World War Two unexploded ordnance causes chaos in Cologne
[Via] Unexploded ordnance from World War Two still remains an everyday occurrence across Germany. The most recent incident in the North West city of Cologne…
US Air Force pilot’s World War Two remains found
[Via] The remains of a US Air Force pilot who was killed during World War Two have been located and are being returned to his…
Sacrifices made by all including Great Britain’s Royal Family
Elizabeth in Auxiliary Territorial Service uniform, April 1945 via Wikipedia World War II was a time in which everyone made sacrifices including Britain’s royal family. These…
Images emerge of Japan’s famous submarines that never saw action during World War II
[Via] With World War II in the Pacific was in its final months, a desperate plan to launch bacteriological weapons on the US West coast…
America’s First Victory Against the German Army Was 97 Years Ago Today
By Matthew J. Davenport, author of First Over There:The Attack on Cantigny, America’s First Battle of World War I (St. Martin’s Press, released May 12,…
Czech city of Brno remembers death march of Sudenten Germans
[Via] Brno, Czechoslovakia’s second largest city, has commemorated and apologised for a ‘death march’ which took place in the city in May 1945. At the…
VE Day was the start of a Cold War battle for Lithuania
A military parade during celebrations in the Soviet Union in 1983 of the anniversary of the October Revolution, via Wikipedia Even though VE Day marked…
Dunkirk boats sail back in 75th anniversary commemorations
On the 75th anniversary of the evacuation of Dunkirk, some of the original wooden boats that went over to rescue the Allied soldiers from France…
‘Never to part again’ Lohman, Mo., sailor killed in Japanese kamikaze attack in World War II
By Jeremy P. Amick A mother’s love for a child can be an abstract and unwavering force that yields to no person or object. Few…
Yamamoto World War Two crash site re-opened
[Via] The World War Two crash site where the Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto died has been reopened to visitors after more than five years. The…
USAAF Stories – The B-24D “Lady Be Good”
Lady Be Good was a USAAF B-24D liberator which had been bombing Naples on April 4 1943. It disappeared without a trace only to be…
Look Who’s Back – New modern fiction novel brings Hitler back to life
Look Who’s Back [Via] In the run up to and during World War Two, Adolf Hitler was ridiculed, mocked and laughed at all around the…