Historical evidence of how plucky British army officers rescued Hitler’s original ‘People’s Car’ and transformed it into the legendary Volkswagen Beetle goes under the hammer next week. The blueprint Beetle plans and associated papers reveal how the British team who re-started production at the factory in 1945 led directory to the re-birth of what is now Europe’s biggest car company [...]
Last week me and Gordon went out to the Republic of Djibouti in East Africa, with the intent of possibly bringing back a Sherman tank sat in a scrap yard and left by the Foreign Legion back in the 1960’s, we left having only one contact that we could find out there on line, our guide Ali and a stack [...]
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Sparky74 writes on the 28 days later forum: It was on the 3rd November 1948 when Boeing RB-29A Superfortress 44-61999 “Overexposed” crashed on Shelf Moor, bleaklow, killing all 13 crew members. 62 years on and there is still sunstantial parts of the wreckage remaining as a memorial to the brave soles who lost their lives on that day. When we [...]
WWII Aircraft Facts No matter how one looks at it, these are incredible statistics. Aside from the figures on aircraft, consider this statement from the article: On average 6600 American service men died per MONTH, during WWII (about 220 a day). Most Americans who were not adults during WWII have no understanding of the magnitude of it. This listing [...]
Filmed in colour, an entire crew of a B-29 (12 aviators) were rescued by a US submarine after their plane was shot down in 1945, 70 miles off the coast of Japan. The entire rescue was filmed in color video but then sat in a guy’s closet until now. This is a story from a Denver TV station of one [...]
On June 1942, Hitler personally decided that both the V1 and V2 projects were of equal importance and each needed to be given the highest priority. With the defeat of the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Brittain and a growing number of German cities bombarded by the Allied forces, causing thousands of civillian casualties, the need for “Vergeltungswaffen” or “Wunderwaffen” to feed [...]
In the decades following World War I, and even more so after World War II, at least three major powers disposed of massive quantities of captured, damaged, and obsolete chemical warfare (CW) material by dumping them in the oceans. According to U.S. Department of Defense reports, the U.S military alone dumped CW agents in waters worldwide on at least 74 [...]
WWII Sea Mines around Iceland Operations by the Icelandic Coast Guard EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) Unit to render safe and destroy stranded and trawled WW II Sea Mines on and around Iceland has awoken much interest on the history of these mines and the dangers they now present to both fishermen and the general public. To answer the first question [...]
There is a lot of hyperbole about Alamein, but let’s be fair it matters to us because it was a British and Commonwealth victory that came after so much anguish. We’d had all those years of failure elsewhere and the seesaw warfare across the desert blue. Now at last we had a success to grasp for our very own before [...]
Explorers have located the shipwreck of a top-secret First World War “Mystery Ship”, whose captain won the Victoria Cross and later appeared as himself in a silent movie about its sinking. A team of explorers believe they have found the wreck of the vessel. It was perhaps one of the most hazardous roles of the First World War – [...]
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