When a Typhoon Nearly Wiped Out the US Third Fleet
The United States Third Fleet was working in the Philippine Sea in December 1944, carrying out air raids on Japanese airfields, when it found itself…
15 Facts About The B-29 Superfortress You May Not Know
Quickfire, 15 B-29 Superfortress facts that you may not know! 1) There were 3,970 B-29s produced between 1943 and 1946. 2) The B-29 was one…
The Many Movie Mistakes Of Enemy At The Gates
Released in 2001, Enemy at the Gates is a war film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. The film is named after William Craig’s book “Enemy at…
BEAUTIFUL BUT DEADLY! The Fresh Faced Young Girls That Fought For Stalin
Soviet women played a major role in World War II on the Eastern Front. While most women worked in the industry, agriculture, transport, and other…
AMAZING: 9 Recent WWII Discoveries
Seven decades after World War Two ended, artifacts from this period are still being discovered around the globe. These range from fighter airplanes in the desert…
Dirlewanger: A Violent Alcoholic, Sadist & War Criminal – Was Kicked to Death by His Guards
The notorious 36th Waffen Grenadier Divison of the SS earned its horrible reputation mostly on the Eastern Front where they freely conducted numerous war crimes…
The Mystery of B-24 ‘The Photo Queen’
The mystery of a B-24 bomber that was lost during a reconnaissance mission in the Pacific is on the verge of being solved with the…
The Life and Glory of ‘Hitler’s Car’
The spectrum of human’s fascination with artifacts and historic relics is as wide as it is peculiar. The Second World War gave us a number…
The Friendly Invasion Returns to Suffolk: Welcoming Home Two Men of The Mighty Eighth
Often, my father frustratingly reflects on his 17 year stint in the office of a sugar beet factory through the realisation that almost every man…
Drought sheds new light on the B-29 wreckage in Lake Mead
A massive B-29 Superfortress airplane flew a top-secret mission over Lake Mead in July of 1948. It was supposed to test a new missile guidance…
24 Best War Movies of All Time
Perhaps the most intriguing factor that drives humans towards the achievement of peace and cooperation is the reality of war and its consequences. Following are…
25 mind blowing colourised images of WWII – Check Out LCT 325 in Action – She is Now Preserved
We are used to viewing the war in black and white. So when you get to see colourised images it brings the war to us…