French pilot Yves Mahi single-handedly fought off 40 Nazi bombers that were attacking one of Britain’s most beautiful cities – on his first time in combat. Yves Mahi was returning from an RAF training flight in his Hawker Hurricane when he saw flames rising from York as it was pounded by the Luftwaffe. The 23-year-old Frenchman dived in with machine [...]
Bellingham resident Kenneth Cowden has driven all kinds of big rigs: military vehicles, gravel trucks and intimidatingly large logging trucks. But the most nerve-wracking ride of his life was driving a command car in 1943 with Gen. George Patton and French Gen. Charles de Gaulle – who would later become that country’s president – in the backseat, along with several [...]
During the Nazi regime, 7 million bank accounts were created in Switzerland. An estimated 60,000 of them were opened by Jews in a bid to salvage their property from the Nazis. Swiss banks systematically hid and destroyed records of bank accounts from the Holocaust period, thus preventing their owners from claiming their money and assets, according to a lawsuit set [...]
During his early days in the U.S. Navy, Thomas Glynn tapped the shoulder of an officer and requested he be put aboard a ship instead of land duty. Weeks later, he was serving aboard Landing Ship Tank 289, and was in the midst of an historic attack that was classified secret for decades. Glynn, 86, of Villas, Cape May County, [...]
BACM Research – PaperlessArchives.com has announced the publishing of the British SOE (Special Operations Executive) report on Operation Foxley, The British plan for the assassination of Adolf Hitler. To see read the complete description, see sample pages, or to obtain the documents go to: http://www.paperlessarchives.com/wwii_operation_foxley.html In 1944, the office of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), reduced plans to assassinate [...]
Some time in 1942, a lone Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk bearing the 260 Squadron “HS” squadron code and the aircraft letter “B” settled down over a wide and remote expanse of North African sand desert called Al Wadi al Jadid. Perhaps low on fuel, perhaps lost, or with mechanical problems, the RAF pilot chose to land in the vast North African [...]
After a half century rusting at the bottom of a Belgian swamp, Canadian Halifax bomber LW682 will shine again, but this time atop the Bomber Command memorial in London. Aluminum from the vintage warplane will be formed into sheets and used to make the memorial’s roof. A uniquely Canadian contribution to the grand new memorial — the largest built in [...]
A compass shows the direction the plane was when it crashed. The guns are corroded by many years on the ocean floor. Metal rods reveals that the pilot’s ejection seat was never released. But what else is hiding the story behind the German plane on the ocean floor, the museum staff and aircraft enthusiasts see if they can uncover. After [...]
This private tactical event was organised by Pete Skillman with help from Manny Trainor and Marc Almond and was set in the wonderful East sussex countryside at Pippingford Park. The weather before the event was atrocious and we were praying for a dry event…someone was listening as apart from the odd quick shower it remained sunny and dry! When we [...]
Timeline WW2 with Dan Snow in association with British Pathe Timeline WW2, a definitive history of the Second World War for the iPad, brings to life the cataclysmic events of 70 years ago for a 21st century audience. This groundbreaking new app features an amazing new interactive timeline that revolutionises the way that history can be viewed and understood. Over [...]
Hell’s Angels Veteran flys againMay 23, 2013
Huntington State Office Building Will Be Renamed for Rosie the RivetersMay 22, 2013
‘I never knew people could love an old man so much’: WWII vet, 91, ‘saved from daughter’s eviction’ after $138,000 raised onlineMay 22, 2013
Bomber Command veterans boycotting ‘insulting’ awardMay 22, 2013
Countdown to raising the Dornier commencesMay 22, 2013
When wartime appearances were deceiving by designMay 22, 2013
American fighter still hidden under North Wales beachMay 22, 2013
What to Bring to a War: A Packing List for WWII Army NursesMay 22, 2013
Drunkenness, jeep accidents, sexual assault – The Dark Side of LiberationMay 22, 2013
Dame Judi Dench launches £1.5m campaign for maintenance of Bomber Command MemorialMay 22, 2013
Obituaries Brigadier-General Zdenek Skarvada: Spitfire pilot who later underwent forced labourMay 22, 2013
Russia to Scrap World’s Biggest Nuclear SubsMay 22, 2013
Raising a World War II Bomber From the English ChannelMay 22, 2013
New Interactive Timeline and Map Allows You to Explore the History of World War IMay 22, 2013
87 shipwrecks, most from WWII, could leak oil near US, but no ‘ticking time bombs’May 22, 2013
Cold War cartography: Mapping where Soviets could – and could not – go in 1950′s AmericaMay 21, 2013
New monument honors ‘overlooked’ WWII aviators killed in training at Columbia baseMay 21, 2013
P-38 Lightning Crash Site at Siar IslandMay 21, 2013
WWI German submarine has underwater Lake Michigan graveMay 21, 2013
Billionaire Paul Allen gets V-2 rocket for aviation museum near SeattleMay 21, 2013
