Bank Almost Banned Winston Churchill in New 5-Pound Note for Fear of Upsetting the Germans, Japanese
Bosses of the Bank of England almost outed former Prime Minister Winston Churchill from the new 5-pound note as they were worried his records during…
WWI Trenches Revived for Upcoming Great War’s Centenary
August 4, 2014 will mark the 100th year of World War I’s beginning. As part of the Great War’s centenary event, trenches which were used…
Fresh Start for Dachau: Moving On from Its Shameful Nazi Past
Shame from its Nazi past been Dachau’s tail for years. The town, with its 45,000 population, is nothing short of a neat Bavarian town complete…
‘Slumdog Millionaire’ and ‘127 Hours’ Team To Make WWII Miniseries about the Heroes of Telemark!
The team who made Oscar-winning ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ and ‘127 Hours’ are bent on making their first TV project – a World War II miniseries set…
To-be-Auctioned Rare WWII German Coding Machine ‘Enigma’ Awakens Memories of WWII ‘Intelligence’ Battle
British auction house, Bonhams, is putting up a rare German code machine used by the Nazis for coding their military messages during the Second World…
WWI’s Battle of the Somme: JRR Tolkien’s Unlikely Inspiration for His ‘Middle Earth’
The Telegraph reports: JRR Tolkien or John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, the Father of Modern Fantasy Literature, is well-known for his fantasy work “Middle Earth”…
Lithuania Remembers 70th Year of Vilnius Jews Carnage
Pre-World War II Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital city, was known as the “Jerusalem of the North” and Jews living in the area had enjoyed the freedom…
US Returns Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp Wooden Barracks to Poland
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum is giving back an Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp wooden barracks to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland after being part of the former’s…
Remembering Ferguson Smith, WWII Hero Turned Cold War Spy Catcher
Surprised was the least of words to describe how the London suburb neighborhood Ferguson Smith, full name Ferguson George Donaldson Smith but was mostly known through…
Oldest Living Medal of Honor Recipient Died at 96
96-year-old Nicholas Oresko, oldest living recipient of the Medal of Honor, passed away at the Englewood Hospital and Medical Center last October 4, Friday. The World…
WWII Soldier Documented Own Life, Service Through the Lens
Eugene Donatelli, like most young American men at the onset of the Second World War, got to tour free around the world courtesy of Uncle…
Jewish Bernard Warshaw Recalls WWII Memories From The Citadel to Dachau Concentration Camp
Bernard Warshaw, a son of a Jewish small town businessman, had dreamed of going to The Citadel, a military college in South Carolina. He had…