The Fury of Battle – D-Day as it Happened, Hour by Hour
Eyewitness accounts have created a maze of contradictory information about the Normandy landings. Films and TV documentaries tend to glorify the D-Day tale, told through…
Why Did French Police Helped the Nazis Deport France’s Jews
For many years after World War II, the French government and many historians, reeling from the experience of war and occupation, put forward a narrative…
In The World of Military Vehicles, Anything Is Possible
A ship that can rise over water sounds like something out of Star Wars, but just such a craft is one of many different types of…
Crazy Price: Steve McQueen’s WW2 Jeep Sells for $108,000
In early 1940, the United States Department of War had determined it needed a light, cross-country, four-wheel drive, reconnaissance vehicle and was anxious to have…
Sorry: C-17 Globemaster Drops Humvee in Backyard After Military Training Snafu
A Humvee was airdropped into a neighborhood in North Carolina on October 24. The C-17 Globemaster transport plane that was carrying it accidentally dropped it…
5 Sopwith Fighter Planes in Over 35 Images
The Sopwith Aviation Company was one of the most important manufacturers of fighter planes in the First World War. The company created some of Britain’s…
In Band of Brothers GIs Could Retun Home if They Had 85 Points, Was This True?
The TV miniseries Band of Brothers provided information about WWII to many people. While some of the facts in the show were exaggerated, was the…
Over 100 Fascinating Pictures of British WW2 Tanks Some You Wouldn’t Have Seen Before
Vickers Medium Tank Mark 2 The standard British tank of the inter-war years, the Vickers Medium Mark 2 was based on a design from not…
Fascinating Images of The Battle of Leyte Gulf
This was an intense naval battle in World War II and arguably one of the largest in the world. It highlights the importance of blue-water…
The Highest-Scoring Female Fighter Ace Ever: The Short but Daring Life of Lydia Litvyak
In June 1941, the Axis powers launched an ill-fated invasion of Russia. The 3 million soldiers that swarmed the Russian border overwhelmed the Soviet defenses.…
Unknown project for solving the Iranian Hostage Crisis: Operation Credible Sport
“Desperate times call for desperate measures” is a sentence that best describes Operation Credible Sport. In situations when conventional solutions have failed and when conventional…
Brazilian Who Hated Hitler won the Silver Star in Italy During WWII
We all know that the Second World War was truly a global war in the sense that battles were fought on many of the world’s…