"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 43-foot hole in the steel and concrete roof of this U-boat shelter at Brest was marked up to the credit of the R.A.F Others of these notorious...
When Britain’s fortunes were at its lowest ebb in 1940, when the Army had returned almost weapon less from Dunkirk and the full fury of Hitler’s...
A Lancaster bomber pilot from London, Squadron Leader E. Sprawson, D.F.C., wearing patched blue overalls and a dirty scarf told a Reuter...
Loaned for the purpose by patriotic owners, dogs were being trained in England for a number of important war duties, including the guarding of...
Twenty year old Yugoslav girl fighter credited with killing 20 Germans; she is standing before a portrait of her leader, Marshal Tito, while...
In June 1945, my Regiment, the 4th Queen's Own Hussars, was running a POW camp for Germans that had surrendered to us at the war's end. The...
Notes from my Diaries Wednesday 2nd. May 1945 Jerry threw his hand in Italy and Austria. Fired all our 2" mortars, phosphorous bombs and verey...
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...
2nd Battalion. Manchester Regiment London Gazetted on 22nd October, 1914. Born on 27th July 1892 at North Shields, Northumberland. Died...
Petlyakov Pe-2 [ATTACH][ATTACH] Role Bomber Manufacturer Petlyakov Designed by Vladimir Petlyakov First flight 22 December 1939...
In the great battles on the Russian front millions of German soldiers died. But very few had their obituary notices in the German newspapers, and...
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....
After lieutenant general Mark W. Clark’s U.S. Fifth Army captured Rome on June 6, 1944, Field Marshal Albrecht Kesselring, the German commander in...
The White Devil, that is what the Germans called a Soviet armoured train which operated in the central sector of the front before Moscow, and with...
The members of the U.S. Merchant Marine were civilians, paid by their civilian employers, and had their own union of seamen to negotiate for...
Schoolboy Victims of a German Raider were buried with their headmaster Mr. Charles Stephenson and a woman teacher in a common grave on Oct 3rd...
Stretching for many miles along the Volga, Stalingrad ranked among Russia's greatest industrial cities; here it is seen as a battlefield. The...
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...