One of our newest submarines operating in the Mediterranean accounted, according to the official statement, for seventeen enemy vessels in the...
July 11th : attack on a convoy intercepted by Hurricanes. Sptifires intercepted Bf 109's. Hurricanes attacked 12 Heinkel 111's over Isle of Wight....
What was fat hermann thinking when he told AH that he could supply the 6th Army from the air, in ideal conditions with the aircraft available it...
Stalingrad is one of my 'favorite' (is that the right word) battles of WWII, it still amazes me that the russians managed to hold on and beat the...
Really suprised that no-one has mentioned this totally vintage all time, all star classic ok its slightly on th elong side so set aside an entire...
Joyce Storey was born in Bristol in 1917. After leaving school at fourteen she worked in service before finding work in a corset factory. Just...
Helen Kirkpatrick was born in Rochester, New York in 1909. After leaving Smith College in 1931, Kirkpatrick studied international law at the...
He stands knee deep in a shallow trench on a gently sloping field outside the small farming town in northern France. An old man with his memories...
This is a double edge post in a way that i am giving an insight of a book that i have read to making a post about the Resistance, it would fit in...
Allied troops are shown here settled on the Normandy beaches after the 1st days battles against the German defences and now sending out much...
The underground press was more than a means of promoting the Resistance. Many papers were full-scale news-gathering operations that supplied...
On April 9, 1940, the day German forces occupied the Danish town of Slagelse, a 17-year-old schoolboy named Arne Sejr composed and typed up 25...
Holland's government, left for exile in London, three days after the Germans attacked on May 10th, 1940. With the ministers went their Queen,...
Does anyone have any family/close friends that have served in battle during world war 1? If so do you know what there background was in the military?
One of the first signs of public antipathy toward the German occupiers was the seditious handiwork of graffiti artists. For the most part, these...
Between April and June of 1940, German armies overran six nations of Western Europe: Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Holland, Belgium and France. The...
Three days after becoming Prime Minister, Winston Spencer Churchill (1874-1965) told the Commons: “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears...
This personal version of events of the landings of 6th Airborne troops on 5th June,1944 was dictated by Private Eric Woods, a short time before...
Blitzkrieg "lightning war" was the key to Germany’s successes on land during the first half of the war, and speed was the essence of blitzkrieg....
On September 5, 1944, a unit of Belgian marquis attacked a German unit, killing three soldiers. Two days later the American troops arrived in the...