The story of B-29 “KEE BIRD” FROZEN FOR 50 YEARS
ForcThe US Air es B-29-95-BW Kee Bird was a Superfortress class aircraft. This craft belonged to the 46th Reconnaissance Squadron. This craft was stranded following…
Create your own WWII Style Propaganda Poster Online
We are proud to bring you the Keep Calm-o-matic. Just enter the pithy saying of your choice, choose a few simple options, and before you…
Camouflage California: Hiding Air Bases, Factories and Plants in WWII
In February 1942 the United States Navy Monitors had been tracking a Japanese submarine lurking on the outskirts of San Francisco. Several nights after this,…
Recovery of German U-Boat U534 (scroll down for video)
The Type IX C40 U-534 was a long-range submarine used by the German Navy from 1942 – 1945. Commissioned in Hamburg, it was used chiefly…
THE TANK MUSEUM TO OFFER A TIGER RIDE IN AN EBAY CHARITY AUCTION
THE TANK MUSEUM TO OFFER A TIGER RIDE IN AN EBAY CHARITY AUCTION WHICH COMMENCES ON THURS 22/11/12: BID TO RIDE IN THE TIGER! How…
PRESS RELEASE: PAXMAN DIGGING THE DIRT AT THE TANK MUSEUM
He’s famed for digging for answers – but Jeremy Paxman found himself digging the dirt during a visit to The Tank Museum. The host of…
PRESS RELEASE: Nazi Germany: History in an Hour App
“And so it had all come to this. Did all this happen only so that a gang of wretched criminals could lay hands on the…
COMBINED OPERATIONS MEMORIAL
COMBINED OPERATIONS MEMORIAL The first stage of a memorial to WW2 Combined Operations has been completed at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire at…
The First Tank Men
The world’s first tank men are the subject of a new exhibition case now on display at The Tank Museum. Before the Tank Corps was…
APP – Timeline WW2 with Dan Snow
Timeline WW2 with Dan Snow in association with British Pathe Timeline WW2, a definitive history of the Second World War for the iPad, brings to…
Rare vehicles to run for the first time
Preparations to make a selection of vehicles never before seen at TANKFEST are well underway. A further selection of `old favourites` will be complimented by…
M201/MB Differences Final Part
Well known 8th USAAF historian and mv enthusiast, Steve A. Carr, has many of the answers in the last of this four part series of…