Anybody read "All the Kings Men" ? Fascinating insite in to the role of the "Auxilliary Units" if the Germans had invaded the UK in 1940. The...
If you want to see Aeroplanes of the second war then try and pay a visit to RAF Coningsby Lincolnshire Museum. They have lots of aircraft in...
Known as the Kriegsmarine during WWII .. The Germans established more than twenty large coastal batteries between Cherbourg and Le Havre and...
The American Airborne Landings and St Mere Eglise The Allies The overall mission of the two US airborne divisions on the morning of...
The German Naval battery at St Marcouf (also known as Crisbecq) was placed to cover the potential landing beaches along the eastern coast of the...
On June 10, 1944, a Nazi SS Division (Das Reich) surrounded the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in France then ordered everyone in the town, 652...
Hey girls:ponder: I think this forum needs a feedback subforuml to tell you what i dont like. Otherways.. May i write it down now:
http://www.3dhistory.de/index-frameset_e.htm Computer Graphics recreating the great Battleships of WW2
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,...
Introduction The case of William Joyce must be one of the most famous treason trials in British legal history. Due to the legal issues...
With huge apologies to www.pegasusarchive.org , Also it's long but what could I have left out ? [IMG] Lieutenant Richard Andrew...
The assault by the 8th Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, on Sword Beach was somewhat similar to the US 4th Infantry Division at Utah, landing along...
Broadcasting to the nation from Buckingham Palace on September 23 at the height of the Battle of London, King George VI announced the creation of...
My Gramp told me only a few of his wartime exploits before he past away, the most suprising one is of a sniper on D-Day. As his unit of Royal...
The Doolittle Raid on Japan in April 1942 demolished the Japanese military's perception that their homeland was immune from air attack. They...
What were the effects of world war II upon the major world powers; upon Germany, Japan, England, France, the soviet union, and the united states?...
There are times when one finds oneself eye witnessing history, yet not fully realizing the implication of what one saw at the time. Such an...
Wartime Britain was surprisingly cosmopolitan: French sailors, bush-hatted Australian soldiers and exuberant GI's were familiar figures on the...
U-534 was sunk in the last significant engagement of the Battle of the Atlantic even though the captain (a Nazi party member) new the war was lost...
Watched 'A Bridge Too Far' today. Excellent movie. Which led me to this thread. A couple of good sites all about Operation Market Garden....