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    • Missing B-24 Bomber Discovered By Project Recover In Hansa Bay Off Papua New Guinea

      May 23, 2018

    • Genocide And War Crimes – The Worst Japanese Massacres of WWII

      May 20, 2018

    • Corsair Fleet: The Brave Civilians Who Took On German U-Boats to Protect the US Coastline

      May 20, 2018

    • Wacko: When An American Submarine Took Out a Japanese Troop Train & Much More in the Pacific in WW2

      May 20, 2018

    • Meyer Lansky – The American Jewish Mobster Who Hunted Down Nazi Sympathizers And Secured New York Harbor

      May 19, 2018

    • The Heroic US Coast Guard Who Gave His Life To Save His Shipmates During A Desperate Rescue In WW2

      May 19, 2018

    • Hit By Shrapnel Which Almost Tears Off His Arm, Pries His Own Grenade From Now Useless Hand And Throws It At The Enemy

      May 19, 2018

    • The Heroic US Coast Guard Cutter Crew Who Battled U-Boats In WWI – An Amazing Tale of Bravery

      May 18, 2018

    • First African American to Earn The Navy Cross Was a Cook Firing .50-Caliber Machine Guns at Japanese Bombers At Pearl Harbor

      May 18, 2018

    • True: A Stranded Dutch Warship In WWII Disguising Itself As An Island To Evade Japanese Bombers

      May 17, 2018

    • When 20 Canadian Prisoners Were Murdered By The Waffen SS In Normandy – The Ardenne Abbey Massacre

      May 17, 2018

    • Rudolf Hess: The British people “took care of me very well. They…put a rocking chair near the fireplace and offered me tea”

      May 17, 2018

    • The Secret German Weather Station In Canada, Discovered 38 Years After It Was Built

      May 17, 2018

    • 75 Years since the Dambusters raid

      May 17, 2018

    • The Sweetheart of the Marianas – “The Whistling Death” Vought F4U Corsair

      May 16, 2018

    • A Doctor Created A Fake Typhus Epidemic And Saved 8,000 People During WWII

      May 16, 2018

    • This True Leader Stormed Multiple Japanese Machine Guns In Burma Until Mortally Wounded

      May 16, 2018

    • Fighting in the Desert – The Battle for Sidi Bou Zid, Saint Valentine’s Day, 1943

      May 16, 2018

    • “FBI file #65-53615” – The story of the Jewish American gangster plot to kill Hitler

      May 16, 2018

    • General “The Auk” Auchinleck Squared Off With The Desert Fox In North Africa Before Being Fired by Churchill

      May 15, 2018

    • Salon Kitty: The WWII Spy Ring Based in a Brothel – Heydrich needed to hire top-notch prostitutes

      May 15, 2018

    • Allied Attacks on Japanese “Hell Ships” Unintentionally Killed Thousands of POWs in WWII

      May 15, 2018

    • With One Arm Cut Off by a Japanese Sword, Lt. George Cairns Charged Into Military History

      May 15, 2018

    • Scattered and Isolated: The Struggles of Airborne Forces on D-Day

      May 15, 2018

    • America’s First Ever Paratrooper Assault – Operation Torch

      May 14, 2018

    • Front-line Surgeon: Protected His Aid Station And Took Out 98 Enemy Soldiers Before Being Overrun

      May 14, 2018

    • Charles Rogers: Medal of Honor Recipient – Far too wounded to lead the counterattack again, Rogers continued to inspire and encourage his men in defense of the base

      May 14, 2018

    • March to Surrender: A German Operation in the Dying Days of WWII

      May 13, 2018

    • Defying Marine Corps Regulations By Racking Up 17 Convictions, And Being Declared A Deserter, Lucas Was Awarded The Medal Of Honor That Day On Iwo Jima

      May 13, 2018

    • Much More Than Code Talking – The Role of Native Americans in World War II

      May 12, 2018

    • 6 Great American Pilots of WWII’s African Campaigns

      May 12, 2018

    • The Gray Ranks – The Fighting Boy-Scouts Of The Polish WWII Resistance

      May 12, 2018

    • The Early Days Of Drones – Unmanned Aircraft From WWI & WWII

      May 12, 2018

    • During the Attack on Pearl Harbor, Canada Declared War One Day Earlier Than America

      May 12, 2018

    • After The Normandy Invasions Came The Long And Bloody Fight For France

      May 11, 2018

    • A Bridge Too Far: The Americans, And The True Story Of The 101st And 82nd In Operation Market Garden

      May 11, 2018

    • Bravery: The Amazing French Resistance and D-Day Including 21 images

      May 11, 2018

    • The Six Men Who Were Behind the July 20th Plot to Assassinate Hitler

      May 11, 2018

    • Saving Private Ryan Depicted War So Realistically That It Triggered PTSD among Veterans Who Watched It

      May 11, 2018

    • The Japanese Tried A Second Raid On Pearl Harbor – It Was Not A Success

      May 11, 2018

    • Heinz Guderian, The Father Of The Blitzkrieg – The Officer Who Defied Hitler

      May 10, 2018

    • Battle Of Savo Island Pacific – A Brutal Battle Of Naval Forces In The Pacific Campaign In 1942

      May 10, 2018

    • He Was The Last Japanese WWII Soldier To Surrender – in 1974

      May 09, 2018

    • The Japanese Diplomat Who Saved Thousands of Lives During WWII

      May 09, 2018

    • Five Successful Missions of a Waffen SS Mastermind, Otto Skorzeny

      May 09, 2018

    • How the Father of Organized Crime Won His Freedom by Helping the US Government during WW2

      May 09, 2018

    • Harold Agerholm: Medal Of Honor recipient saved 45 of his comrades to safety before he was cut down in the prime of his life by a sniper

      May 09, 2018

    • Operation Werewolf: The German Resistance An Elite Group Of Military Men Behind Enemy Lines, To Operate Secretly, Using Guerrilla Tactics

      May 08, 2018

    • The Panzer Attack on Faïd Pass – the most experienced forces in the region were about to hit the exposed French

      May 08, 2018

    • The Defense of Brest Fortress In WW2 – “We’ll Die But We’ll Not Leave The Fortress”

      May 08, 2018

    • The Incredible Role of the International Red Cross and The Red Crescent Movements during WWII

      May 08, 2018

    • Cresson Kearny – Nuclear War Survival Skills: It focused on what would happen if the US was affected by nuclear war

      May 08, 2018

    • Remembering A Forgotten Campaign: Vic Knibb’s story fighting with the British Army in Burma during WWII

      May 07, 2018

    • The Operation Torch Atlantic Coast Landings

      May 07, 2018

    • 100s Killed In Tragic ‘Friendly Fire’ Incidents During The Airborne Assault on Sicily in 1943

      May 07, 2018

    • This Reindeer Battalion of WWII Was Braver than Soviets, Tougher Than Tanks

      May 07, 2018

    • General James “Jumpin Jim” Gavin -the only general to make 4 combat jumps in the history of the US

      May 07, 2018

    • How The Soviets Caught Dozens of German Agents In A WWII Spy Game – Even Staging a Mock Battle To Keep Up Charade

      May 07, 2018

    • MoH Ace: It was common for pilots to celebrate aerial victories over the airfield with a barrel roll for each one – he did 7

      May 07, 2018

    • Victory In Europe Day To Be Commemorated With National Effort To Make Available Insights Of American Soldiers During World War II

