World War 2 | War History

The 1941 Siege of Tobruk, Birth Of The Rats of Tobruk

From the moment Germany invaded Poland and started WWII on 1 September 1939, they were unstoppable. Their blitzkrieg tactics (concentrating their tanks, planes, and mechanized…

Banzai Charges From the Tunnels During the 1945 Battle of Corregidor Island

Colin Fraser

On March 7th, 1945, American General Douglas MacArthur walked on Corregidor Island for the first time since he slipped off its shores under cover of…

The Sturmtiger – Massive WW2 Tank With 380mm Rocket Launcher (Watch)

The Sturmtiger (‘Assault Tiger’) was an assault gun used by the Germans during World War II. It was built to support troops fighting in towns…

5 GI’s Took Cover For What Was To Become A Night From Hell

Only starlight and a sliver of a moon lit the way for the fragmented platoon of the 14th Armored Division “Liberators” Infantry. It was another…

Win a Ride In Tiger 131!

To help raise funds for The Tank Museum, they are holding a raffle to give you the chance to win a ride in Tiger 131!…

Vistula-Oder Offensive: The Offensive That Brought The Soviets To 70km From Berlin

In the 2004 film Downfall, depicting the last few days in Adolf Hitler’s bunker under Berlin before the city finally fell to Soviet troops on…

Channel Dash: When the Germans Snuck a Whole Fleet Group Through the English Channel

Colin Fraser

For many generations, British sea power was a terrifying obstacle to any nation or empire who wished to oppose the might of those Isles. In…

Japanese Schindler Helped 5,580 Jews Escape The Holocaust Ended Up Selling Lightbulbs To Survive

Although Japan was one of the Axis Powers during WWII, one Japanese diplomat did his best to mitigate the horrors of his country’s ally, Nazi…

Battles of Attu & Kiska: Retaking The Only US Soil Lost During WWII

In the cold, desolate Arctic near Alaska in 1942, Japanese troops quietly invaded and took over two of the Aleutian Islands, considered to be North…

MoH Leonard A. Funk: U.S. paratrooper who took out 40 Germans in 60 seconds

Jeff Edwards

It goes without saying that many gallant actions of war are often never recorded and lost to the passage of time as they are treated…

9 Feb 1945: Victory at the Colmar Pocket, Germans Eviction From The West Bank of The Rhine

On 9 February 1945, the last German forces on the west bank of the River Rhine were defeated by the French and Americans. The defeat…

Camouflage California: The Massive Deception of World War II You Have Never Heard of

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,…