Legion d’Honneur awarded to two Dorset World War Two veterans
A 98 year old veteran of World War Two has been honoured with the Legion d’Honneur, France’s highest military honour. The veteran Sergeant Robert Rigler…
Goering’s final message to Hitler on display at Natick Museum
In the final days of World War Two, the Nazi leadership was in chaos. The Soviet Red Army was advancing from the east and Berlin…
Panzerjäger Tiger (P) Elefant Sd. Kfz. 184 Tank Destroyer
When Ferdinand Porsche offered his designs for the Tiger II tank in 1939, it was deemed too unconventional. It was also considered too demanding to…
Death in the Desert: The End of the Crusader Kingdoms of the Levant
A Memluk Warrior of the Crusading Period Much like today, the Middle East in the mid thirteenth century was a swirling maelstrom of competing powers,…
In the SS, in Nine Battles, Wounded Five Times & Awarded Nazi Germany’s Highest Award
Joachim von Ribbentrop is well known as the Nazi diplomat and foreign minister who negotiated the non-aggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union and…
You Think You Know Your Uniforms – Check to See if You Do! 50 Amazing Images of WWII Uniforms
A Military uniform is the standardized dress worn by members of the armed forces and paramilitaries of various nations. Military dress and military styles have…
2014: Still wearing their boots and helmets, the Germans who fell fighting Russians at the Gates of Berlin
German soldier’s bodies, from the famed ‘Battle of Seelow Heights’, have been uncovered; the bodies still donned their helmets and boots. The Association for the…
The Battle for Normandy – Amazing Images from the battlefields
71 years ago the Allies were fighting in Normandy to expand the still tenuous bridgehead around their landing beaches. Here are some amazing pictures from…
World War One German Mephisto A7V tank on display in Canberra
A7V tank at Roye on 21 March 1918 Via A World War One German Mephisto A7V tank has been put on display at the Australian…
World War Two Jewish hideout discovered in Poland
A secret cellar used to hide Jews from the Nazis during World War Two has been uncovered in Poland. The cellar was discovered in a…
The First Gulf War – Fast Facts
Two Iraqi T-55 main battle tanks lie abandoned on the Basra-Kuwait Highway near Kuwait City after the release of Iraqi forces from the city during…
Flying the Me 262 – The First Operational Jet Fighter
The First Fighter Planes When the First World War began, the airplane was still a new invention. Its potential as a military vehicle had not…