      May 06, 2018

    • The Most Decorated Panzer Companies Of The Wehrmacht PART 2 – 13th (heavy) Company, SS-Panzer-Regiment 1

      May 06, 2018

    • Kaiten: The Japanese Suicide Submarines in WWII

      May 06, 2018

    • In World War Two, The Germans Had Big Plans – Here Are Five Which Did Not Succeed

      May 06, 2018

    • The Desperate Breakthrough at the Halbe Pocket – How A German General Neglected Hitler’s Orders to Save His Men

      May 06, 2018

    • Where Patton Awarded McAuliffe: The 101st Airborne HQ Chateau in Bastogne Revisited

      May 06, 2018

    • Douglas Jacobson: The Iwo Jima Killing Machine Who Took Out 75 Enemy Soldiers And 16 Fortified Positions in the Battle of Hill 382

      May 05, 2018

    • Operation Reservist: When The Allies Were Annihilated By Vichy French Soldiers In WW2

      May 05, 2018

    • “Nuts” – The Five Best Responses to Surrender Ultimatums in History

      May 05, 2018

    • How A Small Group Of Canadian Paratroopers Saved Denmark From Soviet Occupation

      May 05, 2018

    • The Milkman: The Story behind One of the Most Iconic Images of the Blitz

      May 05, 2018

    • 80 Years, A Tribute To The PBY Catalina – Review by Mark Barnes

      May 04, 2018

    • Heavy memories – Veteran served aboard battleship USS Washington during several WWII campaigns

      May 04, 2018

    • All Is Fair in Love and War – A WWII Veteran Recalls Making Both

      May 04, 2018

    • Was Eva Braun a Naive Bystander or Proactive Participant in Nazi Actions

      May 04, 2018

    • The Axis Occupation Of Europe Then And Now – Review by Mark Barnes

      May 03, 2018

    • Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Chicken Farmer Spy Who Tricked Hitler & Saved D-Day

      May 03, 2018

    • The Inexplicable Controversial Life of General Douglas MacArthur

      May 03, 2018

    • The Empire Of Japan & The Invasion Of The Philippines In WW2

      May 03, 2018

    • After Being Demoted to Private Nine Separate Times, This Canadian Was Awarded the Victoria Cross

      May 02, 2018

    • From Texas to Japan aboard a LST – Putting The Men Ashore To Win The War

      May 02, 2018

    • Britain’s Plan to Kill Hitler By Having a Sniper Shoot Him During His Daily Walk To The Tea House

      May 02, 2018

    • Nazis Killed Her Husband, She Bought and Drove a T-34 & Then Went On a Rampage

      May 01, 2018

    • Original D-Day footage: US Troops Storm The Beaches Of Normandy

      May 01, 2018

    • The Philadelphia Experiment: The US Navy’s Secret Invisibility Research Program

      May 01, 2018

    • Used His Last Moments In a Burning B-24 To Sink a U-Boat – Rescued German Captain Recommended Him For a VC

      May 01, 2018

    • The most decorated Marine in United States history – Chesty Puller, American Hero

      May 01, 2018

    • It Took A Media Storm To Get This WW2 Hero Gurkha VC Recipient Entry To The UK

      May 01, 2018

    • Hell Let Loose – A grand platoon-based realistic multiplayer FPS

      May 01, 2018

    • During WWII Decks of Cards Containing Hidden Maps with Escape Routes Were Distributed to POWs

      April 30, 2018

    • A Powerfully Symbolic Moment – On September 11, 1944, The First US Troops Cross The Border Into Nazi Germany

      April 30, 2018

    • Bombing Germany: The Allied Campaign 1940-44

      April 30, 2018

    • The Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk and Warhawk – American WWII Fighters

      April 30, 2018

    • Check Out The Incredible Armored Trains Of WWI & WWII

      April 30, 2018

    • The Totally Inept Nazi Saboteurs Sent To Terror Bomb the USA & Failed

      April 30, 2018

    • America’s Secret Weapon – used only once in WWII

      April 30, 2018

    • John Capes, In WWII When His Submarine Sank He Swam 170 feet To The Surface and Swam 5 miles To Shore

      April 30, 2018

    • The War Could Not Have Been Won Without This Wonderfully Simple Piece Of Design – The Humble Bailey Bridge

      April 29, 2018

    • A Ghost Story Haunting the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport in Georgia Which Dates Back to WWII

      April 29, 2018

    • La Decima: Italian Pigs, Manned Torpedoes and Kamikaze-Style Speedboat Attacks

      April 29, 2018

    • The Fearless Young Belgian Woman Who Rescued Downed Allied Pilots From Behind Enemy Lines In WW2

      April 29, 2018

    • PANERIAI – The Silent Forest Became a Site of Mass Murder & It Isn’t Easy Reading

      April 29, 2018

    • The Awesome AMX 13 – France’s Post-WWII Tank Design Features An Oscillating Turret And Is Still Used Today

      April 28, 2018

    • How Coca-Cola Became the No. 1 Favorite Soft Drink Among Both Allied and German Servicemen

      April 28, 2018

    • The Invasion of Cos: The Killing of 103 Royal Italian Army Officers

      April 28, 2018

    • PANERIAL – The Silent Forest Became a Site of Mass Murder & It Isn’t Easy Reading

      April 28, 2018

    • The Four Worst Mistakes Of The Axis Powers During WWII

      April 27, 2018

    • John Reginald Gorman – The Amazing Irish Kamikaze Tank Buster

      April 27, 2018

    • Clem Dowler Went From B-17 Ball Turret Gunner To Guerilla Fighter

      April 27, 2018

    • Lightning Strike: Killing Admiral Yamamoto and Avenging Pearl Habor

      April 26, 2018

    • Major Cain, The One Man Tank Destroyer, Awarded a VC For Actions At Arnhem

      April 26, 2018

    • The Nazi Invasion of the Balkans & Yugoslavia – A Costly Victory

      April 26, 2018

    • Not Often Spoken Of – Australia’s WWII Lend-Lease Program

      April 26, 2018

    • In 1943, Several US Airmen Went On A Suicide Mission. Two Men Were Awarded A Medal Of Honor For Separate Acts Of Heroism In One Cursed Bomber

      April 26, 2018

    • Gunner: An Australian Shepherd Dog that could hear Enemy Aircraft miles away

      April 25, 2018

    • The Nazi Temple of Doom: Wewelsburg Castle – the SS revered the castle as a place of mystical power

      April 25, 2018

    • Wolf Packs – The Battle of the Atlantic, at a given signal, the U-boats simultaneously launched their torpedoes at multiple targets & then slipped away

      April 25, 2018

    • The Honor Project: Heroes of Our Nation On Record

      April 25, 2018

    • BIG FIGURES: The 1945 Fall of Germany – 1,696 Transport Planes & 1,348 Gliders – 1,147 Fighter Planes

      April 25, 2018

    • The Incredible WW2 Story Of Intrepid Espionage Agent Bill Chong: Agent 50

      April 24, 2018

    • The Raid on Alexandria – Military History of Italy in WW2

      April 24, 2018

    • This Epic Siege In World War II Lasted For More Than 100 Days

      April 24, 2018

    • The Baking Powder Turned Explosive Device in Occupied China during WWII

      April 24, 2018

    • The Channel Dash Was Hitler Trying to Save His Ships – A Fast-Moving Naval Battle Of WWII

