Adolf Hitler was the main person behind the cause of second world war.Due to his cruelty & wish to capture countries,second world war broke out.Do...
On June 28 1914,Archduke Franz Ferdinand,heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne was assassinated by a Bosnian Serb citizen.History tells that this is...
I'm off to Normandy next week for a few days and wondered if anyone has any ideas on where to go and what to see. I last visited this area 10...
This song was written by Hamish Henderson of the 51st Highlanders, the man who formally accepted the the Axis' surrender of Italy from Marshal...
My son is doing a report on WW2 and the countries involved. I found this fact that I thought was interesting and was wondering if anyone on here...
On the moonlit night of 14 November 1940 the old city of Coventry was destroyed and a new word was invented 'Coventration'. Over 500 German...
Have any of you had a chance to see Flags of Our Father or Letters From Iwo Jima? They were both great films but the first is definitely more...
Following the German collapses in North Africa and at Stalingrad, partisan activity in almost the whole of Europe began to be much more...
The north spires of Bayeux Cathedral, inspired by Chartres, and the central tower completed in two stages in 1486 and 1858, rise over the city....
Army: 1st Battalion, the Duke o/Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment DATE OF Bravery: 8 October 1944 Gazetted: 4 January 1945 Richard Burton...
Does anyone play War Games on PC. I play 3 now - War in the Pacific : The Struggle against Japan 1941 - 1945. This is an excellent depiction...
On Friday September first 1939, I and many hundreds of children were assembled at Napier Rd School in East Ham and marched along the High Street...
I grew up associating the swastika with Nazi Germany, so I was initially surprised to see one in rendered metal on the gates of a Buddhist...
The Red Army used two types of antitank rifle during World War II, both of them very distinctive for they were long and powerful rifles that both...
On 8 June, Corporal Gunton, and other Royal Engineers posted to No.32 Graves Concentration Unit in January 1944, arrived in Bayeux to begin taping...
The 15-cm (5.9-in) German artillery rockets were the mainstay of the large number of German army Nebelwerfer (literally smoke-throwing) units,...
Josef 'Sepp' Dietrich was born on 28 May 1892 in Hawangen, Bavaria. He spent some time as a trainee hotelier before joining the Bavarian Army as...
Welcome raine9471! to war44 forums please introduce yourself by telling us where you are from, your interests in WWII or just History and how you...
Many think of Poland in terms of the nation's part in serving example as the first nation to fall victim to the Nazi regime but Polish partisan...
As was the case in many other fields of advanced experimentation, the Germans only toyed with adapting rockets for launch from a submerged U-boat....