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The Heroic Waal River Crossing – 82nd Airborne – 504th PIR – H-Company After Action Report

This official After Action Reports start in the morning of September 20th, 1944, the 3rd day of Operation Market Garden and the bridges across the…

17 Images of Damaged B-17 Bombers That Miraculously Made It Home

The B-17 Flying Fortress was famous for being able to take a lot of damage and still make it back to base. We have collected…

Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte – Hitlers Idiotic Heavy Tank Design

As the beginning of the war swept over Europe, with lightening speed, Hitler felt invincible, at least for the first two years of the war.…

AMAZING! The wreckage riders, those who stayed with the wreckage of their destroyed aircraft & survived!!

Jack Beckett

What do you think your odds of surviving are if you are shot down at 24,000 feet? If you said slim to none, you’d be…

Fearless feat of WWII Mosquito pilot who took on 5 German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 aircraft and got through

Photo story (Clockwise from top left): (1) Wing Commander Elwell in his 1946 official photograph (2) Medallions achieved by Pual Elwell (3) 1944 Swindon Advertiser…

Get Your Tickets! George Luz Jr & the actor who portrayed his father will be joining us! Band of Brothers Actors Reunion – Normandy 2015

Wargaming

When & Where: June 5, 6 & 7, 2015 at Overlord Omaha Beach Museum, the Utah Beach Museum and the Richard D. Winters Leadership Monument…

Panther: Probably the best German tank design of WWII?

Image@Mark Barnes Probably the best German tank design of WWII. . The basic design of the Panther can be traced back to drawings produced in…

Medals of WWII Dambusters Hero Richard Trevor-Roper Set to Go Under the Gavel for £60k

The medals of Dambusters hero Richard Trevor-Roper are set to go under the gavel this coming March after his family found them stored inside a…

GUEST BLOGGER U-Boat Hunter Innes McCartney: The Discovery of U2506 (image heavy)

By Dr Innes McCartney During the Operation Deadlight Expeditions, we aimed to find, record and identify some of the 116 U-boats that were dumped at…

GUEST BLOGGER U-Boat Hunter Innes McCartney: The Discovery of U2506 (image heavy)

By Dr Innes McCartney During the Operation Deadlight Expeditions, we aimed to find, record and identify some of the 116 U-boats that were dumped at…

A visit to the Deelen Air War Museum

Near the Dutch town of Arnhem is a small but fantastic Air War museum about the air war from 1940-1945. The museum is housed on the…

U-Boat Hunter Innes McCartney: Finding the second-largest naval war grave in the Channel & it’s a Kriegsmarine wreck (image heavy)

BACK WHEN YOU COULD COUNT the number of trimix divers in the UK on the fingers of two hands, I began working on a list…