World War Two

The Forgotten Revenge for Pearl Harbor – Lae-Salamaua 1942

Revenge for Pearl Harbor On the 10 March 1942, the United States Navy struck the Japanese landing site in New[…]

The Japanese B-17 Squadron Find out how the Japanese obtained American B-17s and how they used them. Disclaimer: All opinions[…]

Ambush of the Irish Guards On the 17 September 1944, Operation Market Garden begun; the largest Airborne assault in History.[…]

Captain Winkle Brown Captain Eric Melrose “Winkle” Brown, CBE, DSC, AFC, Hon FRAeS, RN was a British Royal Navy officer[…]

WW2 – Deception Operation Mincemeat was a successful British deception operation of the Second World War to disguise the 1943[…]

German Military Underground Hospital Guernsey’s World War 2 German Military Underground Hospital is the largest World War 2 tunnel complex[…]

Oskar Schindler Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist and a member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving[…]

German Bf 109s Why did the Swiss Air Force have German Messerschmitt Bf 109s and how did its neutrality during[…]

Secret Fuze Dogfights tend to overshadow our conception of aerial warfare yet AA guns also play a big role. Lets[…]

Operation Market Garden – 75th Commemoration The 101st Airborne Division takes part in the annual Commemoration Ceremony in Son en[…]