      April 23, 2018

    • Many of Germany’s finest tacticians & commanders of WWII served in the panzer forces. One of those men was Walther Nehring

      April 23, 2018

    • RAF: The Tragic Sinking of the SS Cap Arcona, 5,000 Concentration Camp Prisoners Killed

      April 23, 2018

    • Hermann Ramcke, German Marine Turned Paratroop General

      April 23, 2018

    • Battle of Berlin – The Soviets Hammering The Nail In the Coffin Of The Third Reich

      April 23, 2018

    • Total Hypocrisy: Awarded the Medal of Honor For Bravery Whilst His Country Locked up His Family in an Interment Camp

      April 23, 2018

    • The Day General Taylor Went On A Secret Mission To Occupied Rome in 1943

      April 22, 2018

    • Pee Wee Herman’s Father Was a Fighter Pilot Who Flew for the RAF, the US Air Force and the Haganah Air Service

      April 22, 2018

    • “Mr Immortal” Jacklyn H. Lucas was Awarded the MoH age 17 – Used His Body To Shield His Squad From Two Grenades

      April 22, 2018

    • The Battle of Midway: Turning the Tide in the Pacific

      April 22, 2018

    • When A British Destroyer Rammed a German Cruiser In World War Two

      April 22, 2018

    • Transportation equipment reactivated or re-purposed for the WW2 Homefront

      April 22, 2018

    • Controversial: These Household Names Worked With The Third Reich During WWII

      April 22, 2018

    • Post Scriptum – An EPIC WW2 simulation game – Take your part in the Operation Market Garden!

      April 22, 2018

    • Operation Halyard: An Airlift Operation That Saved 417 Allied Airmen In The Balkans

      April 21, 2018

    • A Desperate Fight to the Death: RMS Carmania Vs. SMS Cap Trafalgar 1914

      April 21, 2018

    • Six Times Hitler Refused to Face the Reality of his Military Situation

      April 21, 2018

    • Joseph Rochefort, American Code-Breaker, Predicted The Second Japanese Attack On The US In WWII

      April 21, 2018

    • Among all the Plots to Kill Hitler, this is the Craziest

      April 21, 2018

    • From The Tank Museum: New Chapter In Story Of Tiger 131: Part 4 – 48 Royal Tank Regiment At Point 174

      April 21, 2018

    • Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz – His Leadership During WWII Won The War in the Pacific

      April 21, 2018

    • The U.S. Army’s all Mexican-American Infantry Unit – Little-Known Heroes of the Italian Campaign of WWII

      April 21, 2018

    • José Arturo Castellanos Contreras: The Latino Schindler

      April 20, 2018

    • Here are some of the best U-Boat aces of WWII

      April 20, 2018

    • General Hyazinth von Strachwitz, The Panzer Count

      April 20, 2018

    • Paratroop Commander – Nazi General Kurt Student Fought In Both World Wars And Became One Of The Greatest Aerial Innovators Of WWII

      April 20, 2018

    • Blitzkrieg, Bombs, and Blunders: “Smiling Albert” Kesselring in World War II

      April 20, 2018

    • Manned Torpedoes and Massive Ships – The Alexandria Raid Of WW2

      April 20, 2018

    • The Allied Sinking of the Lisbon Maru Resulted In the Deaths of Over 800 British and Canadian Prisoners of War

      April 20, 2018

    • Yamashita’s Gold: More than 70 Years of Treasure Hunting and a Controversial Lawsuit Involving the Former President of the Philippines

      April 20, 2018

    • World War Two’s Long Struggle for New Guinea

      April 19, 2018

    • The Fighting Filipinos: Give me ten thousand Filipinos and I shall conquer the world – MacArthur

      April 19, 2018

    • When The Allies Attacked Oran And Were Annihilated By Vichy French Soldiers

      April 19, 2018

    • From The Tank Museum: New Chapter In Story Of Tiger 131: 3 – Major Lidderdale’s Recovery

      April 19, 2018

    • Hans Joachim Marseille, Anti Nazi & One Of The Most Amazing Fighter Pilots Of WWII

      April 18, 2018

    • The Invasion of Poland in the Opening Stages of World War Two

      April 18, 2018

    • Putten: The Wehrmacht Carted Off 601 Dutch Men To Concentration Camps, Only 48 Returned

      April 17, 2018

    • The Warsaw Uprising: The Heroic Final Stand of the Polish Home Army and the Destruction of Warsaw

      April 17, 2018

    • General Rommel And The Afrika Korps In Stunning Pictures

      April 17, 2018

    • Albert Göring, Despised the Nazi Regime – Saved Countless Jews & Dissidents, Unlike His Brother

      April 17, 2018

    • From The Tank Museum: New Chapter In Story Of Tiger 131: Part 1 and 2

      April 17, 2018

    • The Pacific Island Hopping Strategy: Taking Eniwetok Atoll

      April 17, 2018

    • U-570 – The Only Ship To Be Captured By An Aircraft

      April 17, 2018

    • From The Tank Museum: North Africa Veteran Reg Hunt Remembers

      April 17, 2018

    • From The Tank Museum: Prokhorovka And The Myth Of The Largest Tank Battle

      April 16, 2018

    • Banzai Charges From the Tunnels During The 1945 Battle of Corregidor Island

      April 16, 2018

    • Crazy French Count Blew Up German Factory With Baguettes Filled With Explosives

      April 16, 2018

    • The 1941 Siege of Tobruk, Birth Of The Rats of Tobruk

      April 16, 2018

    • MoH: 8 German soldiers moved in to try to capture one wounded Edward Carter – It Didn’t End Too Well

      April 16, 2018

    • With 8 Silver Stars and 2 Distinguished Service Crosses, General John Corley Was Born To Lead

      April 16, 2018

    • British Army’s Greatest Humiliation – The Fall of Singapore

      April 16, 2018

    • VC: A Gurkha Calmly Stood Up In Open Sight & Killed A Sniper Pinning Down His Company Before Going On To Clear 5 Enemy Bunkers, Single-Handedly, All Whilst Under Heavy Fire

      April 15, 2018

    • Hero Helped Save His Burning B-17 By Urinating On The Fire & Drove Off Waves of German Fighters

      April 15, 2018

    • VC Who Turned The Tide At The Battle Of Isurava – The Japanese Were Caught Off Guard As The Fierce Australian Juggernaut Fired At Them From His Hip

      April 15, 2018

    • The Story of Big Week: The Plan to Cripple the Luftwaffe, Some Say it Was a Waste of Men & Machines

      April 15, 2018

    • Bomber Dog: Antis the dog that went on bombing missions to Germany even earned a medal

      April 15, 2018

    • Jumped Onto Another Bunker With His Flamethrower, Stuck The Nozzle Into Air Vent & Pulled The Trigger. There Were No Survivors

      April 15, 2018

    • Merritt Edson: The Valiant Colonel Who Led His 800 Men to Victory Against 2,500 Japanese Soldiers

      April 15, 2018

    • From The Tank Museum: The Mystery Of The Tiger Recovery Vehicle

      April 15, 2018

    • This Was The First Major Battle Between US And German Forces In WW2 – Kasserine Pass 1943

      April 15, 2018

    • The Little Known Battles of Attu And Kiska: Retaking The Only US Soil Lost During WWII

      April 14, 2018

    • Moh & NFL Legend: “I Saw Him Throw Approximately 10 To 12 Grenades, With German Automatic Fire And Grenades Coming Back All The Time”

