Second World War C-47 Transport Plane Arrives At Flying Tigers Heritage Park
A venerable C-47, the transport workhorse airplane during the Second World War that was seemingly used everywhere, is going on permanent display at the Flying…
Rare PT Boat Is On The move From New Orleans, Scheduled For Launch In 2017
The launch of the PT-305, which will take passengers at $350 a pop, is set for March 25, 2017. The motor torpedo boat, nicknamed U.S.S.…
The United Kingdom’s Most Extraordinary Female World War Two Pilot
Very few pilots can brag that they flew an unknown airplane without training, using only a preflight checklist. Lettice Curtis, who died in 2014 aged…
Shooting In Slow Motion – The Invention That Gave The Germans The Advantage In The Air In WW1
Imagine the dilemma faced by a First World War fighter pilot in 1914 who risked damaging or shooting his airplane’s propeller off with rapid-firing machine…
The Slow Disappearance Of Second World War Wrecks At The Hands Of Illegal Salvagers
Dutch defense minister Jeanine Hennis has told Members of the Dutch Parliament in a written briefing that three of the nation’s warships sunk in the…
Nancy Wake: Special Ops Agent And The Gestapo’s Most Wanted
A British Special Ops agent during World War II, Nancy Wake was a wartime beauty, and not a person to be messed with. She was…
The First Man to Sink a Japanese Warship – The Battle Of Wake Island
Most people believe that although the Japanese succeeded in bombing Pearl Harbor during WWII, they never managed to occupy so much as an inch of American soil,…
Documentary “Ageless Friends” – An Unusual Friendship Between A Dutch Man And An American Soldier From Another Time
It was the fascination of the personal stories from the Second World War that brought him to the American Military Cemetery in Margraten. There, Maarten…
One Of The Last Of The Tuskegee Airmen Has Died Aged 101
The death of Willie N. Rogers, one of the oldest surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen, severs another historical connection to the Second World War.…
The Normandy Landings In Color – A Rare Insight (Watch)
The first shot of the Normandy Landings on June 6, 1944, came not from a gun, but from a camera. One George Stevens, a Hollywood…
The “Kilted Killer” – The Scottish Officer Who Made Almost 20,000 Of The Enemy Surrender
During and after WWII, the Nazis and then the communists were so annoyed by one man they wanted him dead; and not just because he…
Listen To This Fascinating WWII Radio Chatter From A Lancaster Crew On A Bombing Raid
Taken from Volume 1 of the CD RAF Bomber Command at War, this clip takes you into the belly of an Avro Lancaster B.Mk, I…