The Kaoru Airborne Raiding Detachment, November 1944 The Kaoru Airborne Raiding Detachment was formed as an element of the Guerrilla Unit...
Lexington entered service in 1928 and was joined the same year by her sister ship. Both ships were assigned to the Pacific Fleet where they would...
On the evening of 4 August 1940, three Gladiators of No 80 Sqn left their advanced base at Sidi Barrani, on the Egyptian coast, to escort a...
Fregattenkapitan Otto Kretschmer Otto Kretschmer was probably the greatest of the World War II U-boat aces. He was born in Heidau, Silesia, on...
Case Blue was the German Offensive starting on 28th June 1942 to cut off and surround Soviet Armies in the Don Bend, capture vital oil supplies in...
Vera Leigh was born in Leeds on 17th March, 1903. Abandoned as a baby she was adopted by Eugene Leigh, an American married to an English woman....
Dropping with the 9th Parachute Battalion on 3rd Parachute Brigade's DZ 'V' was the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, commanded by...
Omaha Beach was the only landing area where the outcome was ever in doubt. The fighting raged for 18 hours, concentrated around the "draws," the...
On June 6th 1944 an international coalition attacked Nazi occupied France along the Normandy coast. Supported by paratroops, soldiers landed on...
Oskar Schindler [IMG] 1908 - 1974 In December 1939, as occupied Poland was being torn apart by the savagery of the Holocaust, Oskar...
Stalin’s Winter Offensive Never having visited the Front himself, Stalin decides on a wholesale offensive from Finland to the Black Sea. By...
By 1917, U.35 had become so famous that a special attempt was made to record one of her cruises in the Mediterranean by sending a photographer to...
Major General Sir Percy Hobart Percy Hobart joined the Royal Engineers in 1904 and then in 1906 transferred to the engineers in the Indian Army....
Hitler's Children They were the offspring of a Nazi program to create a racially pure 'Master Race.' Behind the painful search to discover...
The dramatic evacuation of the Czechoslovakian Army from France has been successfully completed by the arrival in England of the final contingent,...
Operation Greif Operation Greif was a special false flag operation commanded by the notorious Waffen-SS commando Otto Skorzeny during the...
In late 1943, 3,000 local residents in the area of Slapton had been informed by the British Government that they must evacuate their homes as part...
It took only six weeks for France to capitulate to the German invaders. A stunning defeat - particularly since before the war the French army was...
Taken from the 1st magazine of The War Illustrated Edited By Sir John Hammerton. Confronted by the record in other pages of the things Hitler...
On my first visit to Normandy I came across four coastal German batteries at a place called longues sur-Mer, situated in the Bay of the Seine, to...