The Kaoru Airborne Raiding Detachment, November 1944 The Kaoru Airborne Raiding Detachment was formed as an element of the Guerrilla Unit...
Omaha Beach If there is one place where the Landings nearly failed, it is, of course, Omaha Beach. Although the place chosen for the...
By the Spring of 1944, the Allied preparations for the invasion of France and the initial stages for the liberation of western Europe (Operation...
An estimated 25 million German helmets were produced between 1935 and May 1945. These were manufactured by a number of firms, including some which...
Oberleutnant Rudolf Witzig Witzig was born in Rohlinghausen on 14 August 1916. His military career began as an officer cadet with the Army's...
The Tiger illustrated here belongs to the 2nd SS Panzer Grenadier Division 'Das Reich'. The fourteen Tigers a available to the division for...
Dropping Bread and Clothes rather than bombs. Cpt J A Moller releasing his cargo of supplies to starving Dutch Civilians at Valkenberg on May 1st...
[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...
Bielefeld, western Germany, 14th March 1945. The Lancaster B.1 (Special) heading towards its target had been unable to reach more than 14,000ft...
The development of the Bazooka was born of 2 different weapons - The Recoilless Rocket and the Shaped Charge Warhead. Following work done by Dr...
The British Ordnance QF 17 Pounder Gun was considered the best Allied Anti-Tank Gun of WW2. Using APDS Ammunition it could take on and defeat any...
The Nakajima Ki 43 Hayabusa (Allied Codename : Oscar) was the master of the Pacific skies along with the IJN's Zero in the early part of the war....
At the start of WW2 Japan had amassed the biggest Carrier Fleet of any of the Combatant Nations. She could boast 6 Large & 4 Smaller Carriers with...
IT was the longest and hardest won campaign of the Second World War. Now, more than 60 years after the end of bloody Battle of the Atlantic, the...
At the beginning of 1943 the nazi's decided to produce/assemble U-Boote (submarines) in Bunkers. It was planned to build U-Boats of the type XXI...
Douglas Bader was a legend who won huge admiration - even among Germans. An outstanding sportsman, Bader joined the RAF in 1931 to be acknowledged...
Vera Leigh was born in Leeds on 17th March, 1903. Abandoned as a baby she was adopted by Eugene Leigh, an American married to an English woman....
The significance of the sinking of U-487 was far greater than just the loss of a refueler, as critical as that may have been. The loss of this...