The Zippo Lighter: An Icon Of The Vietnam War
April 14, 2019
One of the Longest Sieges of WWII: The Destruction of Leningrad
April 14, 2019
Audie Murphy: The Film Career of an American War Hero
April 13, 2019
Ypres: The Last Post at the Menin Gate
April 13, 2019
Schindler’s List “Girl in the Red Coat” was Left Traumatized After Watching Herself in the Spielberg Movie
April 13, 2019
No Artillery Support and a Casualty Rate of 75%: The Australians at Bullecourt WWI
April 13, 2019
The Massacre of the Katyn Forest
April 12, 2019
When Six Canadians Were Awarded the Victoria Cross in a Single Battle in WWI
April 12, 2019
The Korean Soldier who was Captured on D-day Fighting for Germany
April 12, 2019
Ancient Monument Reveals Secrets of History-Changing Battle
April 12, 2019
Tough Life, Tough Man: Charles Bronson Went From Miner To Nose Gunner
April 12, 2019
Lost Bombs, Crashed Aircraft and Missing Submarines: US Military Nuclear Near Misses.
April 11, 2019
How JFK’s Assassination Secured the Future of Britain’s SAS
April 11, 2019
The Destruction of Zeppelin L-15 IN WWI
April 11, 2019
The Longest Continuous Battle of WW2 – 5 Years, 8 Months & 5 Days
April 10, 2019
How DID Switzerland Manage to Remain Neutral During WWII?
April 10, 2019
The WWII POW Who Sank A German Ship With A Milk Tin!
April 10, 2019
The Imitation Game: Who Were The Top Code Breakers of WWII?
April 10, 2019
The American Doolittle Raid And The Brutal Japanese Reprisals
April 10, 2019
Maynard Harrison Smith Was Given Two Options: Go to Jail or Join the Army – He Wound Up Receiving the Medal of Honor
April 09, 2019
The WW2 Fighter Ace Who Broke the Sound Barrier in Secret
April 09, 2019
Looting, Violence, Organised Crime – Britain in The Blitz
April 09, 2019
When 5,000 British Archers Defeated Over 30,000 French Knights
April 09, 2019
Warrior of Skies That Downed 352 Allied Aircraft, The Worlds Greatest Flying Ace
April 09, 2019
FROMELLES: Considered The Worst 24 Hours of Australia’s Military History
April 09, 2019
What if America Had Been Conquered By The Germans in WWII?
April 08, 2019
Took Guts & Ruthlessness: A Sabotage Operation of WW2
April 08, 2019
The Crazy Dangers of Submarines Under Ice: To the North Pole & Back
April 08, 2019
A Damn Good Lickin: When the Aussies Fought off an American Invasion
April 07, 2019
The Ghosts of Gettysburg: A Haunted History of a Battlefield
April 07, 2019
Flying Coffins! – The Top Ten Worst Aircraft of WWII
April 07, 2019
Why Did The US Dump $10 Million Worth of Helicopters in The Sea?
April 07, 2019
ANZACS: The Australians & New Zealanders at Gallipoli, 1915
April 06, 2019
Did You Know? One of the Last Units Defending Führer’s Bunker Were Frenchmen?
April 06, 2019
The Fantastic Idea of Dazzle Camouflage
April 06, 2019
Rock Apes: How Vietnam’s ‘Rock Apes’ Confounded American GIs
April 05, 2019
Monsters of the Sky: The WWI Zeppelin Raids On Britain
April 05, 2019
Pearl Harbor: The Worst Military Decision In History?
April 05, 2019
The Battle of Messines 1917: Australian & New Zealand Troops Together
April 05, 2019
From Booze to Bombs: The Beer Carrying Spitfires of WWII
April 04, 2019
Why WERE WWII Aircraft Painted With Camouflage Patterns?
April 04, 2019
The Top Ten Most Terrifying Weapons of WWII
April 04, 2019
How Ingenuity, Skill & The Humble Sandbag Saved a Squadron of Hurricanes
April 04, 2019
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig: The Most Controversial Figure of WWI?
April 03, 2019
Fighting for Mother England: The Australian Infantry in WW1
April 03, 2019
The Real War Horse: WWI Grave Saved From Development Plans
April 03, 2019
Kiev: The Largest Encirclement In The History Of Warfare
April 02, 2019
The Maginot Line: Then and Now- From Defence to Discos!
April 02, 2019
The Mystery Of The Missing Billions: The Hunt For Yamashita’s Lost WWII Gold
April 02, 2019
Born in 1842 The Oldest Veteran Of The US Civil War Who Lived Until 1953!
April 02, 2019
A One Man Arsenal: German Stormtroops of WWI
April 02, 2019
We Were Soldiers: 10 Facts About the Battle of Ia Drang
April 02, 2019
When Tanks Overran the Green Berets: The Battle of Lang Vei
April 01, 2019
The Axis Dakotas of WWII
April 01, 2019
Charged at 12 Germans With His Bayonet – Double Medal of Honor Recipient
April 01, 2019
WWI Treasure To Be Salvaged From British Shipwreck Sunk by U-Boat
April 01, 2019
Was History’s Greatest Ever Military Leader an Unknown Korean Admiral?
April 01, 2019
What Was It That Made Mongol Warriors So Unstoppable?
April 01, 2019
The Most Senior Nazi NEVER Caught: Gestapo Chief Mueller
April 01, 2019
Great Escape Hero Diary Fetched $18,000 at Auction
April 01, 2019
The Times They Are A Changin’ Drugs, Music, & The Vietnam War
March 31, 2019
The Führer’s Crimes: Hitler was a Tax Evader
March 31, 2019
When 500 Knights Defeated 40,000 Soldiers From the Ottoman Empire: The Siege of Malta
March 31, 2019
Basket Case, Strafe & Cooties: WWI Slang Still in Use Today
March 30, 2019
Mad Max Move Over: The Armored Gun Trucks of Vietnam
March 30, 2019
14 Photos of the Remnants of War Prove that Nature Always Prevails
March 30, 2019
Mussolini’s Downfall & How Italy Managed to be on the Winning Side in WWII
March 29, 2019
Rome Vs Carthage: The Largest Naval Battles in Ancient History
March 29, 2019
The Czechoslovaks who Took on the Might of the Fascist Onslaught in the Battle of Kiev
March 29, 2019
Remains of Heroic Spitfire Pilot who Crashed in Italian Village Finally Laid to Rest
March 29, 2019
What Does “Axis” Really Mean?
