World War II | War History

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

Japanese kamikaze attack

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

Yamamoto

[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

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…

A Short overview of the Battle of Okinawa

A 6th Marine Division demolition crew watches explosive charges detonate and destroy a Japanese cave, May 1945. [Via] The Battle of Okinawa took place from…

Two US Navy ships located, Sunk During D-Day Rehearsal – Killing Hundreds of Americans

US Navy ships

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…

5 Soldiers who fought on even when the war was over or when the odds were against them

War is all about standing up for what you believe in, even if it eventually leads to your death. A real soldier fights till the…

The captured OSS agent who convinced an entire German Army to surrender!

Frederick Mayer was born in Baden Germany, in a Jewish family. He worked in Germany for a while after finishing High School education, working as…

WORLD WAR II: From Blitzkrieg to Hiroshima – Review by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes

This book is re-released in time for the 70th anniversary of the end of the war. It was overseen by the late Richard Holmes; the…

An amazing tale of a US soldier saved by a Nazi doctor

The Second World War has countless tales of heroic escapes and daring adventures, but some stories that came out of this war restore one’s faith…