Catch Me if You Can: Franz Von Werra The Only German POW to Escape From Canada and Get Back Into the Fight
A POW escaping from captivity has long been one of the more fascinating plot lines of World War 2. For all the war’s brutality, there…
Pierre Ortiz: French Legionnaire, US Marine, Hollywood Actor, German Nightmare
In late 1944, a man sat in a French café wearing a long, dark cape. Around him were German officers grumbling and cursing President Roosevelt,…
The Fascinating story of Tokyo Rose – an American woman forced to broadcast WW2 propaganda by the Japanese
Radio propaganda was a prominent part of World War II and perhaps no on-air propagandist was more well-known than Iva Toguri, also known as “Tokyo…
Hanns Scharff – Nazi Germany’s POW “Master Interrogator” Who Used Kindness Not Brutality
The Nazis had a “Master Interrogator” who was so good at getting information out of prisoners that he became a legend. His methods were so…
9 Feb 1945: Victory at the Colmar Pocket, Germans Eviction From The West Bank of The Rhine
On 9 February 1945, the last German forces on the west bank of the River Rhine were defeated by the French and Americans. The defeat…
The Marshalls-Gilberts Raids of 1942: America’s Pearl Harbor Payback
American President Franklin Roosevelt spoke words that would last for decades, for centuries when he decreed that December 7, 1941 would forever be a day…
HMS Audacious: The Only Super-Dreadnought Sunk in WWI – By A German Naval Mine
The biggest, most advanced, most expensive, and most daunting war machinery of World War I was the super-dreadnought battleship. These great sea beasts were near…
The Teutonic Knights, The Hospitallers, And The Templars: Massive Battle of Tannenberg, 1410
The Crusades were monumental military efforts to secure the lands around Jerusalem. Two orders of warrior monks, the Templars, and Hospitallers, had great successes in…
SS Officer Dirlewanger: A Violent Alcoholic, Sadist & One of the Worst Nazi War Criminals
The notorious 36th Waffen Grenadier Divison of the SS earned its appalling reputation mostly on the Eastern Front where they freely conducted numerous war crimes…
Iconic Battlefields of WWII Then & Now
After just over 70 years, we look back at 11 iconic locations of the Second World War as they were then – and as they are…
Tito’s Top Secret Underground Airbase Zeljava
Given that Zeljava is a huge complex of underground and overground military facilities, it has been quite a challenge to write an article about it.…
Wacko: Making An Aircraft Carrier Out of Ice and Sawdust In WW2
In WWII the British were desperate. Metal was in short supply, and German U-boats were sinking Britain’s lifeline – ships. The Allies needed an unsinkable…