March 29, 2019
“Never Surrender” The Japanese Soldier who Kept Fighting 30 Years After WW2 Ended
March 28, 2019
Japan: Germany’s Ally in WWII- Help or Hindrance?
March 28, 2019
John Wayne, Draft Dodger? Why the Duke Never Served In World War II
March 28, 2019
The Battle of Le Cateau: Britain’s Bloody Nose in WWI
March 28, 2019
Amazing Drone Footage of the Crossroads Battlefield with Scenes from “Band of Brothers”
March 28, 2019
Flying Dogs: Five of the Worst British Warplanes Ever!
March 27, 2019
Wiped Out up to 50 Million, Spanish Flu Carried to Europe by US Troops Heading for the Trenches of WWI
March 27, 2019
Controversial Mossad Chief who Helped Capture Adolf Eichmann Passes Away
March 27, 2019
The Policeman who Jumped From East to West Germany in a Single Leap
March 27, 2019
The Bloody Siege of Rhodes: The Ottomans & Their Unstoppable Empire
March 27, 2019
“I Love the Smell of Napalm in the Morning.” The 5 Best Movies About Nam
March 27, 2019
How was Jefferson Davis a Union General and The Confederate President?
March 26, 2019
The Mystery of the Sinking of the USS Scorpion
March 26, 2019
Churchill’s Catastrophe: The Disaster Before Gallipoli
March 26, 2019
Britain’s Pearl Harbor: Japan Repeats Its Success of WWII
March 26, 2019
The Ghost Army Of WWII – The Real-Life “Phantom Menace”
March 25, 2019
Big Ego, Love Him or Hate Him But MacArthur Lead From the Front in WWI
March 25, 2019
Spielberg and Mendes to Shoot new WW1 Movie
March 25, 2019
The Blockhaus – The Gigantic WWII German Bunker you can Still Visit Today
March 25, 2019
The Wretched Fate of The USS Thresher
March 25, 2019
Wounded Four Times The WW1 Carrier Pigeon That Flew to the Rescue
March 25, 2019
The Forgotten Invasion of France
March 25, 2019
5 American Armored Cars of World War II
March 25, 2019
Rin Tin Tin: The WW1 Dog Who Became a Film Star.
March 24, 2019
The Time When WW1 Veterans Turned a Peace Day Into a Riot!
March 24, 2019
The Russian Reindeer Who Served On A British Sub
March 24, 2019
Did You Know? 10 Cool Movie Facts About Platoon
March 24, 2019
Did You Know Houdini Taught US Soldiers How to Survive a Torpedoed Ship
March 23, 2019
Vietnam Vermin: The Story of the Tunnel Rats
March 23, 2019
K Rations Included Chewing Gum for Several Reasons
March 23, 2019
Guns of Navarone: How Effective was Coastal Artillery in WWII?
March 23, 2019
What if Britain had Lost the Battle Above its Skies in WWII?
March 23, 2019
Foo Fighters Learn to Fly: UFOs of WWII
March 23, 2019
‘A Decision to Serve’ The Korean War Veteran Who Upheld a Family Legacy
March 22, 2019
The Impregnable City Walls of Constantinople Finally Fell To a 21-year-old Sultan.
March 21, 2019
Could Hitler Have Avoided Defeat in Soviet Union?
March 21, 2019
The Order Of The Assassins: Medieval Masters Of Asymmetric Warfare.
March 21, 2019
The Eastern Legions – One Million Foreign Recruits
March 21, 2019
The German Units Tasked To Throw The Normandy Invasion Back Into The Sea
March 20, 2019
From the Windy City to The Cold War: Dennis & Honest John.
March 20, 2019
Springboard to NASA – The Flight-path of an Astronaut.
March 20, 2019
Barking Mad Story! British Cavemen Were To Plot Third Reich Shipping
March 20, 2019
Battlefield Babe: The Eight Year Old Soldier Of WWI
March 20, 2019
Wrecked Sub 102 Feet Down & Men Were Still Alive, He Volunteered To Dive To Save Them
March 20, 2019
Beautiful Story: Life-Saving Coin From WWI is For Sale
March 20, 2019
Be Prepared For Warm Beer & Horrid Coffee: A GI’s Guide to Britain During WWII
March 19, 2019
Just Amazing The USS Wasp Wreck Discovered 2.5 Miles Down on the Pacific Seafloor
March 19, 2019
Prostitution, The Black Market & 6000 Trucks – The Red Ball Express
March 19, 2019
I am a Lover not a Fighter: The Roman Emperor Forced into War
March 19, 2019
The Most Destructive Bombing Campaign? Actually it Was Tokyo Not Hiroshima
March 19, 2019
From Himmler’s Darling to Dachau Inmate : The Fraudulent Nazi Doctor.
March 18, 2019
Danger UXB: World War II Bombs Unearthed.
March 18, 2019
The Guardians of Scotland & The English Aggressors
March 18, 2019
A Most Unmotherly Act: Magda Goebbels,The First Lady of the Third Reich.
March 18, 2019
Reenactors in Normandy: A Pleasure or a Pain? Time to Raise Their Game?
March 17, 2019
The Cromwell: The Fastest British Tank of WWII
March 17, 2019
Did You Know Michael Caine is a Korean War Veteran?
March 17, 2019
Wacko But True: The Baboon Who Served in WW1
March 17, 2019
The Flying French: The Nieuport Fighting Scouts of WWI
March 17, 2019
Genghis Khan: A Visionary Leader or a Brutal Conqueror?
March 17, 2019
The Accountant Of Auschwitz : The True Story Of The Third Reich
March 16, 2019
Tolkien’s War: Mordor Was Born in WW1
March 16, 2019
Hail Mary: NFL Players and Coaches Sacrificed During WWII
March 16, 2019
The Only VC Recipient of Battle of Britain His Plane in Flames Continued to Chase The Bf 110
March 16, 2019
Gas Gas Gas! Its First Ever Use – Ypres 1915
March 16, 2019
Filtering War: Kleenex Fights the Horrors of Gas Warfare
March 15, 2019
Centurions and Cohorts: X Facts about the Roman Army
March 14, 2019
Yes But Did British Spies REALLY use Semen as Invisible Ink?
