Ruhrstahl/kramer PCI400x Fritz X Designed by Dr. Max Kramer, the PC 400X was on of the world's first two operational anti-shipping missiles....
A British Mk III helmet, issued to Canadian frontline units. Operation Windsor left bitter memories for the Canadian Regiment de la Chaudière,...
Stalingrad was as much the turning point for the air force as it was for the Red Army, and Soviet flyers shot down approximately 900 German...
hello, I proceed to restore the little ship (H) Annabel having participated in Operation Dynamo, I would have known of documents, testimonies,...
This story was first told in newspapers around April 1945 A man who was thrice condemned by the Gestapo to be executed first by hanging, then...
On December 7, 1941, Miller awoke at 6:00 A.M. and was collecting laundry when the alarm for general quarters was sounded. He headed for his...
"The rise and fall of the empire depends upon this battle," signalled Yamamoto to his attack fleet before the strike at Pearl Harbor. But even at...
Nicknamed the 'Houseowner' by his comrades, Sergeant Jacob Pavlov, Hero of the Soviet Union and pre-war accountant, held a battered four-storey...
Andrey Khozyaynov, a sailor serving in the Naval Infantry Brigade, who was the only survivor of the battle for the Grain Elevator, lived to write...
'The struggle for Stalingrad is nearing a successful conclusion. Today or tomorrow we may expect to receive important OKW announcements about the...
The Enigma was a highly sophisticated mechanical encryption device that had a keyboard and looked superficially like a typewriter. The German...
For Four Years The Germans Tried To Catch Me... Emile Declercq, 23-year-old son of a Belgian grain merchant, was known to the Germans as a...
Terrific damage was wrought on Japanese airfields by U.S. Army Air Forces during a raid on Buru Island near Celebes in the battle for New Guinea...
Instituted: 1944 retroactive to December 7, 1941. Criteria: The Bronze Star Medal is awarded to individuals who, while serving in the United...
"Except possibly for a few last shots, the Battle of London is over," declared Mr. Duncan Sandys, M.P. Chairman of the War Cabinet Committee on...
The Grumman TBF Avenger was a torpedo bomber developed initially for the United States Navy and Marine Corps, and eventually used by several air...
Twenty year old Yugoslav girl fighter credited with killing 20 Germans; she is standing before a portrait of her leader, Marshal Tito, while...
School for snipers in a Russian forest trains Red army marksmen who took such heavy toll of the enemy, here also, battle skilled troops had...
After a 12-hour chase in the Arctic gloom the 26,000 ton German Battle Ship Scharnhorst, enticed from her lair in Altenfjord, Northern Norway, by...
Private Joseph W. Ozbourn's Medal of Honor citation reads as follows: "For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and...