World War 2 | War History

Flying Vintage WW2 Planes in Oregon

Today’s modern air flights mainly consist sitting in a cramped seat and looking out of a tiny window. But flyers in Central Oregon had the…

2016 Battle of the Atlantic Project – Protecting Wrecks From the Civil War to WW2

The 2016 Battle of the Atlantic Project is a project run by the NOAA and its partners. The aim of the project is to locate,…

WWII SAS Members Identified for Roll of Honor

For thirteen years a former soldier using the pen name Ex-Lance-Corporal X has worked to document and commemorate every SAS member killed in World War…

Captured German Tanks and Equipment dump in Normandy

This massive dump of captured or destroyed German equipment lies near Isigny-sur-Mer on the crossroads of the D196 and the D203 in the direction of Lison, east…

‘Denial’ Trailer – Follow Deborah Lipstadt Legal Battle Against Holocaust Denial

The acclaimed book “History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier,” has been made into a film. The film, DENIAL, recounts Deborah E. Lipstadt’s…

Low Flying B-17 From ‘The War Lover’ Movie – This Is Some Crazy Flying (Watch)

This video shows several low passes by a B-17 at RAF Bovingdon in England; it’s a clip from the movie “The War Lover.” The War…

Lyudmila Pavlichenko Was The Most Successful Female Sniper Ever With 309 Kills!

When the most countries of the world avoid putting women in the front line for some reasons during the World War II, the Soviet Union…

The Surrender of Japan Aboard the USS Missouri

Imperial Japan announced its surrender on August 15, 1945. The surrender was formally signed a few weeks later, on September 2, 1945, halting the hostilities…

He’s Called The Ghost, Has The Same Medal Count As Audie Murphy, And Is Virtually Unknown

By the time a man earns seven Purple Hearts and lives to talk about it, he could either be described as one of the luckiest…

The Mystery of Hitler’s Secret Ukranian ‘Werewolf Bunker’

Hitler’s ambitious campaign of dominating the European continent gave us the horrors of the death camps and a deadly World War; it also left us…

In 1943 a British Pilot Made an Emergency Landing on the Italian Island of Lampedusa, Only to Have it Surrender to Him

The official story is that in June 1943, as a precursor to the Allied invasion of Sicily, the island was secured without resistance by the Royal…

The Unbelievable Story Of A U.S. General’s Secret Mission To Occupied Rome To Discuss The Italian Surrender

General Tylor’s diplomatic and language skills resulted in his secret mission to Rome to coordinate an 82nd Airborne para drop with Italian forces. General Dwight…