Facts You Didn’t Know About Hitler’s Invasion of the Soviet Union
A quick look at the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany in 33 facts 1.The invasion of the Soviet Union was the most…
Das Boot, The Background, Facts and Goofs
“Das Boot” is a 1981 German war film epic. Meaning “The Boat,” it is an adaptation of Lothar-Günther Buchheim’s 1973 German novel of the same…
Otto Rahn, secretly anti-Nazi, Joined The SS In Search For The Holy Grail and Became The Inspiration For Indiana Jones
Otto Wilhelm Rahn was a German writer and medievalist who was obsessed with finding the Holy Grail. This was the cup that Jesus supposedly drank…
Down Street Tube Station Where Churchill Hid from Luftwaffe Bombs, Opens to Public
From being an actual tube station for a quarter of a century to becoming Winston Churchill’s hideaway during WWII [he fondly nicknamed the abandoned Down…
Bletchley Park Code Breakers – A Secret Letter From Eisenhower
Imagine today’s world without computers – imagine further – a world of ciphers, secret letters, code breakers and secret intelligence centres – this is the…
Soldier Missing in Action for 72 Years to Return Home
A 97-year-old man in Minnesota who waited 72 years for his younger brother to return home from World War II may finally get his wish…
Mike Durant (Black Hawk Down) – Not an Ordinary Man
On first meeting Michael J. Durant, you would find him a pleasant, ordinary, American, family man. He enjoys playing ice hockey and is also dynamic…
The Notorious Andersonville Confederate POW Camp Where 13,000 Died and Henry Wirz
“Hang Him” and “Remember Andersonville” were epithets screamed by former Union prisoners of war at the hanging, on 10th November 1895, of one of America’s…
Veterans who Fought in Vietnam War Find Peace Living in the Very Villages they Fought in
While many think that men who serve in war would be ecstatic to finally come home, that is not the case with some. During the…
American WWII Pilot Attends Reopening of American Air Museum in England
The 91-year-old Bill Toombs still recalls the sight of 2,000 warplanes over Europe during the D-Day landings in June 1944. “You will never see that…
Swiss Bunkers take on a new lease on life
Switzerland that famously neutral country, situated slap-bang in the middle of Europe, has not fought a war in over two hundred years. This fact has…
Medals from World War I and II Found in Riverbank, Returned to Family
Two people picking up litter found a cash box along the River Loddon in Berkshire, England. They found something that usually belongs in a museum…