      April 14, 2018

    • MI9: The Secret British Organization Set Up in WWII to Help Prisoners Of War Escape

      April 14, 2018

    • The Oldest Commando Of WWII – 73 Year Old Walter Cowan Of Course, Oh, He Was Also In WWI

      April 14, 2018

    • The Careers of These Soldiers Were Transformed by the Arrival of Tanks

      April 14, 2018

    • Fight on – the Story of an Australian Sailor Who Went down with the Ship While Firing His AA Gun from Underwater

      April 14, 2018

    • Like a Scene From the Great Escape: If PoWs Escaped They Had To Learn Fast To Blend In With The Locals

      April 14, 2018

    • The de Havilland Mosquito is a Classic WWII Plane – They Called it the “Wooden Wonder”

      April 14, 2018

    • From The Tank Museum: When The Germans Desperately Needed To Counter The T-34, This Was Their Design

      April 14, 2018

    • Ira Hayes – Iwo Jima Flag Raiser & Very Reluctant Hero

      April 14, 2018

    • Hitler’s Fortified Siegfried Line Was Massive And Included 22,000 Bunkers And Pillboxes

      April 13, 2018

    • Georg Gartner: A German Soldier who lived in the US for 40 years under a false identity after he escaped from a POW camp

      April 13, 2018

    • The Cutting Edge Heinkel He162 Salamander – Another fascinating German Jet Fighter Concept

      April 13, 2018

    • Montgomery Was Shot Twice During WWI – And Other Things We Might Not Have Known About Him

      April 13, 2018

    • The Wacko Story of Jumpin’ Joe Beyrle – The US Paratrooper who Served in a Soviet Tank Battalion a Hero of Two Nations

      April 13, 2018

    • White Rose: The German Anti-Nazi Activists Who Were Beheaded In 1943

      April 13, 2018

    • Started out as a Biplane: The Grumman F4F Wildcat One Of The Most Valuable American Fighter Planes Of WW2

      April 13, 2018

    • Code Name: Cicero, Elyesa Bazna was a ruthless WWII spy – His opportunity to make it rich evaporated, and he went back to working at odd jobs

      April 12, 2018

    • The Vultee Vengeance – The Allied WWII Dive Bomber Developed To Rival The German Stuka

      April 12, 2018

    • We Tend to Forget That There Was a SECOND Raid On Pearl Harbor – Operation K

      April 12, 2018

    • These 4 Massive Nazi-Built Bunkers Near Calais Are Both Frightening & Stunning

      April 12, 2018

    • The Ground-Breaking Gloster Meteor – The Only Allied Jet Which Took Part Combat in World War Two

      April 12, 2018

    • The Commando Raids On The Norwegian Coast That Tied Up 30,000 German Soldiers

      April 12, 2018

    • From The Tank Museum: German Tanks At Kursk

      April 12, 2018

    • Catch Me if You Can: Franz Von Werra The Only German POW to Escape From Canada and Get Back Into the Fight

      April 11, 2018

    • How the US Navy Trained its Pilots in WWII – the Bar for Entry was High

      April 11, 2018

    • Tough Reading – A Nightmarish Place: The Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp

      April 11, 2018

    • From The Tank Museum: Joe Ekins – One of the Most Famous WWII British Tank Gunners

      April 11, 2018

    • The Russian KV Tank and Its Crew That Stopped The German Advance for a Full Day

      April 11, 2018

    • He’s Called The Ghost, Has The Same Medal Count As Audie Murphy, And Is Virtually Unknown

      April 10, 2018

    • Two Years Before Filming It’s a Wonderful Life, Jimmy Stewart was Bombing the Daylights Out of Nazi Germany

      April 10, 2018

    • Korean Soldier Fought in Pacific, Eastern Front, and D-Day for Axis and Allies and 3 Separate Countries

      April 10, 2018

    • The Amazing SOE Operation To Kidnap General Heinrich Kreipe From Crete

      April 10, 2018

    • When An American Submarine Took Out a Japanese Troop Train and Much More in the Pacific in WW2

      April 10, 2018

    • Learning the Luftwaffe’s Secrets: How Intelligence Gathering Shaped the Battle of Britain

      April 10, 2018

    • Blazing trails – Daughter of Foreign Service Officer served in WAC in WWII, and later in CIA

      April 10, 2018

    • The Unlucky Soviet Nuclear Submarine K-19, Nicknamed “Hiroshima”

      April 10, 2018

    • The Night Fighter Ace Who Shot Down 7 Lancaster Bombers In 19 Minutes

      April 10, 2018

    • Hanns Scharff – Nazi Germany’s POW “Master Interrogator” Who Used Kindness Not Brutality

      April 09, 2018

    • Japanese Schindler Helped 5,580 Jews Escape The Holocaust Ended Up Selling Lightbulbs To Survive

      April 09, 2018

    • In WW2, This USAAF pilot defected, he flew his P-38 to Milan & joined the SS

      April 09, 2018

    • The US Special Forces Major Who Fought in the SS

      April 09, 2018

    • Iron Cross Recipients – German Soldiers In World War Two

      April 09, 2018

    • When He Was Awarded the Medal of Honor For Bravery, The US Locked His Japanese Parents Up In An Internment Camp

      April 09, 2018

    • US 33rd Fighter Group – The Exhausting Fight for the Air Over Tunisia

      April 08, 2018

    • Operations Anger and Cannonshot, Missions Of Liberation In The Netherlands

      April 08, 2018

    • From The Tank Museum: Capturing The Monstrous Jagdtiger

      April 08, 2018

    • Robert Cole, Hero Of The Carentan Bayonet Charge, Tragically Killed Two Weeks Before Being Awarded The Medal of Honor

      April 08, 2018

    • The Bold But Unsuccessful Mission of 1st Commando at Bizerte in World War Two

      April 08, 2018

    • Bravery, Discipline, and Very Long Journeys – A Marine’s Life on Board a WWII US Warship

      April 08, 2018

    • Paul Robinett, Legendary American Tank Commander of World War Two

      April 08, 2018

    • On Fire This Heroic Airman Picked Up A Burning 1,100° Phosphorus Bomb To Save His Crew Certain Death

      April 07, 2018

    • MoH: Private Towle of the 82nd Airborne Stopped a German Armored Counter Attack in Holland with a Bazooka

      April 07, 2018

    • 21-Year-Old Bomber Pilot Who Died Saving His Crew, Running on Just One Engine He Stayed With the Bomber

      April 07, 2018

    • From The Tank Museum: Crouching Tiger & the Confrontation with a Comet

      April 07, 2018

    • Battle For North Africa – The Ships, Planes, and Tanks of Operation Torch

      April 07, 2018

    • From The Tank Museum: The Tiger combat debut took place in August 1942 on the Eastern Front. It was not a success, with three of the four breaking down.

