8 Most Wanted Nazi Criminals Still At Large
Each year since 2001, Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center produces an Annual Status Report on the Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi war…
Bren Gun vs MG 34 Spandau – Which Was Better? (Watch)
The light machine gun was an important weapon of World War II. Designed to support infantry, it could be carried and operated by a single…
John McCrae: Officer, Doctor, and Author of WWIs Most Famous Poem
More so than any other modern war and certainly more than any war fought before it, The First World War was the age of the “war…
A Kiwi Victory: Minesweepers Moa and Kiwi Bag a Japanese Sub By Repeatedly Ramming It
During WWII the Japanese Navy changed its communication codes on a regular basis, this was a mammoth task as new codebooks had to be transferred…
Dresden Pays Its Respect to the Victims of the 1945 Allied Firebombing Attack
Dresden is a city located in eastern Germany that recently paid its respects to the thousands of people who were victims of the Allied firebombing…
Guest Blogger Dan Snow – Dunkirk: Day by Day – 27 May 1940 (Watch)
76 years ago today – Operation Dynamo was underway. However the evacuation at Dunkirk was made increasingly difficult by the German Luftwaffe who pounded Dunkirk…
A Staggering 1,085 WWII Airmen Died in the Netherlands and Remain Missing
Dutch broadcaster NOS and other war experts have conducted research that supports a claim that says upwards of 1,085 airmen remain missing in the Netherlands.…
Many Australian Soldiers Died in the Battle of Pozieres; It is Time to Honor Them
One of the bloodiest battles in World War I took place in the small French village of Pozieres. Records show that almost as many Australians…
A Soldier’s Grave Uncovered From The Civil War
Within Osceola County an unexpected and historic grave marker from the Civil War era has been uncovered. The community is going to put together something…
British Adventurer Crashes Vintage Biplane in Arizona
Tracey Curtis-Taylor, a 54-year-old British adventurer, was flying her World War II vintage biplane across the U.S. when it crashed in the Arizona Desert. She…
What if the Teutoburg Disaster Didn’t Happen?
“What if” history questions can be a divisive. Some view them as an exercise in futility, a place where no serious historians should go. Others…
Le Paradis – Where the SS Murdered 97 British Prisoners on May 27th 1940
In 1940, members of the British military were slaughtered – after they had surrendered to German forces. Two survived, but no one believed their story.…