[img] Field Marshall Freidrich von Paulus. He surrendered to the Russians on 31st January 1943, just 2 days after attaining the rank. Hitler...
The Tiger illustrated here belongs to the 2nd SS Panzer Grenadier Division 'Das Reich'. The fourteen Tigers a available to the division for...
Status Operation Uranus was the Russian Counter-Attack at Stalingrad from 19th - 30th November 1942. As Friedrich von Paulus's 6th Army were...
[img] Operation "Neptune/Overlord" were the code names for the 6 June 1 944 D-Day Landings on the Normandy coast of German-occupied France....
The Me 163 was designed by Alexander Martin Lippisch. It was the first military aircraft designed to use a rocket engine and it was the fastest...
The Me 262 was perceived by many as a last ditch Wonder Weapon by the Germans to try and save the dire situation they were in following reversals...
Polish born Arthur Szyk attended art school in Paris and studied Islamic art in the middle east before enlisting in the Russian Army in 1914. He...
The "Stormovik" is probably the best known Russian Ground Attack Aircraft of WW2. It was a virtual Flying Tank and was very heavily armed &...
[IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] This is one of things I found in among my fathers things when he died. Dad was a Staff Sergeant in the...
Do you know how many in total had the Germans of the groups SS? I think 5, Hitler Jugend, Totenkopf, were 2 do you know of more names. :oi:
War44.com has been given permission from Sapper Brian Guy to use in parts facts taken from the book “Cameos of War” that he wrote regarding his...
On October 5, 1942, by accident, Hermann Graebe, a German engineer and manager of a German construction firm in the Ukraine, and his foreman, came...
In October of 1939 amid the turmoil of the outbreak of war Hitler ordered widespread "mercy killing" of the sick and disabled. Code named...
Interesting article by the historian Norman Davies in an old Sunday Times aticle i found while surfing... :thumb: How we didn't win the war ....
This fake passport for Adolf Hitler was made by the Special Operations Executive (SOE). The work of this group was to organise resistance in...
When the war had started in the west and the battle for Caen was underway, Hitler visited his Generals , Rundstedt and Rommel, as these were...
Filled with surprises as it has been, the war has provided no stranger, indeed amazing, occurrence than the arrival in Scotland of Rudolf Hess,...
When Rudolf Hess, Hitler's Deputy, landed by parachute near Glasgow on the night of May 10th he was first encountered at Newton Mearns, 8 miles...
ON April 19, 1941, women born in 1920 were called upon to register for national service. In a broadcast explaining the scheme Mr. Ralph Assheton,...
Hi all! Cause i want to be a permanent forummember, i wanna introduce myself a bit detailly: Im 14 years old and im comming out of Germany. I...