As in most wars, disease and accidents were more common in World War II than battle wounds. Two-thirds of hospital admissions—on both...
I'm not sure if there is a thread started for this mini-series elsewhere but I couldn't find it and thought we'd be remiss not to discuss this...
HMS Thetis and HMS Thunderbolt The Royal Navy’s worst ever submarine disaster occurred on June 1st 1939, when brand new vessel HMS Thetis sank...
The first 3-in (76,2-mm) mortar was the original Stokes Mortar that was first used in March 1917. This version remained in use for many years...
The first of the British 2-in (50.8-mm) mortars appeared in 1918, but it was not in service for long being rendered obsolete in 1919. It was not...
Jim, thanks for adding this series of Brian's war tales he is a very good writer and gets things across quite easily. Best wishes to Brian Guy.
Negroes, the term used to describe African Americans for most of the 19th and 20th centuries, were the largest racial minority in the United...
After the United States entered World War I in 1917, among the various types of heavy artillery its army received once US troops arrived in France...
How would I upload a file or files to the Web-Site please? I have 4 PDF files that make up an E-Book - Bombers of the Luftwaffe 1933 - 1945.
A half-track of the SdKfz 251 series (“Max”) towing Rommel’s caravan (“Moritz”) near Tobruk, 1941. [img]
The many reports of German brutality in the occupied towns and villages in Russia were strikingly confirmed by this remarkable series of...
Hi! Here's a humorous take on the endless debate of which is the better rifle, the AK or AR series. Personally, I believe in using the right...
General Information: The Battle of Monte Cassino was, in fact, a desperate and costly series of battles fought by the Allies during January and...
Hello I have always been a fan of good war documentaries. I like to fall asleep to documentaries pretty much every night. For a while I was...
Hi! Is there a forum somewhere here about movies on WW2? I dig those kind of movies ever since the Vic Moro/Rick Jason show when I was a kid. I...
Civilians trapped in the occupied countries were often unsure of how to respond to their predicament. Many turned a blind eye to the atrocious...
For the first half of the war, the principal armament on most U-boats was the 8.8cm or 10.5cm naval gun, and/or the 2cm flak gun. As the war...
Of all of the Type VII models, none saw as much modification and improvement to the basic design as did the most common model of all, the Type...
In December 1941 two major US forces posed a threat to Japanese plans for expansion into South East Asia and Indonesia: the Navy's Pacific fleet...
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....