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British development The Landships Committee commissioned Lieutenant Walter Gordon Wilson of the Royal Naval Air Service and William Tritton of William Foster & Co. Ltd.…

WW2: Jäger Greifen An! – German Luftwaffe captured Gun Camera Footage

In the air war over Europe, by 1944, the Allies had overwhelming advantages in numbers. The Luftwaffe had to come out and attack the bomber formations…

WW II B-17 Survival Story – Virtually cut in half by a mid air collision with a German Fighter it got the crew home!

On February 1, 1943, there was a collision in mid-air between a B-17 bomber and a German fighter plane over the Tunis dock area in…

The Heavy Tank T26E3 Pershing – 1945

As the Second World War was coming to its end, the technologies on the battlefields of Europe were becoming more and more complex. The tank…

World War II As You’ve Never Seen it Before: In ORIGINAL Color!

When we think of World War 2 we think of black and white images and movies, however some of the cameramen were equipped with color…

The Greatest German General No One Has Heard Of – Lieutenant General Of Armored Troops Herman Balck

Herman Balck might be one of the most effective German Generals, whose actions are largely forgotten today. He came from a military family, his father,…

A Nightmarish Place – The Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp

The Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp lies just North of Linz, in Austria. It was one of the first large concentration camps created in Nazi Germany and…

The Weapons They Carried: 10 WWII Infantry Weapons That Were Crucial to the Fight

Colin Fraser

Let’s take a look at the top 10 WWII Infantry Rifles of WWII, both Allied and Axis. M1 Garand The M1 Garand was the standard…

Amazing story: WWII ghost B-17 completed its mission, then landed – no one was on board

A B-17 Flying Fortress landed perfectly at an RAF airbase and completes the full landing pattern as well. The bomber comes to a full stop;…

Lyudmila Pavlichenko The Most Succesful Female Sniper Ever With 309 Kills

When the most countries of the world avoid putting women in the front line for some reasons during the World War II, the Soviet Union…

The German Officer Who Rescued the ‘Pianist’

Sometimes, things aren’t always so black and white. Take the Nazi officer who ran a concentration camp in Poland. Who would ever have thought that he’d…

10 Interesting Facts About Douglas MacArthur That You Might Not Know

Douglas MacArthur, born on 26 January 1880 was an American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of…