March 13, 2019
A Slippery Road: Mussolini’s Disastrous Invasion of Greece
March 13, 2019
Heroes of America: The Civil War Within the Confederacy
March 13, 2019
Spy Once, Live Twice – A Legendary Double-Agent Faked His Death For 36 Years
March 13, 2019
Web of Intrigue: How a Spider Helped With Scottish Independence
March 13, 2019
Hell From Above : The Messerschmitt Bf 110 Night Fighter
March 12, 2019
Braveheart: Fact or Fiction? The Real William Wallace
March 12, 2019
Loose Lips Do Sink Ships
March 12, 2019
Lions Led by Donkeys: British Soldiers of WW1
March 12, 2019
Crossword Alarm: The Puzzle That Nearly Stopped D-Day
March 11, 2019
Unknown Soldiers: Quest To Identify The Remains Of WW1 Tommies
March 11, 2019
A Mad Major: The Canadian Hero Who Captured A City
March 11, 2019
Tiger Tanks & Tea: The British Cup of Char in War
March 10, 2019
The Brave Resistance Fighters of WWII Slovakia
March 09, 2019
Strange But True: When US & German Forces Defeated the Waffen SS
March 09, 2019
Japanese George Washington-The Bare Handed Tiger Slayer
March 09, 2019
The German Breakthrough at Sedan, May 1940
March 08, 2019
Blood Transfusion Tripled Survival Rates: How WW1 Had an Impact on Blood Donation
March 08, 2019
101st Airborne: The Lightning in Desert Storm
March 08, 2019
It Wiped Out Large Numbers of Its Own Pilots – The Unstable Sopwith Camel
March 08, 2019
Soviet Storm – The Battle of Stalingrad
March 07, 2019
The Bombardier Brown Bear who Fought at Monte Casino
March 07, 2019
A Tiger in Africa? The Iconic Tiger I Growling in Full Video Glory
March 07, 2019
Angels’ Glow at The Battle Of Shiloh
March 06, 2019
God Save the Queen: Elizabeth in WWII
March 06, 2019
The Not So Noblewoman Who Turned Pirate
March 06, 2019
Through German Eyes-The Aftermath of the Dunkirk Evacuations
March 04, 2019
Bombs,Bullets and Beer-The British Brew Barge of WWII
March 03, 2019
Potato Masher Turned to Chips – WW1 Grenade Found in Hong Kong
March 03, 2019
Tough Choice But The 82nd Airborne Inducted 20 Members Into Its Hall of Fame
March 03, 2019
Bf 109 Pilot Franz Stigler (who saluted) & B-17 Pilot Charlie Brown’s (who thus survived)
March 03, 2019
Whoops – When The USA Dropped a Nuclear Bomb onto a Farm in North Carolina
March 03, 2019
The Heavyweight Monster Tanks of WW2
March 02, 2019
The Three Hundred & Thirty-Five Years’ War – The Longest War In History
March 02, 2019
More to The Ill-fated Mongol Invasions of Japan Than Just a “Divine Wind”
March 02, 2019
Formed in WW1: The Remarkable Beginnings of the 82nd Airborne
March 02, 2019
When Japanese Forces Occupied American Soil
March 02, 2019
Whippet – The Other British Tank of World War One
March 01, 2019
Up Up And Away- Letters From Above
March 01, 2019
‘An Unknown Destination Overseas’
March 01, 2019
WW1 on The Eastern Front-Where Wolves Attacked Soldiers
March 01, 2019
A Long Horizon: From The Normandy Beaches to the Byzantine Empire
March 01, 2019
The Hunt for the Pride of the German Navy – Admiral Graf Spee
February 28, 2019
Mata Hari-The Naked Truth of The WW1 Spy
February 28, 2019
The Deadliest German Sniper Of WW2 Fought on the Eastern Front With Such Accuracy
February 28, 2019
What Would Have Happened to Him if The Soviets Had Captured Hitler?
February 28, 2019
The First 45 Days Of Badoglio’s Government – 25 July 1943
February 27, 2019
Counting Arrows: How the Persian Empire Counted Its Dead
February 27, 2019
Southern Safari-The Most Ironic Last Words in Military History
February 27, 2019
Brandenburgers – The Nazi Menace Behind Enemy Lines
February 27, 2019
We Were Soldiers – Lt. Gen. Hal Moore
February 27, 2019
From Zero to Hero- Saburō Sakai-The Samurai of the Skies
February 26, 2019
From The Horses Mouth-Secret Codes in Equestrian Statues
February 26, 2019
Book Review-Forgotten Tanks and Guns of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s
February 26, 2019
Beetle Bailey & The Real Sgt. Snorkel
February 26, 2019
US Submarine Plays Cat & Mouse With Japanese Navy
February 26, 2019
A New Pattern For War: French Camouflage During WW1
February 25, 2019
Josef Mengele- The Angel of Death
February 25, 2019
Handheld For Victory-10 Infantry Weapons of WW2
February 25, 2019
The Auld Alliance -Scotland The Brave
February 25, 2019
Bounty Jumpers: Con-Men Paid to Enlist then Desert
February 24, 2019
Massive Jagdtigers Were Almost Invincible On The Battlefield: The Problem Was Getting Them There
February 23, 2019
Commandant of Auschwitz, Was an Affectionate Dad Hugged & Kissed His Kids Before Going to Work
February 23, 2019
The 16-Year-Old WWI Officer Who Led His Men Over The Top, Lost A Leg, Still Insisted On Returning To Fight
February 23, 2019
An Artist Who Became The USSR’s Most Lethal Sniper Dispatched Over 500 Germans
February 22, 2019
Hitler’s Plans for a New World Order After His Victory in WW2
February 22, 2019
The Concentration Camp in Italy – Servigliano Camp 59
February 22, 2019
Tarawa Veteran Sees Picture of The Man Who Saved His Life 70 Years Ago
February 22, 2019
How an Outdated Biplane, Took Out the Gigantic Battleship Bismarck
February 21, 2019
A Strange Story From The Civil War: There in McLean’s parlor, Grant & Lee Hashed Out The Surrender
February 21, 2019
Total Warrior Was Awarded The Victoria Cross TWICE – An Incredible Human Being
February 21, 2019
Battle Of Saipan Suicides: The Largest Banzai Charge of the Entire War, 4000 Japanese Troops
February 21, 2019
The Mystery of the Lost Legion: One of the Most Experienced Legions Vanished
February 21, 2019
The Bunker of the “Beast of Auschwitz” Found in a Convent 70 Years After WWII
February 20, 2019
Sex Outside of Marriage: Lebensborn, How Hitler Planned a Master Race
February 20, 2019
America’s Forgotten WWI Hero Who Beat the Germans Bare Handed
February 20, 2019
A Savage & Brutal Affair. Hand-To-Hand Combat in WW1
February 20, 2019
Against all Odds-The US Rangers & Their Heroic Assault on Pointe Du Hoc
February 19, 2019
Amazonian Warriors of the Ancient Worlds
February 19, 2019
Major-General Gubbins-The Man who Made Dirty Warfare a Passion.
