Great Granddaughter Visits WWI Somme Tunnel – Digger’s Grave – For The First Time
Sapper William Arthur Lloyd, a Welsh miner from New Broughton, North Wales, joined the 179th Tunneling Company in 1915. In October 1915, he was sent…
WWII New England Tavern Is Now ‘Brooklyn’s First Dinner Boat’
Sue Walsh and Kelli Farwell spent eight months trying to find the perfect boat to host their little restaurant. They first stumbled across a ship…
The Day The War Stood Still And The Most Emotional Football Match In History
That morning the sky was cloudless and snow was covering the grounds. A perfect day for peace and celebration, you would have thought. 5…
WWII Operation Mincemeat’s Jolly Roger flag fetches £14,000 at auction
Photo story (Clockwise from top left): (1) WWII Operation Mincemeat’s Jolly Roger flag that fetched £14,000 at auction (2) RAF Flight Lt Charles Cholmondeley of…
World War II PoW’s name to be removed from war memorial after he was discovered to have survived until 1989
A prisoner of war during the World War Two was presumed to have died in the hands of the Nazis. Recently, it was discovered that…
New Book about ‘Auschwitz Photographer’ Wilhelm Brasse Launched
Wilhelm Brasse was a Polish portrait photographer trained at his aunt’s studio before World War II broke out. It was in 1939 when the German…
Top 8 WWII Mistakes Made By The Allies
1. The Failure to Attack Germany After It Invaded Poland Starting from the beginning, one of the first mistakes related to the Second World…
Police report divulges Rommel did not die of “heart attack”, he committed suicide
A police report recently discovered debunks initial assumptions that surround the death of famed Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. The report of 1960 in Germany discloses…
WWI nurse Mabel’s diaries reveal lives of gruesomely injured soldiers
Photo story (Clockwise from top left): (1) WWI nurse Mabel Earp married George Leach, the wounded soldier who was discharged from the Army in 1918…
A 1945 Transcript Of Nuremberg Trials Donated To US Holocaust Museum
“Palace of Justice Nuremberg, Germany. 19 November 1945 Good evening. This is Corporal Sy Bernhard talking from AFN’s special booth in the courtroom at Nuremberg,…