Russia’s Night Witches: As Deadly as Men
Lyuba Vinogradova brings to light the amazing story behind Russia’s Night Witches — the first and only all-women aviation corps in the world which came…
GET YOUR KITS OUT FOR THE LADS – By Phil Hodges
Phil Hodges offers tips on taking up re-enacting. Fire and movement at the War & Peace Revival in 2013. © Mark Barnes for War History…
The Luftwaffe P-38 Lightning and other STUNNING pictures of Allied planes captured and used by the Luftwaffe
Ever wondered what happened with the airplanes that made an emergency landing in occupied territory? When captured (relatively) intact they were tested by the Germans…
Behind the scenes of the making of Band of Brothers – 39 fun images!
Band of Brothers is the 2001 HBO American war drama miniseries, it is based on the non-fiction book with the same name by historian Stephen…
30 ‘movie’ mistakes: Band of Brothers
OK – just for some Sunday fun. Without doubt the series that turned the WWII hobby around and really put it on the map.…
Greece demands €279bn from Germany for WWII occupation
Greece has recently taken a strong stance towards its demand for compensation money from Germany. Greek officials maintain that during the Second World War occupation…
70 years since deadly bombing raid on Tokyo
Seventy years ago in early March 1945, US B-29 bombers undertook their deadliest bombing raid on Japan’s capital city, Tokyo. The bombing raid dumped huge…
Alan Turing World War Two notebook to go on sale
A notebook from the 1940s belonging to Alan Turing, the British scientist and mathematician, is to go on sale by auction. Alan Turing was hired…
Plaque for Nijmegen bridge in honour of World War Two troops
Nijmegen, a city in the east of the Netherlands bordering Germany, is looking to commemorate 70 years since the end of World War Two with…
PFC Ahrens, found clutching a sword surrounded by 13 dead Japanese soldiers, his final words were “I guess they didn’t know I was a marine.”
PFC Edward Ahrens enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on 3 February 1942 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He underwent boot camp training at the Marine…
Memories from Battle of Okinawa – ‘Operation Iceberg’
Recording in his journal the days and nights leading up to the Battle of Okinawa, Lt. Col. William A. Kuretich described the weather, the mood…
President Putin equates rewriting WWII history with hiding Nazi crimes
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has said that recent attempts by some people at rewriting the history of World War II is no more than…