Ernie Pyle remembered for tales of soldiers’ lives in WWII
Ernie Pyle in 1945 [Via] A US war journalist, Ernie Pyle, made a name writing scores of columns about the life and times of frontline…
Top 10 reasons why Hitler lost WWII
Adolf Hitler, a man who swept the Germans up to incredible victories, was also the main reason Germany ultimately lost the war. He refused to…
The captured OSS agent who convinced an entire German Army to surrender!
Frederick Mayer was born in Baden Germany, in a Jewish family. He worked in Germany for a while after finishing High School education, working as…
B-24 ‘Lady Be Good’ – Crashed on it’s first and last mission in 1943, discovered in 1958
The wreckage of a USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) plane that went missing during its first and last mission in the Second World War…
Oise-Aisne American Cemetery Plot E – Where The Dishonorable Dead from WWII are Buried
The Oise-Aisne American Cemetery is a military cemetery in northern France where American soldiers killed in the area during World War I are buried. It…
Sergeant ‘Smokey’ Smith VC: I don’t take prisoners, period. I’m paid to kill them, then takes out 3 Panthers
If you ask any combat infantryman, you will hear that there are men who make their life easy in garrison and men who make their…
Allied Special Service Force actions remembered by veterans
Now 91 years old, Harry Wilks, a World War Two hero has been telling his story of being a part of the First Special Service…
HISTORY IN YOUR HANDS – By Phil Hodges
Phil Hodges takes a brief look at collecting militaria with the help of advice from experienced dealers Denis Exall and James Aslett.Photographs © Denis Exall…
5 Amazing Animals That Served In The Military Forces
Images Used (From left): (1) An iconic photograph of Bamse wearing a sailor’s cap of the Norwegian Navy during WWII (2) Lin Wang, the Asian…
THE BLOODY ROAD TO TUNIS – Review by Mark Barnes
Here we have a new paperback edition of a superior account of the war in North Africa by David Rolf first published back in 2001. …
MIA: No man left behind? Two B-24 crash sites off the northern Italian Coast – By Bill Beigel
Two crews from the 449th Bomb Group were lost 13 months apart; one in January of 1944; the other in February of 1945. Both went…
Remains of the German Radar Station near Brno – By Mike Dolezal
During World War II, the nowadays Czech republic saw field operations in 1945 when the country was liberated by the Red Army from east and…