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The Laconia Incident Took More Lives Than the Sinking of the Titanic

Survivors of the Laconia Incident standing on the top decks of the U-156 and U-507

During the Second World War, an incident occurred that appeared to make the Germans the heroes and paint the Americans in a bad light. While…

Queen Elizabeth II Snuck Out In Disguise to Join V-E Day Celebrations

Queen Elizabeth II standing before a group of people

Britain’s longest-ruling monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, passed away on September 8, 2022 at the age of 96. The news was shared by Buckingham Palace, which…

The Women Who Decoded German Enigma At Bletchley Park

Two WRENS working on a Colossus computer + the exterior of Bletchley Park

The work done at Buckinghamshire’s Bletchley Park is credited with shortening World War II by between two and four years. The UK’s greatest minds worked…

The Hidden Dangers of Serving on a German U-boat During WW2

Despite VII C U-boats having a hull with similar dimensions to a Boeing 767, most of the interior was crammed with survival equipment. Life on…

Oskar Schindler Letter Among WWII Memorabilia to be Auctioned in April

There is also an extremely rare letter from industrialist Oskar Schindler, the man who put his own life at risk by rescuing hundreds of Jews…

Plan Z: The End of the Kriegsmarine in WWII

Ian Harvey

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

Ian Harvey

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

Jay Hemmings

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

Ian Harvey

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

Ian Harvey

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…