February 19, 2019
Does Size Really Matter? – The Big Guns of WW1
February 18, 2019
General Orde Wingate: Brilliant Eccentric
February 18, 2019
To Do My Duty. The Scout Master & Hitler’s Nuclear Program
February 18, 2019
The Tupolev Tu-128: The Largest Fighter Aircraft to Ever be in Service
February 17, 2019
The Right Decision? Heroic End Of French Fleet – Scuttled 77 Ships To Avoid Capture By Nazi Germany
February 17, 2019
Tokyo Mose & the Ear Medal – The Irreverent Antidote to Tokyo Rose
February 17, 2019
Hanbury Crater: 4000 Tons of Bombs, Million Rounds & Britain’s biggest WWII Explosion
February 16, 2019
The Marine The Viet Cong Couldn’t Break He Was Last Seen On a Jungle Trail in November 1967
February 16, 2019
Liquid Fire – How Napalm Turned Vietnam Into a Fiery Hell
February 16, 2019
Seven Strange Looking German Armored Cars of WW2
February 16, 2019
Marine & Lone Ranger Actor Wasn’t KIA He Actually Died of Alcohol Poisoning From Drinking Moonshine
February 16, 2019
Singing Saw: The Impressive MG 42 With Cool Footage
February 16, 2019
Battle of the Bulge: Patton Ordered The Priest to Pray For Clear Weather, The Weather Subsequently Cleared
February 16, 2019
No, Polish Cavalry Never Charged German Tanks at Krojanty
February 15, 2019
WW2 Commando & Korean War Fighter Pilot & Australia’s First Recipient of America’s Air Medal & Purple Heart
February 15, 2019
Commando-Style Raid: Stealing Fuhrer’s Radar
February 15, 2019
The Most Powerful Explosions of WWI
February 15, 2019
The Sack Of Baghdad In 1258 – One Of The Bloodiest Days In Human History
February 15, 2019
‘It was our war’ – Veteran Describes Service With U.S. Navy Seabees in WW2
February 14, 2019
When Iceland Wanted To Remain Neutral In WW2, Britain Had Other Ideas
February 14, 2019
The “Ceramic Grenade”: Japan’s last-ditch weapon of WWII
February 13, 2019
“White Lily of Stalingrad” & The Valiant Women Pilots of The Soviet Union
February 13, 2019
Famous Cellist Frieda Belinfante Dressed as a Man to Save Jews
February 13, 2019
The Super Fighter That Never Was – The Heinkel 113
February 13, 2019
The Louisiana Native Guards – The First African-American Civil War Unit To Go Into Battle
February 13, 2019
The German U-Boat. The Deadliest Hunter Of The Sea -The Destroyer of Souls
February 12, 2019
Firestorm Hell: Operation Gomorrah – ‘Hiroshima’ of Germany
February 12, 2019
Nazi Death Camp Prisoners Revolted – A Tale Of Incredible Courage
February 12, 2019
Pearl Harbor: Massive Mission for Midget Submarines Part 3
February 12, 2019
Republic P-47 Thunderbolt: The Most Produced American Fighter of World War II
February 12, 2019
Barking Mad Major Straps Bazookas To Airplane. Goes Tank Hunting!
February 12, 2019
Battle of Sokolovo: The 969 Czechoslovaks Had to Walk More Than 217 Miles
February 11, 2019
The English and Their Country. A GI’s Guide to WW2 Britain & Its Weather
February 10, 2019
Tiny Lithuania Was Once a Superpower of Europe
February 10, 2019
The One Man Tank Destroyer, Awarded a VC For Actions At Arnhem
February 10, 2019
Pearl Harbor: Massive Mission for Midget Submarines, Part 1
February 10, 2019
The truth About Erwin König Sent to Stalingrad to Take on The Very Effective Soviet Snipers
February 09, 2019
From The Atlantic to Pacific: The American Civil War on the West Coast
February 09, 2019
Ferdinand – The Tank the Germans Couldn’t Admit was a Total Failure
February 09, 2019
Carl Lutz, The Amazing Swiss Diplomat Who Saved Tens of Thousands of Jews During WW2
February 09, 2019
‘Cockleshell Heroes’ Raid Ruined Another Unit’s Plans Which Would Have Caused More Damage
February 08, 2019
The Battle Of Dien Bien Phu – The Last Pitched Battle Fought By A European Colonial Power In Southeast Asia
February 08, 2019
Mr Immortal – Awarded the MoH age 17 – Used His Body To Shield His Squad From Two Grenades
February 08, 2019
The Maus Tank – An Crazy Invention, But Would It Have Been Effective Enough To Change The Outcome Of WWII?
