Games That Teach History – Learning History from Civilization
Historical video games, like many historical films, are full of inaccuracies, mainly to make the story fit better into the medium and to make it…
Auschwitz Love Story Between Nazi Guard & Jewish Prisoner Which Saved Her Life
An Auschwitz love story has emerged more than 70 years on from the depths of a Nazi concentration camp, where a Jewish prisoner fell in…
Trunk Containing Belongings of WWI Soldier Rediscovered A Century After; Auctioned Off
A trunk containing the belongings of a 28-year-old WWI soldier was recently rediscovered almost 100 years later after the Great War. Dubbed the “time capsule”…
World’s Largest LEGO Ship – USS Missouri WWII Battleship
BB-63, the USS Missouri “Mighty Mo” is an Iowa-class United States Navy Battleship, the third that was named in honor of the US state of…
Congressional Gold Medal For Monuments Men Heroes Who Rescued Artworks from the Ravages of War
Robert Edsel spent 14 years of his life hunting down the tales of World War II’s forgotten treasure hunters. Edsel, who owned a multimillion-dollar oil…
Pacifist WWII Veteran Fired from Remembrance Day Parade
George Evans, aged 92, of Wellington, Shropshire, has been part of the town’s Remembrance Day parade for the past twenty-five years. The veteran of the…
Help Restore the Bastogne 101st Airborne 326th Medical Company monument!
December 2009 – the unveiling of the monument of the 101st Airborne 326th Medical Company was a fact. Now several years later we noticed that…
The Junkers Ju-87 Stuka: Terror With a Siren
The Stuka got its nickname from the German word Sturzkampfflugzeug or dive-bomber, the official designation was Junkers Ju-87. The first plane prototype Stuka flew in…
Vietnam War Prisoner’s Package Sent Home after 40 Years
The wife of a Vietnam War veteran and prisoner of war has received the letters and personal items that she sent to her husband during…
12 Battles That Defined the Crusades
The Crusades, Christian Europe’s attempt to drive back other nations and religions, were among the most ambitious and badly thought out campaigns in military history.…
True story: Mighty Eighth – October 14th 1943, Bassingbourn Airfield by Clive Stevens
October 14th 1943, Bassingbourn Airfield, Cambridgeshire. Jim Harlow recalled………………”We walked into the morning briefing feeling more than anxious. This was 04:30 Thursday morning and I…
20 Facts About The P-51 Mustang – The Best US Fighter of WWII
North American Aviation (NAA) built the P-51 Mustang in factories based in Inglewood, California, and Dallas, Texas. It took them 102 days to build the…