On Sunday morning, March 18, 1945, under an unusually clear sky, the U.S. Eighth Air Force mounted one of its largest air raids against Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. The target was Berlin, capital of the Nazi regime. More than 1,300 heavy bombers from the Eighth Air Force, escorted by more than 600 fighter planes, departed […]
The Battle of Midway and Torpedo Squadron 8 – one of the first time when camera was in the war – The Battle of Midway On June 4, 1942, the Japanese Imperial Navy attacked United States forces on the island of Midway. With four Japanese aircraft carriers sunk by the conclusion of the conflict, the […]
How most powerful German ship was sunk The Bismarck, probably Germany’s most famous battleship in World War Two, was sunk on May 27th 1941. The Bismarck had already sunk HMS Hood before being sunk herself. For many, the end of the Hood and Bismarck symbolised the end of the time when battleships were the […]
Field Marshal Erwin led the vaunted German Afrika Korps in the desert during World War II and committed suicide after being implicated in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler. Born on November 15, 1891, in Heidenheim, Germany, Erwin Rommel was a hero of World War I, receiving the Pour le Mérite, or Blue Max, […]
Joan M. “Barc” Barclay-Drummond, speaks about bravery and determination to help Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Women had massive impact and role in determination of WWII… Testimony of Joan M. Barclay can be found on “The project memory” which represents collection of veteran stories and much more. “And I wanted to do my best, I […]
Biggest tank battle in the history In the morning, 5. July 1943, explosions lit up the Russian sky and the earth shook to a huge bombardment. As the sun rose, waves of hundreds German panzers began rolling across fields of sunflowers and wheat. The greatest tank battle in history was underway. The Battle […]
Unusual friendship… On December 20, 1943, American B-17 bomber pilot Charlie Brown and crew attempted to bomb an aircraft production facility in Bremen, Germany. The factory was surrounded by 250 anti-aircraft guns, which damaged Brown’s B-17, Ye Olde Pub, disabling two engines and forcing the plane out of formation. The damaged aircraft was set upon […]
A small group of WWII Norwegian commandos are skiing away from an Arctic Nazi base with 3,000 German soldiers on them. Norwegians just set off explosive charges inside the aforementioned base, ruining Germany’s chances of producing nuclear weapons. So, Adolf Hitler could produce nuclear bomb if it wasn’t this situation. During Operation Gunnerside in […]
”Park the bloody thing outside my front door. Do you understand?” The heroic WWII mission to capture a deadly Tiger Tank from the Germans was revealed for the first time in 2012. “Major!” barked Winston Churchill to young military engineer. “I want you to go and catch me a Tiger”. I want you to bring […]
In the mid 1930s it became clear that only two main models of tanks will be kept in service of the British army-an infantry tank and a cruiser tank, which was intended to exploit breakthroughs and make forays deep into enemy territory. The pilot model of the first cruiser tank was ready in 1936 […]
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