans came together last September 7 for a ceremony in honor of…
Cambridge Military Hospital: Nostalgic Look at Its Historic Past,the hospital remained in use right up until the first Gulf War
In the small city of Aldershot, Hampshire sits a sprawling abandoned structure with a lone clock tower looking forlornly above the city’s horizon. The building…