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Missing both Legs, This RAF Fighter Ace Took out 22 Germans Planes, Then Escaped Multiple POW Camps

Life with amputated legs can prove difficult for even the most mundane of tasks require extra effort.  But trying taking on the German Luftwaffe and…

U.S. Finally Given Permission to Bring Home Remains of Soldiers in Himalayas

A recent effort from the U.S. Defense Prisoners of War Accounting Agency has resulted in the finding of more American remains.  The group that made…

WWII and Monopoly, how it helped captured Airmen escape!

Heziel Pitogo

  The board game called Monopoly had really come a long way since it was first mass-produced in America in 1934. The game is basically…

The Last Russian Battlefield of WWII – Remains of Russian and Japanese Soldiers Found on Shumshu Island

After Pearl Harbor, the United States came face to face with the reality of the war and an enemy that almost everyone in the Government…

The Last Russian Battlefield of WWII – Remains of Russian and Japanese Soldiers Found on Shumshu Island

After Pearl Harbor, the United States came face to face with the reality of the war and an enemy that almost everyone in the Government…

Re-Educating The Hitler Youth (What To Do With The German Boy Soldiers?) – From Yank Magazine, 1945

From Yank Magazine, 1945 Captured Wehrmacht GIs between the ages of 12 and 17 get special indoctrination in democracy at this PW school sparked by…

Nazi Goebbels’ Billionaire Descendants

It has been revealed that the descendants of the one of the most trusted associate of Adolf Hitler, Josef Goebbels are living the ‘Royal’ lives…

The Art of the ‘Real’ Deal by Steven White

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Donald Trump likes “people that weren’t captured.” When I heard Trump’s babbling ramble about Senator John McCain, my thoughts were not with the senator, whose…

British PoWs in Japanese Camps saved by the English pointer dog

Animals were widely used during World War Two and the story of Judy the English pointer dog who was used to help save British prisoners…

40 Facts about the Dunkirk Evacuation of WW2

The end of May, early June 1940, 75 years ago in the early days of the Second World War, the most amazing rescue mission took…

MUST READ & SHARE: The Great Escape 71 years today. Read this excellent piece of work – it is everything you need to know!

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71 years ago today was the beginning of the Great Escape. Below is an excellent article by Rob Davis, Telford, Shropshire from the UK. This is one…

I ESCAPE! – Review by Wayne Osborne

Wayne Osborne

This book was first published by John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd in 1927 and no prizes for guessing what it is about! This is…