Second World War | War History

Is This 112 Year old Auschwitz Survivor The Oldest Person Alive?

During the Second World War, more people died in the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz than the combined total number of American and British losses.…

2005, When The World’s First Fully Restored Halifax Went On Display

The sight was mesmerizing, when in 2005, a crowd of some 1,400 veterans and World War enthusiasts witnessed the unveiling of the world’s very first fully…

World War II Veteran To Reunite With Wartime Girlfriend

Just before daybreak on 6th June 1944, men of the US 101st Airborne Division parachuted into the French countryside, about five miles inland from a…

Thousands of tons of unexploded Second World War bombs in Germany

German bomb-disposal experts are the busiest in the world. Each year they deal with more than 2,000 tons of high explosives – mainly Second World…

William Unger,Well-known Veteran of WWII, Korea and Vietnam, Passes Away

A well-known former US Marine Corps serviceman, William Thomas Unger, has passed away at the age of 94. Mr. Unger saw action in three wars…

WWII B-26 Pilot Flew 75 Missions In The “Widow-maker”

Born in Brooklyn in 1921, Leon Leshay grew up in Massachusetts. He studied science at a Rhode Island college, where he had an opportunity to…

WWII WASP Women Pilots Denied A Place In Arlington National Cemetery

The first women pilots’ organisation – called the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) was set up in Britain, early in 1940. The idea behind the service…

PBJ Bomber to be Restored One Last Time And Put On Display

During a training run on June 6th, 1944, the crew in a Navy/Marine PBJ-1J bomber dipped low to the water over Lake Greenwood, South Carolina…

Omaha Beach Survivor Receives Légion d’honneur Organised By His Wartime Buddy

The Légion d’honneur was originated by Napoléon Bonaparte. It is France’s highest honour. On the 70th anniversary of D-Day in June 2014, the French President…

WWII Nazi SS fantasy castle opens to the public

Heinrich Himmler was one of the most vicious mass murderers in recorded history and was the architect of the Holocaust. He was born in Munich…

Historic Guernsey Fort for sale – Bring £2 million

The island of Guernsey, situated off the coast of Normandy is a British Crown Dependency. It is not a part of the British Isles but…

The Mystery of the Wellington Crash in 1941 Eventually Solved

There is no scarcity of lost and found stories of the last moments of thousands of Allied and German soldiers during the Second World War.…