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Pilot’s-Eye View Of The Awesome WW2 B-17 “Aluminum Overcast” During Takeoff (Watch)

This video footage allows you to experience first-hand the takeoff of Aluminum Overcast, a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress as it departs from Arlington Municipal Airport.…

Amazing Drone Footage Of Abandoned WWII Airbase – Used By The Germans And The Russians (Watch)

Take a look at this great drone footage of the Sperenberg Airfield. The military complex, constructed originally for the Prussian Army, was adapted for rocket…

Family Of American POW Killed In Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Blast Speak Out

Ian Harvey

Susan Archinski and her husband Tony have a personal stake in the remembrance of Hiroshima. Susan’s uncle, Normand Brissette, was a prisoner of war being…

This German Officer Sacrificed His Life In A Minefield To Save An American Soldier

October 7, 1994, saw a strange sight over the Hürtgen War Cemetery in Hürtgen, Germany. The cemetery is the final home of 3001 bodies –…

Much More Than Code Talking – The Role of Native Americans in World War II

Native Americans made an enormous contribution to the World War II effort. Sadly, their involvement in the conflict is widely overlooked. Sometimes, they are portrayed…

How A Pigeon Delivered The First Message From The Normandy Beaches

Thousands of pigeon trainers donated their birds to the war effort in World War II to assist in getting news from the front brought home. The…

Dodge Challenger SRT 392 Car Has Military-Themed WWII Plane Shark Teeth

You probably think that with the sudden increase of the so-called liquid car wrap industry, the vinyl car wrap section of the market has lost…

Recruiting The Special Forces Who Hunted Hitler’s Nukes During The Second World War

The incredible story of a Scottish scoutmaster who had some responsibility for destroying Adolf Hitler’s atomic weapons program has come to light. The memoirs of…

Stunning Drone’s-Eye View Of Hitler’s Atlantic Wall Towers On Guernsey (Watch)

The Channel Islands were amongst the most heavily fortified parts of the Atlantic Wall. On 20 October 1941, Hitler signed a directive which was to…

Irena Sendler: The Unknown Hero Of The Warsaw Ghetto Who Saved 2,500 Children

Irena Sandler’s name is not as well-known as Oskar Schindler, but it should be. Schindler saved 1,200 Jews from the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia.  Sendler, his…

Killing Of German Prisoners After The End Of WW2 Is Remembered At Utah Museum

The murder of German prisoners of war shortly after WWII ended is to be remembered with a new museum at Salina, Utah. Dee Olsen and…

Brilliant Drone Footage Of Stalingrad Battle Reenactment (Watch)

Operation Winter Storm was certainly one of the most important events that took place during the bloody battle of Stalingrad. The city that represented the…