February 08, 2019
5 of WWII’s Most Valuable Treasures Still Missing Today
February 08, 2019
Differing By Just 1mm The US 76mm Guns Were So More Effective Than The 75mm Guns
February 08, 2019
Ambroise Paré – 16th Century Surgeon and Father of Military Medicine
February 08, 2019
Nazi commander Walter Rauff Escaped Justice for The Extermination of 100,000 People, He Died a Free Man In 1984
February 08, 2019
Stalin’s kamikaze Canines, Soviets Trained Dogs to Blow up Tanks
February 07, 2019
“Lancaster Skies” – WW2 Bomber Command Feature Film Set For Release (Trailer Inside)
February 07, 2019
“Taking Flak” & Other English Expressions That Have Their Origins In WW2
February 07, 2019
Bizarre: He Taught His Dog To do The Nazi Salute, They Spent 3 Months Trying to Prosecute Him
February 07, 2019
Syndrome K, The Fake Disease Created by a 28-Year-Old Dr to Save Jewish Lives During WW2
February 07, 2019
The British Operatives Who Came Too Late to Save Poland, & the Treasure They Brought Back
February 06, 2019
Eileen Nearne, a British WW2 Heroine & Sort of Female James Bond
February 06, 2019
Dries Riphagen, The Silver-Tongued Dutch Criminal, Sent Many Jews to Concentration Camps
February 06, 2019
Revealing the Ineffectiveness of Early British Night-Bombing Raids
February 06, 2019
The Battle Of Stalingrad Involved 2.2 Million People – One Of The Biggest Battles In History
February 06, 2019
Was Fanta Really Invented in Germany?
February 06, 2019
The German Corpse Factory – Great Piece of British Propaganda
February 06, 2019
The Battle of Berlin & the Berlin Zoo, The Soviets Wiped Out One-Third of the Animals in One Night
February 06, 2019
Fire Against Fog: How the British Dealt With One of the Most Disruptive Aviation Challenges
February 06, 2019
The Canadian Rambo, Jumped Into the Bunker & Took On 53 Germans & Won
February 05, 2019
After WW2 The 10th Mountain Division Veterans Started America’s Ski Industry
February 05, 2019
The Japanese I-400-class Sub: The Largest Sub of WW2 Could Carry Capacity of 3 Torpedo Bombers
February 05, 2019
The Brave Catholic Priest Who Volunteered To Die In A Stranger’s Place
February 05, 2019
Blitzkrieg Was Literally Fueled by Speed Part of an Effort to Make Individuals “superhuman”
February 03, 2019
Tamerlane Wiped Out Perhaps 17 Million People With Just Fire & Swords
February 03, 2019
How a Vietnam War Photographer Saved Marines by Jumping on a Grenade, Awarded the Medal of Honor Posthumously
February 03, 2019
Pegasus Bridge: Why Did a British Soldier Shell a Maternity Hospital On D-Day?
February 03, 2019
USS Archerfish: Sinking the 72,000-ton Aircraft Carrier Shinano
February 03, 2019
I Visited Auschwitz-Birkenau, The More I Know, the Less I Understand
February 03, 2019
High School Football Coach Gained Valuable Experience in US Navy in WWII
February 02, 2019
Daks over Normandy D-Day 75 Programme Biggest fleet of DC-3’s & C-47’s Since WW2
February 02, 2019
Slim Pickens Stated His Profession Was “rodeo”, the Recruiter Heard “radio”, Slim Spent WW2 as a Radio Operator
February 02, 2019
To This Day, The Myth Still Abounds: Why Didn’t The Germans Invade Switzerland?
February 02, 2019
WW2 Spy Who Pulled Off A Real Life James Bond Mission & Inspired An Iconic Goldfinger Scene
February 02, 2019
Kazimierz Moczarski – Resistance Fighter, Assassin, Anti-Communist Rebel, Cellmate Of Infamous Nazi Jürgen Stroop
February 01, 2019
The Beautiful Angel of Bordeaux – He Saved Thousands of Lives as Germans Were Storming France
February 01, 2019
Medal of Honor Recipients are Entitled to Much More Than the Medal Including $1,300 a Month
February 01, 2019
The United States Actually Planned on Dropping 12 Atomic Bombs on Japan
February 01, 2019
Short-Lived & Largely Forgotten Westland Whirlwind
January 31, 2019
Crazy Inventions of WW2, Itchy Powder, Exploding Poop, Fake Feet
January 31, 2019
Did The US Government Ever Plan to Use The Atomic Bomb on Germany?
January 31, 2019
Churchill & Roosevelt Met in Tehran, Cairo, Moscow, Close to or Over Enemy Territory. Why Did Countries Take Such Risks With Leaders?
January 31, 2019
Slovak National Uprising
January 30, 2019
Major Don Boyer, the Unsung Hero of St. Vith, German Grenades Came Tumbling into the American Trenches
January 30, 2019
Amazing Pictures of Tunnel Rats: The Warriors Who Infiltrated Underground Tunnels In The Vietnam War
January 30, 2019
Almost 250,000 Boys Under The Age Of 18 Fought In The British Army In WWI
January 30, 2019
Strange But True: During WWII the British Government Bought all of The World’s Tea
January 29, 2019
Phantom Fortress: The Crewless Landing of a B-17
January 29, 2019
How a Mathematician Stopped the Roman Army: The Siege of Syracuse
January 28, 2019
Parts of a USS Louisville Found in One of the Most Unexpected Places – Nevada Desert
January 27, 2019
How the Allies Guessed the Number of German Tanks Using Serial Numbers
January 26, 2019
Japan Surrendered, Civilians & POWs ‘Disappeared’ They Could No longer Testify to the Atrocities Committed by the Guards
January 23, 2019
Toys R Us: The WW2 Veteran Who Created A Toy Store Empire That Collapsed Only Days After His Death
January 23, 2019
Third of Military Budget of The Third Reich Consisted of Jewish Wealth
January 23, 2019
Outlaws and Outcasts Led by a Former Slave Overthrow a Dynasty
January 23, 2019
Keeping Enigma Secret From The Germans – Many Lives Were Lost Sacrificed Doing So
January 22, 2019
Canned Food & Processed Food Industry is an Aftermath of WW2 Ending Sooner Than Expected
January 22, 2019
Firing The .50 Cal From a Sherman Tank: How Often Was This Actually Done?
