The Telegraph reports: Britain’s great wartime leader first went into battle at 22 – against the Taliban’s brutal ancestors – and almost lost his life. An extract from Con Coughlin’s new book recreates the dramatic events. In 1897, British forces launched a bloody campaign against Pashtun tribesmen on the North West Frontier. It was the first time Winston Churchill, a [...]
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER War has sadly become pretty much a constant in our lives with the on-going conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, but it wasn’t always so as this animated video shows. To help compare and contrast the history of war over the past 1,000 years, a YouTube user has created this incredible animated video which illustrates all the important battles [...]
From the frantic pace of the Battle of Britain to the tense Cold War stand off, crews at RAF Duxford spent more than 40 years policing our skies. Now a new exhibition at the Cambridgeshire base will bring to life the work of the men and women who fought wars from their own soil. Founded at the 1918 birth of [...]
From Don Moores War Tales: Glenn Jenkins is dead. In 1945 he was a 17-year-old sailor who grew up in Nokomis and joined the Navy near the end of World War II. After graduation from boot camp in Bainbridge, Md. he volunteered for a secret Naval mustard gas experiment that made him the focal point of a headline-grabbing Congressional investigation [...]
World War II airplanes, including a Boeing B-29 Superfortress, are flying into town Monday as part of the Commemorative Air Force’s AirPower History Tour. The CAF collects, restores, and displays historic airplanes. The Tucson International Airport is the second tour stop for the five warbirds. Along with the B-29, a B-17 Flying Fortress, C-45 Expeditor, T-6 Texan, and a PT-17 [...]
By Caroline Gammell A woman who stumbled across the remains of two Lancaster bombers on her country estate has tracked down the families of those who died and is holding a memorial in their honour 67 years on. Lady Nall was testing out a metal detector given to her by her husband Sir Edward Nall when she found a two inch [...]
Archeologists spent nearly two weeks trying to find 37 unused spitfires in the jungle They were thought to have been delivered to Mingaladon, no Yangon international Airport It now isn’t clear if they were ever sent to the country By JAYMI MCCAN / Daily Mail: A hunt for dozens of Second World War Spitfires thought to have been buried in the Burmese [...]
68 years ago the Allied forces kicked of their conquest of Europe with the landing on the Normandy beaches. The invasion was a success, but it cost thousands of soldiers their lives. The Allied commander general Eisenhower talking to American paratroopers. The Axis commander, field marshal Rommel (pictured in North Africa) Allied aircrews work around C-47 transport planes at an [...]
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Giles Milton – Surviving History kindly allowed us to use his latest post: The news could scarcely have been bleaker for Hitler and his inner circle. The Soviet army was within a few hundred yards of the fuhrer’s famous Berlin bunker and its capture was only a matter of time. The nearby Schlsischer railway station had already been seized. The Tiergarten [...]
by Ruud Bruyns A lot of explanations have been written about the failure of Operation Market Garden, better known as the Battle of Arnhem after the ultimate goal of the operation. In the mainly English speaking literature there has been very few references to Dutch sources, while there have been many detailed publications about Market Garden. The most notable are [...]
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