Much well merited praise was often bestowed on the fine output of the Army film and Photographic unit and that of the official photographers...
A Sherman Tank passes through an imposing arch into the town of Cassibile, on the coastal road between Syracuse and Avola, a sector overrun by the...
It's the 70th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain this year. 15th September is Battle of Britain Day as this saw the heaviest aerial fighting of...
[ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH] Heinkel He 111 Role Medium bomber Manufacturer Heinkel Flugzeugwerke Designed by Siegfried and...
Petlyakov Pe-2 [ATTACH][ATTACH] Role Bomber Manufacturer Petlyakov Designed by Vladimir Petlyakov First flight 22 December 1939...
Role Heavy fighter / strike aircraft Manufacturer Bristol Aeroplane Company First flight 17 July 1939 Introduction 27 July 1940 Retired...
Werner Pluskat was a German Major who died in 1996, commander of the 352nd Artillery of the German 352nd Infantry Division during Allied invasion...
Platoon sergeant James W. Collins was one of five thousand Americans in Stalag III-B, a prisoner-of-war camp near Frankfurt, in western Germany....
Australians posing around an abandoned German 15cm artillery piece after the battle of EI Alamein; note the variety of clothing and headgear. [img]
[img] Aerial pictures taken of the Longues-sur-Mer Battery after the invasion of Normandy showing the craters made by many bombing sorties of...
This story is as first told to the War Illustrated in August 1942. A six day battle against attacking planes recently fought by one of the...
At the billet the birds of the Army Pigeon Service have their individual well appointed quarters. Here they are rested after a “lesson” and their...
This story was told to the "War Illustrated" on the 1st May 1942 We Went With the Raiders to St. Nazaire Supplementing the official story...
A time-honoured custom of the British Army, has it that a soldier killed in battle is buried in the ground on which he shed his blood. This is why...
It began early in the night of the 5th and 6th June when paratroops landed. In the small hours, following intense bombing, landings began,...
When I read the thread below about the Ladies of the French Resistance, it instantly remind me a documentary I saw a few weeks ago on Arte (Arte...
[img]11,169 German graves Sited in open country access to the Marigny cemetery is approached along a narrow winding road. It was set up by the...
[img] 21,222 German graves The cemetery at La Cambe was set up by American troops who had a Field Hospital at La Cambe after taking the...
[img] 2,183 graves: 1,623 British, 3 Canadian, 1 Australian, 556 German. From mid-June 1944 until the liberation of Caen on 9th July,...
[img] 598 graves: 569 British, 16 Canadian, 6 Australian, 1 New Zealander, 5 South African, 1 American The entrance is side-ways on and...