In the much threatened invasion of Britain Hitler may be expected to use every means fair or foul, orthodox and altogether novel which may seem to...
After the clear channel flight, the skies had clouded over Normandy. Pilots carrying Hinchliff's unit, the 507th Regiment of the 82nd, had to take...
The American public largely ignored the war crimes trials in Tokyo and throughout Asia in 1946-1948. Unlike the charismatic Nazi leadership, who...
[IMG] A warning has just been given that enemy aircraft have been sighted, and the RAF fighter pilots dash for their planes to take up the...
In one of the workshops of the Army Railway Schools recruits in training for the Railway section of the Royal Engineers are dismantling a...
In this picture diagram, it shows the method of operation or the Bren gun; the firing and recoil mechanism is also illustrated in the inset...
[IMG] The Cafe Gondree today
Military operations are thick with codenames, acronyms and nicknames that need explaining to the layman. Unfortunately, the written history of...
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...
At the end of the Second World War, there were several hundred provisional cemeteries. 24 of which were in France laid out by the American Grave's...
Bernard Law, Montgomery (1887-1976) was born in London, from an Ulster family, in 1887. He graduated from the Royal Military Academy of Sandhurst...
June, 1944 A sensation was caused in Allied Headquarters when reports came through that a considerable number of Canadian soldiers were shot...
Himmler, Heinrich (1900-1945), German Nazi leader, who was head of the dreaded SS (Schutzstaffel, also called the Blackshirts). Although he was...
History would prove that Churchill was meant to be a wartime Prime Minister, not a peacetime one. After Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich,...