Operation Market Garden – September 25th, 1944
A day-to-day account of Operation Market Garden, as it happened in 1944. Oosterbeek A destroyed King Tiger in the ruins of Oosterbeek All day preparations…
LOOK! Inside the Mighty IS-7 by World of Tanks
In 1948, the IS-7 heavy tank was developed. Weighing 68 metric tons, thickly armoured and armed with a 130 mm S-70 gun, it was the largest…
The Mystery of B-24 ‘The Photo Queen’
The mystery of a B-24 bomber that was lost during a reconnaissance mission in the Pacific is on the verge of being solved with the…
SUVLA 15 – Review by Mark Barnes
What a pleasure it is for me to see this book from our very own Wayne Osborne. It is quite appropriate that the last time…
The Life and Glory of ‘Hitler’s Car’
The spectrum of human’s fascination with artifacts and historic relics is as wide as it is peculiar. The Second World War gave us a number…
The Friendly Invasion Returns to Suffolk: Welcoming Home Two Men of The Mighty Eighth
Often, my father frustratingly reflects on his 17 year stint in the office of a sugar beet factory through the realisation that almost every man…
Drought sheds new light on the B-29 wreckage in Lake Mead
A massive B-29 Superfortress airplane flew a top-secret mission over Lake Mead in July of 1948. It was supposed to test a new missile guidance…
75 Year Old Messerschmitt BF109 E4 Flies Again
The only surviving Messerschmitt BF109 E4 still flying. It was shot down and belly landed in a field during the Battle of Britain in 1940.…
24 Best War Movies of All Time
Perhaps the most intriguing factor that drives humans towards the achievement of peace and cooperation is the reality of war and its consequences. Following are…
Rudders Pointe du Hoc landing craft found & now in restoration!
It’s not often you walk around a military fair and someone taps you on the shoulder and then says “Pssst….. want to know a secret?”…
25 mind blowing colourised images of WWII – Check Out LCT 325 in Action – She is Now Preserved
We are used to viewing the war in black and white. So when you get to see colourised images it brings the war to us…
Martin Mars WWII Water Bomber To Be Brought Back For Fire Service
[Via] A World War Two era Martin Mars water bomber airplane that was put out of service in Canada is said to be being brought…