January 22, 2019
This German Officer Gave His Life In A Minefield To Save An American Soldier
January 21, 2019
Death is Not Defeat: Mass Suicides in Nazi Germany in 1945
January 21, 2019
Pilot Rammed an Italian Bomber Then Arrested the Surviving Crew With Just His Pistol
January 21, 2019
Death & Marriage in Civil War: John Marshal Gains Power in Medieval England
January 21, 2019
The Unsolved Mystery of Nanjing Battalion, Did 3,000 Chinese Troops Really Disappear in 1939?
January 20, 2019
Werner Goering, The US Bomber Pilot Whose Name Almost Got Him Assassinated By The FBI
January 20, 2019
Mystery of HMAS Sydney, Sunk in WW2 & the Strange Body That Washed Up On Christmas Island
January 20, 2019
The British Civilian Gas Mask: Full of Chemicals As Dangerous As The Gas it Was Protecting You From
January 20, 2019
The Brave Women of the Battle of Britain
January 19, 2019
Top Bombers & Pilots of WW2
January 19, 2019
9 American Cold War Tanks
January 19, 2019
List of Danish Nazis Made Available Online
January 19, 2019
In The Dark Shadows Of History – Nightmare At The Rapido
January 19, 2019
“Sawn-Off Lockie” The Most Successful British Pilot During the Battle of Britain
January 19, 2019
Fuel Tanks Empty, He Engaged The German, Shot Him Down & Somehow He Managed To Get Back to Base
January 18, 2019
Landed ‘Blind’: Shots Devastated the Hurricane’s Perspex Canopy, Throwing Splinters of Perspex Into His Eyes
January 18, 2019
How German Intelligence Agents Managed To Unearth A Ton Of Information From POWs
January 17, 2019
Who was this notorious & mysterious SS general, he just vanished in May ’45
January 17, 2019
Shot Down But Stayed in His Plane to Save Crashing On a Village
January 17, 2019
B-24 Pilot Saved 1000’s of POWS But Never Said a Word About His Wartime Heroism
January 17, 2019
Keep Calm and Carry On – the Fascinating History of The Iconic & Troubled WW2 Poster
January 17, 2019
Ghost Blimp Mystery of WW2 – Crashed in San Francisco & Crew Was Never Found
January 16, 2019
The Fall of WW2-era Germany in 30 Images
January 16, 2019
The Wake Island Rail, a Species of Bird that Became Extinct Because of WW2
January 16, 2019
Rear Admiral Richard Antrim: Awarded Medal Of Honor For An Act Of Valor Performed In A Prison Camp
January 16, 2019
Hank Bauer: WW2 Hero Who Went On To Become a 3 Time Yankee All-Star & World Series Champ
January 15, 2019
Anders Lassen: The Drunken Insubordinate Dane who Brawled His Way to the Victoria Cross
January 15, 2019
When Italy Dumped the Nazis for the Allies, the Consequence was Completely Unexpected: Malaria
January 15, 2019
Incredible Man – John Hannah, Putting Out Flames With His Bare Hands
January 14, 2019
The heroic pilot who, surrounded by flames & with blood pouring down his face, still shot down his enemy before bailing
January 14, 2019
Apparently 1000 Japanese Soldiers Entered Crocodile Infested Swamps, Only 20 Survived. Were The Allies Really Aided by Crocodiles?
January 14, 2019
Russia Ran Out of Vodka Celebrating The End of WW2, They Showed The World How To Party
January 13, 2019
The Day the “Germans” Invaded Winnipeg
January 13, 2019
The Most Highly Decorated NCO Fired Zero Gunshots
January 12, 2019
He Knew It Was a One Way Ticket, He Dashed Into The Flames & Saved His Ship & Friends
January 12, 2019
He Walked Through a Minefield, Took Out 3 Machine Guns With Grenades, Then Destroyed a Tank
January 12, 2019
Over-Dosed on Amphetamines, Stepped On a Mine, Laid in a Ditch, Skied 250 Miles To Escape The Russians
January 12, 2019
“Baddest Man in the 761st” He Went Full On Berserker Destroying Everything In His Path
January 12, 2019
Medal of Honor Recipient & A Super Bunker That Held Over 150 Japanese Soldiers – Neither Survived
January 11, 2019
No Experience: The Gunner Had to Fly The Bomber as The Pilot Had Taken Withering Enemy Fire
January 11, 2019
The Battle of Wizna – Around 800 Polish Soldiers Held Off 42,000 German Soldiers for Three Days
January 10, 2019
The Incredible Captain Noel Chavasse: One of the Few Men to be Awarded the Victoria Cross Twice
January 10, 2019
He Was the Last German Soldier to Surrender, Four Months After the End of WW2
January 10, 2019
The USA Made a Lot of Money From WW2: Britain Only Settled Debts from WWII in 2006
January 08, 2019
Aggressive warrior emperor from China’s less well known period of disunion
January 08, 2019
RAF Top Gun: He & 7 Fellow Pilots Took on 100 German Bombers
January 08, 2019
Downed 11 Japanese Planes & Flew, on an Almost Empty Tank, to The Aid of a Ship.
January 07, 2019
Five Female Heroes of WWII
January 07, 2019
What Happened To Prisoners Of War In Medieval England – There Was Good Money To Be Made
January 07, 2019
How Prevalent Was Looting by US Troops During WWII?
January 07, 2019
German Forces Captured Stalin’s Son, Stalin Didn’t Care – He Despised Him
January 07, 2019
The Soldier Who Kept Fighting WW2 For 29 Years After It Ended
January 06, 2019
Did Adolf Hitler ever visit the front lines during WWII?
January 06, 2019
The Largest Battleships Ever Built: Japanese Yamato & Musashi
January 06, 2019
Operation K, the Second Attack on Pearl Harbor Kept Secret for Decades
January 05, 2019
His right arm shattered, his submachine gun wedged into his left armpit, captured the enemy position
January 05, 2019
Why were WWII helmet designs so different by country & which design was the most effective?
January 05, 2019
The Amazing Medal of Honor Mission Old 666 had all its guns upgraded to .50 calibre and single handedly fought off a group of Japanese zeroes during a mission
January 05, 2019
Why Did the Japanese & Germans Form an Alliance in WWII?
January 04, 2019
Comparative Tank Repair 101- Were British Tanks More Reliable Than German Tanks?
