When The Germans Desperately Needed To Counter The T-34, This Was Their Design
The Panther was not as thickly armoured, nor as heavily armed, as tanks such as the Tiger but was probably a much more balanced design.…
This British Major Brought An Umbrella To Arnhem Bridge, You Will Not Believe What He Did With It
One might think that being surrounded by the German SS is no laughing matter, but don’t tell that to British Major Digby Tatham-Warter. This cool…
George H. Bush Narrowly Escaped Being Executed and Eaten By The Japanese in WWII
In September 1944, the USS Finback submarine surfaced a few miles off the coast of Chichi Jima, an island some 700 miles South of Tokyo.…
Memphis Belle Was Not The First Bomber To Complete 25 Missions
Memphis Belle is a well-known World War Two bomber, which was made famous by the Hollywood movie of the same name back in 1990 and…
Did You Know This? The SECOND Raid On Pearl Harbor – Operation K
Everyone knows about the First Pearl Harbor Attack by the Japanese Imperial Navy. But few are aware of the 2nd Raid that the Japanese launched…
British WWII British Pilot Survived Sinking of HMS Audacity & Flew over 480 Different types of Aircraft Before His Career Was Over
There are many British aviators who can boast that they contributed to the war effort by taking to the skies over Europe to defeat the…
Taranto Raid: Bi planes smash Italian Fleet at Taranto – The Inspiration For Pearl Harbor
‘The Raid on Taranto, Italy, 11–12 November 1940’ by Ralph Gillies-Cole. Painting in collection of Fleet Air Arm Museum. In 1940, the British military situation…
Kilroy Was Here: How a Graffiti Cartoon Bolstered the Troops of WWII
A little comic relief really does work to calm the nerves and reduce tension. A welcome and a nod can make a new and frightening…
When the Allies Killed Over 20,000 of Their Own Countrymen As They Sank Japanese Hell Ships That Transported Them
In May 1942 the Japanese began transferring POWs by sea. Similar to treatment on the Bataan Death March, prisoners were often crammed into cargo holds…
The Russian KV Tank and Its Crew That Stopped The German Advance for a Full Day
On June 22, 1941, Germany and the Axis powers commenced Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union along a 2,900 km front with a…
5 Unbelievable True Stories About WWII That Should be Made into Movies
What most of us remember about World War II from history classes boils down to who fought who, the Holocaust, the Nazis and how almost…
Franz “The One That Got Away” Von Werra: Only German POW to Escape From Canada and Get Back Into the Fight
A POW escaping from captivity has long been one of the more fascinating plot lines of World War 2. For all the war’s brutality, there…