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Lloyd Kilmer Made It Out Of A POW Camp On Liberation Day

Ian Harvey

Kilmer was from Minnesota and he enlisted in the war in 1942, when he was 21 years old. After finishing his military training, he went…

Horrific World War I experience documented in soldier’s diary

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  Harry Drinkwater Soldier’s diary is a surviving testimony of his actual hair-raising experience during the Great War. As a soldier in the muddy trenches,…

Nazi war criminal Priebke avoids being cremated and buried at sea like Bin Laden

Photo story (Clockwise from top left): (1) Priebke showed no remorse in the video recorded just before his death, he rather accused the resistance fighters…

Ex-Nazi Responsible for 1943 Murders Is Finally Convicted by Italian Courts

Ex-corporal for the Nazi party, Afred Stork is convicted for his involvement if the massacre of 117 Italian officers. On October 18th, the Italian military…

Was Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement policy best for Britain’s national interests?

Photo story (Clockwise from top left): (1) Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister of UK from May, 1937 to May, 1940 (2) Chamberlain speaking to interpreter…

New F-35 built in honor of WWII P-38 pilots

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Officials of Lockheed Martin unveiled their newly assembled F-35 Lightning II  at Fort Worth October 4 this year to honor the World War II veterans…

Bodies of two Austro-Hungarian soldiers found, 95 years after death in the Italian Alps

Photo story:  (From left): (1) Austro-Hungarian mountain troop Kaiserschützen in Tyrol, hilly territory between Italy and Austria, (2) Two dead bodies of presumed Kaiserschützen soldiers…

Arizona Woman Hopes to Recover her Uncle’s Remains from WW2

A woman from Arizona believes that a discovery of the biggest lake in Italy could lead to the recovery of the remains of her uncle…

ANZIO: Italy and the battle for Rome 1944. Review by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes

ANZIO: Italy and the battle for Rome 1944 By Lloyd Clark. Published by Headline. £20.00 hardback. ISBN 07553 1420 4 ISBN 978 0 7553 1420…

The sad story of the Italian armistice of 8 September 1943

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By Romeo Pavoni for War History Online There are some events in the history of every nation that represent a turning point, for the Italian…

Italys Sorrow by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes

This is not a pretty story from any perspective, there no sides with clean hands ITALY’S SORROW – A year of war 1944-45 By James…