WWII Soldier Killed Just 8 Days Before Germany Surrendered Featured in Education Program
Richard Padgett was born into a wealthy family in the town of Walterboro in Colleton County, South Carolina on 16th February 1923. Called Paul by…
The Glory Days of East Berlin’s Stasi football club: Berliner FC Dynamo
Back in the days of the USSR and the German Democratic Republic, East German football teams were often named after the factories they represented. FC…
Gary Powers – Not A Cold War Hero To All Americans
Gary Powers became (in)famous as the American spy-plane pilot who was shot down by the Russians, in 1960. In 1957, American President Dwight D. Eisenhower…
Be Quick! Bomber Camp 2016: Battle of the Bombers – Last Available Slots
Bomber Camp 2016 presents Battle of the Bombers! Be a part of history as a flight crew member in the B-17 Flying Fortress or the…
Auschwitz Concentration Camp: 71 Years Since Liberation
Auschwitz concentration camp, the most notorious of the Nazi death camps, was liberated 71 years ago, on 27 January 1945. For five years it had…
Mel Gibson To Direct Second World War Drama: Hacksaw Ridge
Mel Gibson was photographed overlooking the principal photography for his upcoming creative venture; a Second World War drama called Hacksaw Ridge. It has been a…
Exploding Rats, Anti-Tank Dogs, Mini Subs, Guided Bombs And More, a list of the strangest weapons of WWII
World War Two required the production of weapons on a massive scale. The war was also a time when weapons research and development took center…
Chickens of the Gulf War – Operation Kuwaiti Field Chicken
A century and a half ago, it was common to use birds as detectors of poison and poison gases. Because of their delicate lungs and…
Amazing! The Battle For Okinawa In Full Color! (Watch)
Throughout 1944 Allied forces drove the Japanese from the countries that had occupied in the Pacific. By the beginning of 1945, they were within striking…
The End of the 900 Day Leningrad Blockade – January 27, 1944
Sieges are a familiar sight throughout the many pages of history and the many nations around the world. Yet there is one siege that left…
67 Year Old Man Have Been The Oldest Soldier of the First World War
100 years after World War One and a story of the oldest soldier to fight in the war has emerged. Thousands of young, middle aged and…
The Flaming Coffin, The German Heavy Dive Bomber The Luftwaffe Hated
The Heinkel He 177 Greif (Griffin) was an aircraft doomed from the start of its inception. Its design was intrinsically flawed, its engines frequently caught…