Plan Z: The End of the Kriegsmarine in WWII
Dönitz had long believed that too many resources were spent on the surface fleet to the detriment of the submarine fleet, but even he balked…
The Longest Continuous Battle of WW2 – 5 Years, 8 Months & 5 Days
The first U-boat sunk was on September 14th, 1939 when three torpedoes from U-39 exploded prematurely in an attack on the British aircraft carrier HMS…
Hero of the ‘Greatest Raid of All’ St Nazaire Bill ‘Tiger’ Watson, Dead at 97
Dr. Bill “Tiger” Watson, MC, MBE passed away on December 29, 2018. He was one of the last surviving members of the Commando raiding party…
Werner Goering, The US Bomber Pilot Whose Name Almost Got Him Assassinated By The FBI
A famous quote from William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice states that “the sins of the father are to be laid upon the children.” In…
Germany 1944-5 – a Nation Sliding From Triumph into Ruin
At the height of his power, Adolf Hitler declared that the German people were on the threshold of a Thousand-Year Reich. This announcement was welcomed…
Enigma No Longer A Mystery: Peeking Inside the Fabled Nazi Machine
The Enigma machine, used by the Nazis in World War II to send coded messages to agents and military personnel around the globe, has been…
Conspiracy Theories: The Biggest One Of All From WW2
Conspiracy theorists just love to spend their time debating outlandish notions of what really happened during historical events. Simple, verifiable truth isn’t enough. Marilyn Monroe…
The ‘Stars’ of the Nuremberg Trials: War Criminals Convicted There, Some Faces You May Have Forgotten About
On November 19, 1945, the Nuremberg trials started with indictments against 24 major war criminals and seven organizations. All of the criminals tried were members…
Germany’s Last Field Marshal – The Butcher Ferdinand Schörnerand
During the Second World War, the Allies ran a series of propaganda posters entitled “This is the Enemy,” which depicted a variety of Axis personalities…
Germany’s Subs That Didn’t Surrender to Allies
German U-boats were the scourge of the high seas in the Second World War. The Atlantic was always a contested battleground with the threat of…
World War II Fighting Continued Months After Peace Agreement
It’s easy to imagine that once World War II officially ended, the defeated Germans forces were so anxious to get home that they dropped their…
Could German Aircraft Carriers Have Won the Battle of the Atlantic?
It might be easy to throw out a discernible “no” when asking such a historical “what if” given that we know the real outcome. What…