      April 07, 2018

    • Stille Hilfe: The organisation committed to supporting SS members facing punishment for their crimes

      April 07, 2018

    • From The Tank Museum: The Legend Of The Tiger Tank

      April 06, 2018

    • Sad – Operation Tractable: When 150 Allied Soldiers Were Bombed By Their Own Planes

      April 06, 2018

    • Overrated Or The Only Man For The Job – The Meteoric Rise Of General Dwight D. Eisenhower

      April 06, 2018

    • Chouigui Pass: The First US v German Tank Clash of WWII

      April 06, 2018

    • The Luftwaffe Self Destruct Mission: Operation Bodenplatte – January 1st 1945

      April 06, 2018

    • The Amazing Harry Errington: The Only London Fireman to Earn a George Cross for Service in the Blitz

      April 06, 2018

    • Taking the War to the Skies – Some of the Best Fighter Planes of the War

      April 06, 2018

    • The Desperate Measures Hitler Took to Avoid Losing WWII

      April 05, 2018

    • The Doolittle Raid – American Planes Take Revenge For Pearl Harbor

      April 05, 2018

    • Piggyback Hero – by Ralph Kinney Bennett

      April 05, 2018

    • Fleet Admiral Leahy, Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief Was Fiercely Opposed to Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Japan

      April 05, 2018

    • The Rise Of The Night-Fighters – Devastating Aircraft in Two World Wars

      April 05, 2018

    • From The Tank Museum: First Tiger I Knocked Out By The British

      April 05, 2018

    • Two Invasions of Belgium By Germany in Two World Wars: 1914 and 1940

      April 05, 2018

    • The Crew Of The B-24 Liberator “Star Valley” – Downed Behind Enemy Lines

      April 05, 2018

    • With Every Other Senior Officer Dead, the Battle Control Officer of the USS San Francisco Waded through Waist Deep Water to Save the Ship

      April 05, 2018

    • Japanese-American Soldiers, The Nisei: The Purple Heart Battalion

      April 04, 2018

    • One Secret Agent Who Helped Pave the Way for D-Day

      April 04, 2018

    • The One-Armed Warrior Who Was Awarded The Victoria Cross

      April 04, 2018

    • Saving Sara Matuson: How 10 POWs Risked Their Lives to Save One Woman

      April 04, 2018

    • How Britain was Unprepared for World War Two

      April 04, 2018

    • Second World War Naval Reservist Was Awarded the VC After Surviving 31 Air Attacks in 4 Days

      April 04, 2018

    • “That’s how they did things” – Veteran shares story of WWII Navy service in the Pacific

      April 04, 2018

    • The First US Soldier to Receive the Medal of Honor in WW2 Volunteered for the Fight that Killed Him

      April 04, 2018

    • Rudolf von Ribbentrop Wounded Five Times & Awarded Germany’s Highest Award in WWII

      April 03, 2018

    • The Myths Of The Montana Class Battleships

      April 03, 2018

    • Field Marshal Erich von Manstein – German Commander in WW2

      April 03, 2018

    • The Horten 229 V3 “Flying Wing” – Amazing Image Collection

      April 03, 2018

    • Crazy Impractical German Inventions of WW2

      April 03, 2018

    • Early in WW2 the British received a dossier of German military secrets & why Britain almost ignored it

      April 03, 2018

    • “I did my bit” – Veteran served as pilot with Army Air Corps during World War II

      April 03, 2018

    • Six Special Forces “A-Teams,” Tasked with Nuking the Soviet Union

      April 03, 2018

    • Japanese Battleship Musashi – Part 2: The Rediscovery

      April 02, 2018

    • Unselfish Service – Missouri State Highway Patrolman died in Japanese POW camp in WWII

      April 02, 2018

    • Hans von Luck: The Gentlemanly Nazi Commander

      April 02, 2018

    • German War Children, civilian survival in WWII – There was hardly any food, in the last year pretty much none

      April 02, 2018

    • These High-Flying Pilots Were Top German Luftwaffe Aces Of WWII

      April 02, 2018

    • The Myths And Legends Surrounding The Nazi Party

      April 02, 2018

    • Becoming a Nazi as an agent of Christ. He claimed he joined the Nazi regime to save Jews

      April 02, 2018

    • The Jewish Avengers: A Nazi’s Worst Nightmare, They Wanted to Poison 60,000 Prisoners After WWII

      April 01, 2018

    • How A Japanese Sub Sank Three Ships With One Salvo In WW2

      April 01, 2018

    • Four British Intelligence Agents of WWII & Their Very Different Civilian Lives

      April 01, 2018

    • Black Sheep One: American WW2 Marine Fighter Ace With 26 Kills – Gregory “Pappy” Boyington

      April 01, 2018

    • Amazing Footage of The Heavy German Tiger Tank – Feared On The Battlefields of WW2

      April 01, 2018

    • Take A Look inside a U-boat, 42 Stunning Images That Show Every Detail

      April 01, 2018

    • The Mighty Japanese Battleship Musashi – The Launch that Flooded Nagasaki

      March 31, 2018

    • Audie Murphy, Highly Decorated US Soldier Who Went On To Have Successful Hollywood Career

      March 31, 2018

    • Turning Point For The Second World War – The Battle of Britain – Part 1

      March 31, 2018

    • George H. Bush Narrowly Escaped Being Executed & Eaten By The Japanese in WWII

      March 31, 2018

    • Faces of Evil: Female Concentration Camp Guards

      March 31, 2018

    • Eight Essential Facts – The WW2 Bombing That Flattened The Heart Of Rotterdam

      March 30, 2018

    • Directed tank fire as the battle raged around him – tragically killed over breakfast when a stray German mortar landed at his feet

      March 30, 2018

    • An Amazing/Crazy Pilot: US Hercules Plane Lands On & Takes Off From An Aircraft Carrier

      March 30, 2018

    • The Great Escape: How a Rolex Watched Helped Brit POWs & How Rolex Found a New Market – the USA

      March 30, 2018

    • Horror Of The Death Railway, Japan’s Project For WW2 Prisoners Of War

      March 29, 2018

    • The End of Erwin Rommel as Told by His Son

      March 29, 2018

    • Franklin D. Roosevelt, The People’s President – A Strong Leader For A Turbulent Time

      March 29, 2018

    • Dad’s WWII Story – When the invasion happened, we waited our turn & were unloaded partly at Omaha Beach’s temporary docks & onto ducks

      March 29, 2018

    • The True Story Of A Famous WWII Photograph

      March 29, 2018

    • WWII Jeep Facts Every Jeep Owner Should Know

      March 29, 2018

    • Four Valiant Stands From Both World Wars: These Men Kept Up The Fight When All Hope Was Lost

      March 29, 2018

    • This Fighter Pilot Saved a Bomber Squadron From German Fighter Attacks For over Half an Hour – Alone

      March 29, 2018

    • I didn’t want him to leave – Local veteran killed in action while serving as infantry officer in Korean War

      March 29, 2018

    • 10 Facts – Reinhard Heydrich – The Architect Of The Holocaust Who Hitler Called “The Man With The Iron Heart”

      March 28, 2018

    • To Make Life Easier For The People Of Occupied Crete, The Allies Kidnapped The Nazi Commander

      March 28, 2018

    • Amazing Story Of Captain Charles Upham, The Only Combat Soldier To Be Awarded The Victoria Cross Twice

      March 28, 2018

    • A TV interview with SS Officer Heinz Linge, the last person to see Adolf Hilter alive & the one who burned his body

      March 28, 2018

    • Frankly, I enjoyed the war. Totally crazy story of Victoria Cross hero who tore off his own fingers, lost an eye, was shot in the head & still went back for more

      March 28, 2018

    • The Curious Tale of an Extremely Jinxed Ship – The USS William D. Porter (DD-579)

      March 28, 2018

    • Admiral Yamamoto, The Pearl Harbor Planner Who Believed Japan Would Lose

      March 28, 2018

    • The British and Canadian Landings on D-Day – Gold, Sword, Juno

      March 28, 2018

    • The Employees of the Danzig Post Office Fought the Germans For 15 Hours During the Invasion of Poland Before They Were Captured