January 04, 2019
5 unique Soviet Heroes of WW2
January 04, 2019
Teenage Hero of the Battle of Jutland & Recipient of the Victoria Cross
January 03, 2019
PPSh-41 – The Most Mass-Produced Submachine Gun of WWII
January 02, 2019
The BBC’s Coded Messages to the French Resistance During World War II
January 01, 2019
The First Bomb Dropped by The Allies on Berlin Didn’t Harm Anyone But Did Hit an Elephant in Berlin Zoo!
January 01, 2019
Single British Soldier Took over 300 Prisoners In Just One WWI Battle
December 31, 2018
He Actually Fought at Pegasus Bridge on D-Day Then Went on to Star in The Movie Longest Day
December 30, 2018
Five Incredible & Inspiring Tales of Bravery from the Battle of Britain
December 30, 2018
Three Italian PoWs Broke Out of a PoW Camp, Not to Escape But to Climb Mount Kenya For Fun!
December 30, 2018
The Japanese Thought this Tiny Island was Empty, They were Utterly Wrong
December 29, 2018
The Largely Overlooked Story of How Himmler “Saved” Thousands of Jews
December 29, 2018
The Mystery of Medieval Weapons & Armor – Where Did It All Go?
December 28, 2018
Most Decorated Unit in U.S. History Fought For a Country That Locked Up Their Families
December 28, 2018
Walther Wenck – Hitler’s Last Hope?
December 27, 2018
The A-1 Skyraider – Including the Toilet Bomb
December 26, 2018
Deadly Bigotry: When Canada, America & Cuba Rejected Jewish Refugees before WW2
December 26, 2018
15 Facts About the Sopwith Camel, the Most Effective Fighter of WWI
December 24, 2018
The P-38: The American Super-plane That The British Didn’t Want
December 24, 2018
Irena Sendler: The Remarkable Polish Woman Who Saved 2500 Children From The Nazis In WWII
December 24, 2018
Medal of Honor: High on Marijuana Peter Lemon Single-Handedly Fought Off Two Waves of Vietcong
December 23, 2018
B-24 Pilot Turned Spy Saved 1,000 US POWs From a Grim Ending at Soviet Hands
December 23, 2018
Part 2: The Death of George Patton – Was America’s most controversial general assassinated?
December 23, 2018
Great Story: When British Commandos Turned Pirate – Operation Postmaster
December 23, 2018
The Magician That Outsmarted the Desert Fox
December 23, 2018
The D-Day Piping Legend Bill Millin: Did Not Flinch as Snipers Shot at Him, He Kept Playing
December 22, 2018
People Forget China’s conflict with Japan Cost at Least Ten Million Lives
December 22, 2018
Six Top Secret Military Operations of the 20th Century
December 21, 2018
The Open Question Of George Patton’s Last Days
December 20, 2018
5 Cold War British Tanks – Best in The World?
December 20, 2018
Overlooked by the West: Soviets Lost More Troops Than Britain, USA, Japan & Germany Combined
December 20, 2018
The Spanish Mercenaries Were Outnumbered 500-1, The Battle of Cajamarca, 1532
December 19, 2018
The Battle of the Velbazhd (1330) Signaled the Beginning of Serbian Expansion
December 19, 2018
Crucifix Hill & The Insane One Man Bunker Buster Who Turned the Course of the Battle
December 19, 2018
Germany 1944-5 – a Nation Sliding From Triumph into Ruin
December 19, 2018
Good Question: Did Flamethrowers From WW2 Explode When Shot?
December 19, 2018
Assumed That Norris Had Died From Such a Devastating Injury – Thorton Saved Him
December 18, 2018
“I Came Here to Fight, Not go Home!” – The Story of Warrior Marine William D. Hawkins
December 18, 2018
A Larger Than Life Hero, And The Most Decorated Veteran Of The Vietnam War
December 17, 2018
Strange But True: The WWII Fort That Became a Country
December 16, 2018
The German Army Major Stopped the SS Liquidating a Jewish Ghetto & Lived
December 16, 2018
22 Facts You May Not Know About the Medal of Honor
December 16, 2018
The Brave Medic Continued to Help the Wounded After Losing His Arm in Battle
December 15, 2018
Historic & Iconic WWII Property For Sale in Normandy
December 15, 2018
Marine Raider – Veteran Served With Elite Amphibious Assault Group in Pacific during WWII
December 15, 2018
Master Sergeant & His Men Saved 200 Jewish Soldiers in a Concentration Camp
December 15, 2018
Yes You Have Always Wanted to Own a Tank Transporter – Should Fit on Your Drive
December 14, 2018
Many Black GIs Found a Safe Place in Britain in Contrast to Racist Abuse From Their Fellow Countrymen
December 14, 2018
A Hero: Chaplain Watters Seeing American Wounded Beyond The Perimeter, He Charged Out Again
December 14, 2018
Fire Base Was Going To Be Over Run By NVA, He Met Them With a Bayonet & an Assault Rifle
December 13, 2018
Witold Pilecki – The Man Who Voluntarily Went to Hell to Gather Information
December 13, 2018
The Desert Fox: A Formidable Adversary – Even To His Own Side
December 13, 2018
How One Navy SEAL was Awarded the MoH for Saving Another MoH Recipient
December 13, 2018
Wereth 11: They Felt Safe, That Night Would Turn Out to be Their Last, 1st SS Pulled up Outside
December 11, 2018
Fancy Parking an Armored Car on Your Drive? This One is For Sale
December 09, 2018
Swiss & Swedish SS volunteers Fighting to “Save” the World From the Jews
December 09, 2018
This Dentist Died In a Japanese Banzai Attack But He Took Over 90 Enemy Soldiers With Him
December 09, 2018
‘Mad’ Jack Churchill – The Only Man to Dispatch a German Soldier With a Longbow in WW2
December 09, 2018
Operation Harling – Cutting of Rommel’s Supplies, Sabotage in the Mountains of WW2
December 09, 2018
Have a Spare $100,000? An Iconic WW2 German Vehicle For Sale
December 08, 2018
Victoria Cross Hero: The Right Mix Of Brave & Crazy, The One Man Tank Destroyer at Arnhem
December 08, 2018
‘Erase the distinctions’ – Mid-Missouri soldier/physician inspired character in WWII-era comic strip
December 08, 2018
Did Germany Ever Stand a Chance of Winning WW2?
