How Lt. Col. Paul Needham survived after the Iranian storming of the US Embassy
Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Paul Needham was among those taken hostage during the Nov 4, 1979 takeover of the US Embassy in Tehran Iran.…
Battles of Ypres in WWI – a symbol of resilience and destruction
Passchendaele Cemetery [Via] Six British soldiers have been buried in Flanders Fields with full military honors, almost a century after they died in the early…
Yamamoto World War Two crash site re-opened
[Via] The World War Two crash site where the Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto died has been reopened to visitors after more than five years. The…
Nazi propaganda boy talks for the first time about meeting Hitler
In 1936, Gerhard Bartels didn’t realise he was posing with one of the world’s most hated dictators, but at the age of just four that…
How HMAS Sydney was sunk by a small German cruiser in 1941
[Via] Photographs of Shipwrecks discovered off the Western coast of Australia is now shedding new light on a Second World War tragedy in which scores…
Battlefield relics dug up: Big collection of German helmets
German helmets that had been buried for 100 years and were found in 2011. The haul was found and dug up in France after reading letters…
German Chancellor Visits Dachau Concentration Camp’s Commemoration Ceremony
[Via] German Chancellor will be attending a commemorative ceremony in Dachau on Sunday, along with Nazi concentration camp’s survivors. US forces liberated the prisoner at…
Historic Photograph Shows The Crew of Bomber Command’s Last Bombing Mission Of WWII
Brian Emsley found the picture of the destructive device being loaded on to an RAF Mosquito as he leafed through his late father’s old family…
Eight Canadian World War One soldiers finally laid to rest
[Via] The bodies of eight Canadian World War One soldiers have been discovered in the village of Hallu in north eastern France. Thousands of Canadian…
WWII and ATA girls – Unsung Heroines of the Battle of Britain
Contrary to the popular belief, women did play an active and vital role in the Second World War wherever it was possible. A large number…
Gladiator Myths and Misconceptions
Gladiators have garnered quite a lot of popular interest in the last few decades, thanks to films such as Gladiator and Pompeii and series like…
USAAF Stories – The B-24D “Lady Be Good”
Lady Be Good was a USAAF B-24D liberator which had been bombing Naples on April 4 1943. It disappeared without a trace only to be…