      March 27, 2018

    • Trinity Site, Where the First Atomic Bomb Was Detonated – A Place that Changed the World

      March 27, 2018

    • Into the Jaws of Death: The Greatest Raid of WWII, The St Nazaire Raid

      March 27, 2018

    • A Peaceful Invasion – The Allied Occupation Of Iceland During World War Two

      March 27, 2018

    • The Charge of The Polish Cavalry Against German Tanks in 1939 – How It Was Turned Into A Modern Myth

      March 27, 2018

    • The Battles of El Alamein – The Beginning Of The End Of Rommel’s Africa Corps

      March 27, 2018

    • The Battle of Britain – One of the Most Important Aerial Campaigns in History

      March 26, 2018

    • Beachcomber, the Canadian War Pigeon Awarded A Medal After the Dieppe Raid

      March 26, 2018

    • Stalingrad: For 59 Days 30 Soviet Soldiers Were Under Siege In Pavlov’s House, They Never Surrendered

      March 26, 2018

    • WW2 German Ace Stumbled Across a Crippled B-17 and Escorted It Home

      March 26, 2018

    • After The USS Indianapolis Was Sunk, The Sailors Had To Survive The Worst Shark Attack in History

      March 25, 2018

    • Church of Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard’s War Against the Sea… And Mexico

      March 25, 2018

    • Great British Code Breakers of the First World War

      March 25, 2018

    • Australia’s Pearl Harbor – The Bombing of Darwin By Hundreds of Japanse Aircraft

      March 25, 2018

    • A U.S. General’s Secret Mission To Occupied Rome To Discuss The Italian Surrender

      March 25, 2018

    • Behind Enemy Lines – The 82nd and 101st Airborne On D-Day

      March 25, 2018

    • In 1937, A Toilet Break Led to War Between China and Japan

      March 25, 2018

    • U-570 In the WW2 Battle of the Atlantic – The Only Submarine To Ever Be Captured By An Aircraft

      March 24, 2018

    • The Tragic Tale of Hajime Fujii – A Kamikaze Fighter Who Crashed Into And Sunk The USS Drexler

      March 24, 2018

    • Dodging five, point-blank rounds from a tank, Charles Coolidge awarded the Medal of Honor

      March 24, 2018

    • This Gigantic Submarine Factory Couldn’t Even Be Destroyed By The 22,000 lb Grand Slam Bomb

      March 24, 2018

    • This Man Sent a Threatening Letter to Hitler in 1941 – He Died in a Concentration Camp

      March 24, 2018

    • Not Something Everyone Knows BUT Roald Dahl The Children’s Book Author Was Also an RAF Fighter Ace

      March 23, 2018

    • Image Heavy: Facts & Pictures – Bloody Battle for Remagen Bridge & the tunnel ended up as a mushroom farm

      March 23, 2018

    • The Battle of Tarawa: 76 Hours of Hell – 5,700 Dead for Twelve Square Miles

      March 23, 2018

    • Orde Wingate: Daring, Eccentric, and Unconventional, a Fascinating Fighter of WWII

      March 23, 2018

    • Review Complete of Final Crew Accounting in the Loss of USS Indianapolis (CA 35) From Naval History and Heritage Command Communication and Outreach Division

      March 23, 2018

    • USS Samuel B. Roberts – “Destroyer Escort That Fought Like a Battleship” in the Battle of Leyte Gulf

      March 23, 2018

    • Image Heavy. Beutepanzer, How Germany Relied on Captured Military Vehicles

      March 22, 2018

    • Jesse Owens & the Berlin Olympics – In 1951, Owens returned to Berlin & met Long’s surviving son – the ten-year-old Kai-Heinrich

      March 22, 2018

    • Nine Essential Places In France For War History Enthusiasts To Visit

      March 22, 2018

    • Wounded & Outnumbered, This WW2 Hero Defended His Position & Was Awarded the VC

      March 22, 2018

    • British Intelligence – Transforming Aerial Reconnaissance in WWII

      March 22, 2018

    • Restoring Honor – The Americans Take Hill 609 in WW2 Tunisia

      March 21, 2018

    • Jimmy Doolittle Led The First Mission To Bomb Japan – Against All Odds

      March 21, 2018

    • Was It Really A War Crime – Thousands of Germans Died in American POW Camps In 1945

      March 21, 2018

    • Nancy Wake, in WWII – Freedom Fighter, Allied Agent and The Gestapo’s Most Wanted

      March 21, 2018

    • How Extraterrestrials Got Japanese-Americans Interned in 1942

      March 20, 2018

    • As A Bitter Joke, Adolf Hitler Was Nominated For The Nobel Peace Prize in 1939

      March 20, 2018

    • The WW2 Tests That Produced Napalm – The United States’ Mock WWII German & Japanese Villages

      March 20, 2018

    • William Hitler, Nephew of Adolf, Joined the US Navy to Fight The Nazis in WW2

      March 20, 2018

    • Sinking the Tirpitz, Sister to the Bismarck and the Heaviest European Battleship Ever

      March 20, 2018

    • The Day Japan Lost Her Airforce – “Why, hell, it was just like an old-time turkey shoot down home”

      March 20, 2018

    • The Ghost Army: Every move they made was top secret, their story was hushed up for decades after the war

      March 20, 2018

    • Nine Reasons Why The Allies ‘Won’ The Battle of Britain or was it Germany lost it

      March 20, 2018

    • Beautiful Story: When Cadets Realized Their Janitor Was Medal Of Honor War Hero

      March 20, 2018

    • This American fighter pilot claimed 16 kills across two wars – and was also a college football star

      March 19, 2018

    • The Battle of Taranto In 1940 May Have Influenced Japanese Tactics At Pearl Harbor

      March 19, 2018

    • The Final Attempts On Hitler’s Life, Before He Killed Himself

      March 19, 2018

    • The LAST B-24 built at Douglas in Tulsa – The Tulsamerican was found in the Ocean nearly 70 years after Fatal Crash

      March 19, 2018

    • Tony Bennett: A WWII Veteran participated in the Liberation of a German Death Camp and was Demoted for Dining with a Black Friend

      March 19, 2018

    • Dawn of the Wolf Pack: October 18, 1940 – Germany Targets Allied Supply Routes in WWII

      March 19, 2018

    • The Polish Thermopylae: 800 vs 42,000 at Wizna, 1939

      March 18, 2018

    • Fearless Escapes Over (And Under) The Berlin Wall

      March 18, 2018

    • Operation Mincemeat – How the Allies Tricked Hitler to open the gates of Sicily

      March 18, 2018

    • Charity Edna Adams – the Highest Ranking African-American Woman During WWII

      March 18, 2018

    • Hans-Ulrich Rudel – The Flying Tank Buster Who Flew More Than 2,000 Missions And Killed Over 500 Tanks

      March 18, 2018

    • Horrifying, Tragic, Inspirational – How the Nazis Destroyed Lidice and the World Preserved its Memory

      March 18, 2018

    • The Rogue British Officer Who Broke All the Rules, Founded the SAS, and was Nicknamed by the Germans, “The Phantom Major”

      March 18, 2018

    • How 500 Canadian Parachutists Helped Secure Victory On D-Day

      March 17, 2018

    • Japan Tried To Set The U.S. West Coast Ablaze in WWII- It Nearly Worked

      March 17, 2018

    • Giorgio Perlasca – The Heroic Italian Businessman Who Saved Thousands Of Jewish People By Posing As A Diplomat

