Ghosts of the Gooney Bird, a magnificent series of photos of the legendary DC-3 Dakota in her final glory – By Hans Wiesman
During my multiple expeditions since 1990 in search of the legendary Gooney Bird, I ran into many DC-3 derelicts, C-47 wrecks, abandoned Dakotas and fortunately,…
Sophie Scholl: one of Germany’s most famous anti-Nazi heroes, executed by guillotine
Across Germany and especially in Munich, the city where they were most active, people remember and honor, by naming streets, monuments, even a top literary…
PERHAPS THE GREATEST ENIGMA OF WW2: ADMIRAL WILHELM CANARIS
By Richard Brook In Berlin, running perpendicular to the Tiergarten is Stauffenbergstasse, renamed in honor of Col Claus von Stauffenberg, the man who tried to kill…
Most truly inaccurate war films to hit the big screen
When sitting down to watch war movies, most audiences expect that the accounts are as true to what actually happened as possible, especially since they…
‘We were a target’ Air Force veteran discusses service during the Cold War
By Jeremy P. Amick During the height of the Cold War in the 1960s, many men and women volunteered to serve the United States by…
Bone fragments discovered at crash site in Germany could be the last resting place of World War Two airman
The family of a fallen British soldier from the Second World War fought a lengthy battle with German development authorities. The family members of the…
World War Two missing submarine, HMS Urge, discovered off Libya
Correction: This article states inaccurate and out-of-date information about the location of the HMS Urge, based on reports that were given at the time, but…
War criminal Alois Brunner, Adolf Eichmann’s main assistant, died in Syria
Image Courtesy of commons Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem, confirmed to BBC that the former Nazi war criminal, Alois Brunner,…
WWll in Colour-Blitzkrieg Over Holland, Belgium and France
It has been 76 years since Belgium, The Netherlands, and France were invaded by the German armies. A color video tells the story of the…
Oskar Schindler-The German who saved 1200 of Jews from the Holocaust
Oskar Schindler is man who saved the lives of 1200 Jews during World War II. Instead of having the Nazi`s take them to concentration camps, Oskar…
An Iconic ‘Spitfire’ went going on sale for 2.5 million
A fully restored ‘Spitfire’ from the Second World War is expected to go on sale for around 2.5 million. The iconic plane was shot down…
55 quotes from Band of Brothers – hey Frank, this guy says the Germans are bad…..!!
Ronald Spiers: The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you’re already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you’ll be…