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...
War44.com has been given permission from Sapper Brian Guy to use in parts facts taken from the book “Cameos of War” that he wrote regarding his...
Let me first start by thanking Walter for sending me by email his personal story of the days leading up to and including D-Day thru to the VE Day....
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...
Hi all, here are a few good videos :wink: :wink: http://youtube.com/results?search_query=atlantikwall&search=Search When you want, i will...
The Sullivan Brothers is a great story, i know the majority of WWII buffs have heard the story many times, this is for the small minority who...
Introduction The case of William Joyce must be one of the most famous treason trials in British legal history. Due to the legal issues...
[IMG] "Young man, you did a fine thing to give up your film career to fight for your country. Mark you, had you not done so − it would have been...
The Doolittle Raid on Japan in April 1942 demolished the Japanese military's perception that their homeland was immune from air attack. They...
Eric Bogle's song, variously called William McBride, No Man's Land and the Green Fields of France is being developed as a feature film called The...
Business Men versus V-Boats AN auxiliary squadron of the R.A.F. Coastal Command, whose job is to escort shipping convoys, is achieving great...
All through the 1930s, the United States had struggled to free itself from the Depression. Despite the suffering and hardship of war, the country...
Many nations have contributed to the development of the submarine but Germany seemed predestined to make more of its potential than any other...
Latest News Reports from 23rd August 1940 New York Backs R.A.F. ON August 9 and 12, the days following the great aerial battles in the...
"We Never Closed" was the proud boast of London's tiny Windmill Theatre a West End show place that stayed open through the worst of the Blitz....
For nearly a year, between summer 1940 and spring 1941, the British were subjected to a sustained aerial assault. Gradually, however, people got...
Between December 1937 and March 1938 one of the worst massacres in modern times took place. Japanese troops captured the Chinese city of Nanking...
She was named Mildred Elizabeth Sisk when she was born in Portland, Maine, on November 29, 1900. Her parents, Vincent Sisk and Mae Hewitson Sisk,...
There is a reason it was called a world war. Besides the major powers involved, numerous lesser countries were caught up in the global struggle...
"The Best Tank in the World" [IMG] Since Ukraine was the center of heavy industry in the USSR in the 1930s it produced much of the...