      March 16, 2018

    • The Invasion of Ethiopia – Mussolini’s Crazy Plan For Restoration of the Roman Empire

      March 16, 2018

    • The Murky Fate Of Gestapo Chief And Nazi War Criminal Heinrich Müller

      March 16, 2018

    • Meet Chief Dog Sinbad, The Cheerful and Brave Coast Guard Mascot of WW2

      March 15, 2018

    • Michael Wittmann, the Deadly German Panzer Ace Of WWII

      March 15, 2018

    • The WW2 French Resistance Leader Who Fooled the Gestapo to Save her Husband’s Life

      March 15, 2018

    • Camp X – The Allies’ Secret Training School for World War II Spies and Elite Agents

      March 15, 2018

    • The Maginot Line – Book Review by Mark Barnes

      March 15, 2018

    • The Abraham Lincoln Brigade – US Citizens Who Fought Against Fascism in Spain

      March 15, 2018

    • Making History – The Ship’s Cook Who Grabbed A .50 Cal To Shoot Down Enemy Planes At Pearl Harbor

      March 14, 2018

    • Saint Nazaire The Best Raid of WW2: Massive Intel, Courage, Sacrifice and Big Explosions

      March 14, 2018

    • The Bravery Of This Japanese-American Soldier On His First Day Fighting In WW2 Is Astounding

      March 14, 2018

    • Stories Of Humanity And Compassion From Throughout The Second World War

      March 14, 2018

    • Biggest Amphibious Invasions in Modern History

      March 14, 2018

    • Fantastic New Titles From Haynes Publishing – Review by Mark Barnes

      March 14, 2018

    • A Soldier’s Noble Quest to Return a War Medal to its Rightful Owner

      March 14, 2018

    • The Soviet Tank that missed WWII

      March 13, 2018

    • The “Forgotten Blitz” In WW2 That Left Hundreds Dead And Thousands Homeless

      March 13, 2018

    • The Man Who Saved Paris: Roger West’s Ride 1914 – Review by Mark Barnes

      March 13, 2018

    • VC: Despite Being Shot And With His Plane On Fire, This Pilot Refused To Bail Out Without Taking Down A German Fighter

      March 13, 2018

    • These Germans Stationed Near The North Pole Were The Last To Surrender, In September 1945

      March 13, 2018

    • Heinze And Reinhard Heydrich – A Tale Of Two Brothers Who Went Different Ways In WW2

      March 12, 2018

    • The German Officer Who Sacrificed His Life In A Minefield To Save An American Soldier

      March 12, 2018

    • The Death Match – Legendary Game of Death of Kiev vs Germany

      March 12, 2018

    • A Selection Of Armor Related Books To Consider – Review by Mark Barnes

      March 12, 2018

    • These Four Massive Nazi-Built Bunkers Near Calais Are Both Frightening and Stunning

      March 11, 2018

    • Carved From The Countryside – Built in WWII, Camp Crowder, Missouri was once a booming U.S. Army post

      March 11, 2018

    • Bringing Home The 8 Million Boys After WWII; Operation Magic Carpet

      March 11, 2018

    • The Supermarine Spitfire: From WWII’s Greatest Battles All the Way to the Silver Screen

      March 10, 2018

    • Reinhard Heydrich – A Dark Figure In An Even Darker Period Of Wartime History

      March 10, 2018

    • Two Amazing Stories From USCGC Escanaba – Heroism And Heartbreak In The North Atlantic, 1943

      March 10, 2018

    • SMS Bodrog – The Once-Mighty Warship Which Fired The First Shots Of WWI

      March 10, 2018

    • MoH: Despite Serious Wounds, Paul Bolden Took Out 35 German SS Troops In The Bulge

      March 10, 2018

    • Harrowing Stories From Iwo Jima: One Man’s Life Onboard A Landing Ship Tank In 1945

      March 10, 2018

    • Four World War II Books to consider – Review by Mark Barnes

      March 10, 2018

    • The Lasting Effects Of The Atomic Bombing Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki

      March 10, 2018

    • A Difficult Time For The United States – US Rationing of Goods During WWII

      March 09, 2018

    • Surviving A Kamikaze Attack: A Story From USS Callaway During The War In The Pacific

      March 09, 2018

    • A WW2 US Coast Guard Hero – Securing the Ports Which Were Essential To D-Day’s Success

      March 09, 2018

    • A Bridge Too Far: The True Story Behind XXX Corps In Operation Market Garden

      March 09, 2018

    • The Battle of Stalingrad: The Battle that Broke Hitler

      March 09, 2018

    • Battle of Taranto – A Precursor to Pearl Harbor

      March 09, 2018

    • Meet General George Kenney, Master Aviator and American War Hero

      March 09, 2018

    • In WW2 This Amazing Woman Fought Japanese In The Philippines, Aided The Resistance, And Resisted Interrogation

      March 09, 2018

    • WWII Pilot & Commander Nancy Harkness Love: A Symbol of Pride, Passion and Perseverance

      March 09, 2018

    • VE-Day May Have Officially Ended The War, But It Did Not End All Battles In Europe

      March 09, 2018

    • Watch the WW2 Battle of the Coral Sea – In Color

      March 09, 2018

    • We Can Do It – The Story Of Rosie the Riveter

      March 08, 2018

    • The WW2 Battle of France – A Disaster for the Allies in World War Two

      March 08, 2018

    • A plane found 38 feet under the ice: A Daring, High-Risk Rescue Attempt In Greenland In 1942 Has Come To Light Again

      March 08, 2018

    • This Hellish Campaign Has Been Largely Forgotten: The Aleutian Islands During World War II

      March 08, 2018

    • The Los Angeles WWII Zoot Suit Racial Attacks

      March 08, 2018

    • Operation Tiger – Forgotten WWII Exercise That Turned Into A Catastrophe

      March 08, 2018

    • The Legendary Paratrooper: The Amazing Story of Ted Bachenheimer

      March 07, 2018

    • The Axis Powers: How A Handful Of Individuals Changed The World

      March 07, 2018

    • Although Steel Ruled The Waves, Wooden Boats Still Found A Place In WWII

      March 07, 2018

    • The Battle of Ortona – When 2,600 Canadian Men Were Sacrificed for a General’s Pride

      March 07, 2018

    • The Amazing Story Of James Crotty, Who Single Handedly Won The Coast Guard A Battle Streamer

      March 07, 2018

    • A Kiwi Victory: Minesweepers Moa and Kiwi Bag a Japanese Sub By Repeatedly Ramming It

      March 06, 2018

    • The Evacuation of Dunkirk, The Evacuation That Kept Britain’s Hopes Of Victory Alive

      March 06, 2018

    • Battle of Monte Cassino – Breaking through German Defense into Rome

      March 06, 2018

    • A U-Boat captain and a US Coast Guard Cutter’s captain meet at the end of WWII

      March 06, 2018

    • Five Critical Events Leading To The Surrender of Axis Forces in Tunisia During WWII

      March 06, 2018

    • The Nazi Invasion of the Balkans And Yugoslavia – A Costly Victory

      March 05, 2018

    • John D. Bulkeley, Commander of the USS Endicott – A daring attack in WWII

      March 05, 2018

    • Hideki Tojo – Japanese WWII Prime Minister – Controversial To This Day

      March 05, 2018

    • The American landings at Utah Beach were among the easiest – 5 very different experiences: The D-Day beaches

