Field Marshal Montgomery Wanted Boy Scouts To Help Rehabilitate Germany From Nazism
The plan underlined many ideas of how the Allies would rebuild the German society after the Second World War, emphasizing the need for free press…
Forgotten Soldiers Of WWI
They are about 1000 now and they went to fight for their country during the First World War. However, the respect they earned in the…
Rare World War 2 Humber Snipe Military Vehicle Found In Bodden
The 1940 Humber Snipe was rusting in Andy Stevens’s shed in Bodden. Andy Stevens is a conservation stoneworker with a huge interest in military vehicles.…
Vietnam War Memorial Seeking Photos Of Valley’s Fallen
Some of the already collected photographs, found in high school yearbooks and offered by families and relatives are on display on the memorial’s website. The…
Sometimes ‘Nazi’ Is the Right Word
The decision came last week, as the government in Israel insisted that the use of the word ‘Nazi’ is nothing else but a weapon of…
Restored Fighter Plane Salutes Flying Tigers
The P-40E never flew with the Tigers, however, it was used by the 1st American Volunteer Group formed in China by Gen. Claire Chennault before…
A Pacifican’s Tale Of The Airflift to WWII China
The servicemen who used to fly the China-Burma-India airlift during World War II, delivered many important supplies to Chiang Kai-shek and United States Army Air…
The battlefields where you can mark 100 years since the start of WW1
1. Last Post at Ypres’ Menin Gate: One shouldn’t miss the Last Post at Ypres’ Menin Gate, a short tribute paid every night at 8pm,…
Wartime Ammunition Still Rotting In German Waters
Tourists on the Baltic Sea island of Usedom can sometimes be seen collecting what they think is amber stone, without realizing it is nothing…
Treasure Hunters Dig For Hitler’s Gold
According to parliament member and treasure hunter Heinz Peter Haustein, the team has located an area under the surface which appears to be filled with…
Stories Of 1916 Irish Volunteers Stored In New Digital Archives
The first collection includes more than 10,000 documents on servicemen and women of the Irish Volunteers, Citizen Army, Hibernian Rifles, the Irish Republican Army, Cumann…
Unseen First World War Photographs Show Troops At Play
The unseen diary of a young nurse aboard the medical ships at Gallipoli has revealed new photographs depicting the everyday life of soldiers during the…