War History Online was recently given access to Kevin Wheatcroft’s Schnellboot S130 restoration. The complete article can be accessed below by everybody and is a good example of the extra content that can be accessed by our subscribers. The restoration is a huge project and will take a while however War History Online will be bringing our subscribers [...]
I read a lot of books and it’s fair to say that a lot of the stuff that passes my eyes leaves something to be desired. I have seen some books lately which are not only badly written, but poorly edited and leave me wondering how they ever get to print, let alone how anyone would pay their hard earned [...]
When the casket is lowered into the very ground Dwight Ekstam died protecting, it will contain a Marine officer’s uniform and, beneath that, what was left of Ekstam’s body when it was dug from a far-away mountainside. 68 years later- Ekstam finally is coming home. The only way his family could be happier is if his little brother had lived [...]
Local fishermen found an intact U.S. Corsair plane from World War II while spear fishing in Koror waters Wednesday. Spear fishing were Ngatibuchel Uchel and Aikman Megreos, Ililau Bausoch, Skilang Ililau, Dairon Rediall and Sabadong Ngirbedul. They then called Neco Marine owner Shallum Etpison to find out if this was a known wreck site. Shallum has worked in the past [...]
The undercover British officer crept silently through the bushes, his tartan kilt a bizarre form of dress for a man who did not want to be conspicuous. Then he stopped to take in the awesome might of the enemy. Through the gloom, he could make out the 15,000 battle-scarred men and 200 machines of the cruellest and most feared of [...]
Italy wants to put on trial an 89-year-old German former Nazi soldier for his alleged involvement in a notorious wartime massacre in Greece that was portrayed in Louis de Berniere’s novel and subsequent film, “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin”. Marco De Paolis, a Rome military prosecutor, claimed that Alfred Stork, who served as a corporal in the Wehrmacht, ordered the execution of [...]
The families of RAF Bomber Command servicemen have said the ticketing process for the unveiling of a monument for the crew who died in World War II has been confusing and unclear. They said many people had been waiting for invitations to the dedication of the monument in central London in June. The Bomber Command Association, which is organising the [...]
A German V2 rocket from World War II has been found nose down in the mud flats at Harwich Harbour. Royal Navy divers said it was buried vertically with about 1.5m (5ft) of its tail exposed at low tide. Bomb disposal teams will look at the rocket at low tide on Friday as they try to work out how much [...]
Posing tentatively in their uniforms, at first glance they could be a Lancaster Bomber crew preparing for a daring war-time mission. But these photos were not taken 70 years ago, but this week at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre – the former Lancaster bomber base at RAF East Kirkby.Admirers of the war-time planes stepped back in time to relive the [...]
Mobile WWII battlefield App is taking the sites by storm. When Lydia Phillips decided to trace the footsteps of her great uncle, who was killed on the Somme in 1916, she did not expect her new found interest in war history to spark a business venture. To learn more about this unique App the click on the PDF download [...]
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