This account is based on the dispatches to The Daily Telegraph by its correspondents Martin Moore and Marsland Gander back in 1943. A...
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...
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....
One of the most extraordinary experiences of the War fell to the lot of H. J. Coates, of Islington. A 20-year-old Probationary Electrical Mechanic...
John Alexander "Jack" French (1914 - 1942) soldier and barber, was born on 15 July 1914 at Crows Nest, near Toowoomba, Queensland, third of five...
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...
These were good, reliable weapons with a high effective rate of fire (220 rpm) and even more lethal when mounted in a quadruple mount as the 2cm...
8.8cm Flak 18 Gun of an unidentified unit that was based in Sicily in June 1943. [img] 8.8cm Flak 18 Gun of the 19th Flak Division, El...
Private Ernest Faulkner was 23 when he was drafted out to the Far East. Although in the same regiment as Jim Howard (next story below), his...
Lieutenant Joseph Hardy of the Border Regiment landed outside Arnhem. His actions under fire and, as the recommendation for his MC stated, ‘his...
General Sir Richard Nelson Gale GCB, KBE, DSO, MC (1896 – 1982) In World War II he served with 1st Parachute Brigade and then the 6th Airborne...
The memorials in white marble from Lasa in Italy indicate the religion of each soldier: a Star of David for members of the Jewish faith and a...
Its amazing that after all these years that finds like this still happen, thou it makes you wonder why it took so long when it was common...
Jimmie W. Monteith, 1st US Infantry Division. He landed on Omaha Beach in the first wave of the assault on 6th June. Under a flood of fire and...
(1) A German plane towing three troop carrying gliders, or air trailers. The rear one was attached by cable to the tail unit of the towing plane;...
The balloon factories were now to supply the new demand of the balloon barrages that had been set up to protect such vulnerable points as the...
New Nazi Frightfulness off Britain's Coasts A number of neutral ships sunk by German mines close into the English shore marked the opening of...
A major factor in the success of the Allies from the second half of 1941 onwards was the cracking of the Enigma machine. Enigma was the name of a...
We know of many a theme that was kept "Top Secret" during WWII and we can understand as to why, but as the years have past Classified material has...
Born at Bückeburg on 16 January 1892, Wilhelm von Apell was an officer cadet with Jäg.Btl. 7 in 1910 then a Leutnant in 1911. He served in that...