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Texas governor Rick Perry to travel to southern Pacific to join hunt for missing Second World War fighters

Siegphyl

Texas Governor Rick Perry is planning to travel to the South Pacific to help in the search for missing American Second World War fighters. The…

Burma War Graves ‘Has Enormous Power To Engage’

Steve Khalif

Taukkyan War cemetery is located in Burma along the highway linking Rangoon. 6,426 soldiers of commonwealth who died in either of the two world wars…

New York: Former Nazi Death Camp Guard Jakiw Palij, 91, ‘used to Jewish Protestors’

Steve Khalif

Jakiw Palij, 91, is a former Nazi concentration camp guard who was recruited by the German Army when Nazi occupied Poland. He has been a…

WWI Airmen Deaths Showed Humanity, Chivalry Amidst WWI Monstrosity

Heziel Pitogo

There might have been more humanity expressed in the First World War than what we have been told or led to believe after all. In…

Douglas Haig – butcher or hero? By Rupert Colley

Guest Author

Douglas Haig, Britain’s First World War commander-in-chief from December 1915 to the end of the war, is remembered as the archetypal ‘donkey’ leading ‘lions’ to…

EXCLUSIVE: In their own words – German veterans of WWII – Part 2, A major bollocking by Rob Schäfer

Rob Schaefer

For the second part of this series I have chosen a report written by a soldier serving in the Stabs-Abteilung (Regimental staff) of Pz.Reg 35.…