      March 05, 2018

    • FUSAG: Patton’s D-Day Army That Didn’t Exist

      March 05, 2018

    • After the Nuremberg Trials, Spandau Prison Was Dedicated To Holding 7 Nazi War Criminals

      March 05, 2018

    • WWII Jeep in a Crate for $50 – fact or a tall story

      March 05, 2018

    • The History of World War Two is Well-Known – But Some Details Are Often Forgotten

      March 04, 2018

    • The United States Marine Corps At The Battle of Guadalcanal

      March 04, 2018

    • American World War II Medal Of Honor Recipient Became Commandant Of The Marine Corps

      March 04, 2018

    • Famous Writers that Participated in the Spanish Civil War

      March 04, 2018

    • MoH: Private Towle of the 82nd Airborne Stopped a German Armored Counterattack in Holland with a Bazooka

      March 04, 2018

    • Killed When Crash Landing His Damaged Bomber, Pilot Cyril Barton Managed To Save His Entire Crew

      March 04, 2018

    • The Massive D-Day Landings – Normandy, June 1944

      March 04, 2018

    • Operation Sealion: Hitler’s Doomed Plan to Invade Britain

      March 04, 2018

    • With His Brother KIA On Crete, This Sniper Stalked And Killed 33 German Snipers

      March 04, 2018

    • VC: Despite 72 Individual Wounds, RAF Pilot John Cruickshank Sank A U-Boat with Depth Charges

      March 04, 2018

    • Facts You Didn’t Know About German Invasion of the Soviet Union

      March 03, 2018

    • This German Paratrooper Held An Impressive Record, And May Have Been Part Of The Plot To Assassinate Hitler

      March 03, 2018

    • Smart, Beautiful and Deadly Russian Sniper Roza Shanina Made 54 Confirmed Kills in Less than a Year

      March 03, 2018

    • The Cactus Air Force: How The Guadalcanal Shoestring Flyers Took On Japanese Zeros – And Won

      March 03, 2018

    • Otto Rahn, secretly anti-Nazi, Joined The SS In Search For The Holy Grail and Became The Inspiration For Indiana Jones

      March 03, 2018

    • John D. Bulkeley’s Daring Evacuation of General Douglas MacArthur on a 77′ PT Boat

      March 03, 2018

    • Shot Down Over France, Chuck Yeager Evaded Capture for 4 Months and then Flew Into History at the Speed of Sound

      March 02, 2018

    • Queen Elizabeth II, The War Years

      March 02, 2018

    • Bringing Home The 8 Million After WWII; Operation Magic Carpet

      March 02, 2018

    • They Shot Each Other Down Then Depended On Each Other For Survival In The Norwegian Wilderness

      March 02, 2018

    • “It’s Service I Had To Do” – Army veteran served with infantry division in Europe during WWII

      March 02, 2018

    • The American Fighter Pilot Who Served in Two Wars and Shot Down 16 Enemy Planes

      March 02, 2018

    • Nazi German Special Forces: The Brandenburg Regiment

      March 01, 2018

    • Banzai Cliff, The Site of Hundreds of Suicides at the End of the Battle of Saipan

      March 01, 2018

    • The End of the Road: Hitler’s Downfall

      March 01, 2018

    • Polish Corporal Wojtek – The Non-Human WWII Hero

      March 01, 2018

    • Striking Where it Hurts: Luftwaffe Destroy Historic English Towns in the Baedeker Blitz

      March 01, 2018

    • The End Of Mussolini, April 28, 1945

      March 01, 2018

    • Fearing Crash And Detonation On Takeoff, The First Atomic Bomb Had To Be Assembled In Flight

      February 28, 2018

    • Mussolini’s Rescue – A Mountaintop Operation Which Was Mostly a Downhill Pull

      February 28, 2018

    • The Heroic US Coast Guard Who Gave His Life To Save His Shipmates During A Desperate Rescue In WW2

      February 28, 2018

    • Things That The Russians Did Right During Operation Barbarossa

      February 28, 2018

    • Karl Donitz, Commander in Chief of the Kriegsmarine, Was The Last President of Nazi Germany

      February 28, 2018

    • Loyal To His Country – Missouri farmer served as munitions handler in Europe during WWII

      February 28, 2018

    • How Spain’s Refusal To Join The Axis Saved The British Naval Base at Gibraltar

      February 27, 2018

    • This Is Richard Bong, The USA’s Ace of Aces – He Was Killed in A Test Flight

      February 27, 2018

    • In WW2, General Eisenhower Lost a Bet and Had to Give General Montgomery His Own B-17

      February 27, 2018

    • Desperately Holding Near Arnhem, Major Robert Cain Used the PIAT to Perfection to be Awarded the Victoria Cross

      February 27, 2018

    • The Capture Of The Bridge Over The Rhine At Remagen, 7 March 1945

      February 27, 2018

    • This Rogue Nazi General Committed High Treason To Stop The Reign of Terror in Croatia

      February 26, 2018

    • Operation Varsity – Crossing Of The Rhine In The Final Months Of WW2

      February 26, 2018

    • Survived Nazi Dr Josef Mengele removing his kidney without anaesthesia & survived a gas chamber as he was the 201st person in line for a chamber of 200 people

      February 26, 2018

    • How The Stringbag, an Outdated Biplane, Took Out the Gigantic Battleship Bismarck in the Second World War

      February 26, 2018

    • During Their Reign of Terror The Nazis Killed 16,000 People With the Guillotine

      February 26, 2018

    • Meyer Lansky – The American Jewish Mobster Who Hunted Down Nazi Sympathizers And Secured New York Harbor

      February 26, 2018

    • The Incredible Story of Sgt López, By the end, he had killed nearly 100 Germans, and his actions saved countless lives from K Company

      February 26, 2018

    • Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night, The WW2 Japanese Plan to Unleash Biological Warfare on the USA

      February 26, 2018

    • These WW2 Railwaymen Gave Their Lives to Prevent a Munitions Disaster

      February 25, 2018

    • A Cameraman’s last picture – Tragedy as an Undetonated Bomb Explodes on the USS Oriskany (Watch)

      February 25, 2018

    • Genocide And War Crimes – The Worst Japanese Massacres of WWII

      February 25, 2018

    • The Heroic US Coast Guard Cutter Crew Who Battled U-Boats In WWI – An Amazing Tale of Bravery

      February 25, 2018

    • Fast Facts – Hitler Gambles Everything: The Battle of the Bulge

      February 25, 2018

    • Heroic End Of French Fleet – Scuttled 77 Ships To Avoid Capture By Nazi Germany

      February 25, 2018

    • With Suicidal Courage, Commander Ernest Evans Took on 4 Japanese Battleships near Leyte, With 3 Destroyers

      February 24, 2018

    • Ham And Jam – The Daring Glider Operation To Take Pegasus Bridge

      February 24, 2018

    • Memories From WWII US Marine Albert G. Pinard, Fighting The Japanese Imperial Army In The South Pacific Islands

      February 24, 2018

    • Firing From the Hip: With a Modified Aircraft Machinegun, Corporal Tony Stein Fired His Way Across Iwo Jima

      February 24, 2018

    • Joachim Peiper’s Atrocities Against Allied Troops: When Intimidation Failed

      February 24, 2018

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