Eight Canadian World War One soldiers finally laid to rest
[Via] The bodies of eight Canadian World War One soldiers have been discovered in the village of Hallu in north eastern France. Thousands of Canadian…
Commemoration ceremonies take place at Nazi concentration camp sites
Commemoration ceremonies have taken place at two Nazi concentration camps marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two. The ceremony at Bergen-Belsen…
Two US Navy ships located, Sunk During D-Day Rehearsal – Killing Hundreds of Americans
The wreck of LST 531 [Via] Two World War Two US Navy ships that were sunk of the south west coast of England have been located…
Excavation at Waterloo Battlefield unearths Muskets from first shots fired in the Battle
An archeological excavation looking into the battlefield of waterloo has discovered some used ‘Muskets’ that are believed to be from the very first shots fired…
Nazi ‘Surrender Order’ sold for over $30,000
Not everyone commanding the German Army was as ambitious as Hitler was in his last days of the Second World War. As the war approached…
GALLIPOLI – Review by Dr Wayne Osborne
Yes, there are many books about Gallipoli but by that same token there are many books about the Somme Campaign of 1916. So what? There…
Seventy years since Allied POWs forced to march across Germany
Seventy years ago 10,000 Allied POWs were forced to march hundreds of kilometres across Germany as the Nazis made their last attempts to salvage any small…
Japanese Zero was the flagship enemy fighter aircraft during World War Two
Mitsubishi A6M3 Zero Model 22 (NX712Z), recovered from New Guinea in 1991 and used (with the atypical green camouflage shown) in the film Pearl Harbor…
World War Two 1950s leaders’ reunion in images
New images of a post-World War Two leaders’ reunion have emerged to show the Allies in a more relaxed and calm manner. The photographs are black…
THE BLOODY ROAD TO TUNIS – Review by Mark Barnes
Here we have a new paperback edition of a superior account of the war in North Africa by David Rolf first published back in 2001. …
US World War Two internment and prisoner exchanges revealed
When the US entered World War Two after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the US responded in many ways and one was the…
Japan’s World War Two kamikaze legacy
Japan’s kamikaze pilots during World War Two were trained to die with their aircraft, in order to inflict as much damage and destruction on the…