December 08, 2018
For Sale: Took Part in D-Day & Market Garden, Has Incredible History
December 07, 2018
Was the Panther Really the Best Tank of WW2?
December 07, 2018
Did German Americans Actually Leave the US to Fight for Germany During WWII?
December 06, 2018
The 1st Great Escape: Amazing Forgotten Story From WW1 PoWs Who Tunnelled Out of Camp Using Cutlery
December 06, 2018
The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh: The Last Pitched Battle Between England & Scotland
December 06, 2018
Mitchell Paige: The Man Who Took on 2,500 Japanese Soldiers & Won
December 05, 2018
A Reindeer Lived on a British Sub, Ate a Navigation Chart, Got so Fat it Couldn’t Get Back Out
December 04, 2018
Shooting a Modified Aircraft Machine Gun From The Hip, he Fired His Way Across Iwo Jima
December 01, 2018
How the Unbeatable German Tank Ended Up on Display in Belgium
December 01, 2018
Why Was There no Insurgency in Germany & Japan After WW2?
November 30, 2018
The Devil Walked the Earth: Reinhard Heydrich – Mastermind of the Holocaust & “Hangman” of Czechoslovakia
November 28, 2018
Last Seen Propped Against a Tree, Pistol in His Hand, 8 Japanese Lie Around Him
November 28, 2018
The Battle of Flodden: The Largest Battle Fought Between England and Scotland
November 27, 2018
Life in the Cauldron: The Tough Experience of British Troops Cut Off at Arnhem
November 27, 2018
The French Nazi Troops & the Battle of Berlin
November 27, 2018
Führer’s Military Incompetence, Did it Cost the Third Reich the War
November 27, 2018
Filming of The Bridge at Remagen in Czechoslovakia Was Interrupted by the Soviet Invasion in 1968
November 25, 2018
American Occupied England – Life in the D-Day Staging Zone
November 24, 2018
Dietrich von Saucken: The German General Who Told the Führer, ‘I Will Not Take Orders from a Local Chieftain’
November 24, 2018
5 Twentieth Century ‘British’ APCs
November 23, 2018
How Neutral Countries Responded to WW2 – Some Made a Fortune From It
November 23, 2018
17 Facts About the Spitfire – We all Know These, Right?
November 22, 2018
How France Fell to the Nazi Invaders
November 22, 2018
The Mines At Messines: The Biggest Explosions of the Pre-Nuclear Era
November 22, 2018
The Battle of the Atlantic
November 22, 2018
The Battle of Bosworth Field: How Richard III Lost His Kingdom & His Life
November 22, 2018
9 Soviet Fighter Planes of WW2 – Some fantastic Airplanes Here
November 22, 2018
Incredible Story he Held off the Japanese Military for 48hrs With Just Bayonets, Rage & Brute Force
November 20, 2018
We Were Soldiers: 22 trips in & out of LZ X-Ray, Choppers Got Shot up so Bad he Had to Use 3 Different Ones
November 20, 2018
Shot Down 26 Japanese Aircraft, Governor & NRA President Joe Foss
November 19, 2018
Bob Crisp: The Cricket Player and Tank Buster Who Took Out German Panzers In North Africa
November 19, 2018
The Italian “Stalingrad” When 2,600 Canadian Men Were Sacrificed for a General’s Pride
November 19, 2018
Took on 22 Japanese Fighters: Then Led an Infantry Charge on The Beach
November 18, 2018
Last US Casualty of WWI: Futile Gesture or Heroism?
November 18, 2018
Royal Marine Commandos: The Beginning of Best, 3 Brigade’s History in Photos
November 18, 2018
The submarine commander who sank a ship with Molotov cocktails
November 18, 2018
A Prolific Destroyer: Paddy Mayne – Founding Member of the SAS & a Total Hardcore Wild Warrior
November 17, 2018
Did you Know in 1945, the Navy Secretly Handed Over 150 Warships to Russia for an Invasion of Japan
November 17, 2018
WW2 “Sweetheart Grips” Surprisingly Few People Know About Them
November 17, 2018
The Gigantic Martin JRM Mars Flying Boat in Pictures
November 17, 2018
7 Innovative Explosives from Britain’s Eccentric WW2 Experts
November 17, 2018
Fascinating Story of The Peugeot Plant Attack: A Bold Covert Operation of WW2
November 16, 2018
Single-Handedly Charged over 100 German Soldiers Sending Them all into Retreat
November 16, 2018
Why Did French Police Helped the Nazis Deport France’s Jews
November 15, 2018
Crazy Price: Steve McQueen’s WW2 Jeep Sells for $108,000
November 15, 2018
5 Sopwith Fighter Planes in Over 35 Images
November 14, 2018
In Band of Brothers GIs Could Retun Home if They Had 85 Points, Was This True?
November 14, 2018
Over 100 Fascinating Pictures of British WW2 Tanks Some You Wouldn’t Have Seen Before
November 14, 2018
The Highest-Scoring Female Fighter Ace Ever: The Short but Daring Life of Lydia Litvyak
November 13, 2018
Fascinating Images of The Battle of Leyte Gulf
November 13, 2018
Brazilian Who Hated Hitler won the Silver Star in Italy During WWII
November 13, 2018
Patriots or traitors? The soldiers of General Vlasov in the service of the Nazis
November 12, 2018
1860: The First U.S. Navy Submarine: “Alligator”
November 12, 2018
The Ridiculous 1000 Ton Landkreuzer P.1000 “Ratte”
November 12, 2018
WWII Sturmovik pilot & Heroine of the Soviet Union, Sent to a Concentration Camp
November 12, 2018
The Iconic Image: The Vietnamese General Went on to Open Restaurant in The US
November 11, 2018
Hans-Ulrich Rudel: Flew more than 2000 missions, destroyed over 500 tanks & the most decorated combat pilot ever
November 11, 2018
‘Boss Hogg’ Sorrell Booke was a Counter-Intelligence Agent in the Korean War
November 11, 2018
In Band of Brothers Holocaust victims were locked back in the camp, did this really happen?
November 11, 2018