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BBC2 to air the German drama series – Our Mothers our Fathers – Generation War
The German Band of Brothers has been bought by the BBC. The Second World War drama caused national debate about the role a normal citizen had in the conflict. Our Mothers, Our Fathers, Generation War...
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The Channel Dash, codenamed Operation Cerberus by the Germans
The Channel Dash, (codenamed Operation Cerberus by the Germans), was a major naval engagement during World War II in which a German Kriegsmarine squadron consisting of both Scharnhorst-class...
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Destruction of German Vehicles in WWII
Based on a request by the Headquarters ETOUSA, Ninth Army compiled a list of German combat vehicles destroyed by the army from the beginning of hostilities until the cessation of hostilities in the...
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Too horrible to speak of: Details of pilot’s death little known, until now
In September 1946 Helen Rogers received a letter from the federal War Department with new details about the death two years earlier of her husband, an Army bomber pilot. The letter explained that...
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Operation Postmaster: In 1941 the British Admiralty started receiving reports...
Operation Postmaster was a British operation conducted on the Spanish island of Fernando Po, now known as Bioko, off West Africa in the Gulf of Guinea, during the Second World War. The mission was...
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Did the Nazi’s hid Dachau Concentration camp gold near an Austrian lake?
A US Treasure hunter believes the Nazi gold was hidden in the Luenersee (Luener lake) near the German / Austrian border. Did the Nazi’s really bury treasure in the Voralberg region? The American...
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Notes for officers on Tiger tanks in the Battle of Florence
The January 1945 issue of the Intelligence Bulletin contained a five page report on the German Tiger tanks encountered by New Zealand troops in the fighting around Florence, Italy. Printed by the...
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Forbidden Ground
La France, 1916. Après une charge échouée sur les tranchées allemandes, un groupe de soldats britanniques se retrouvent coincés face aux lignes allemandes durant la première grande guerre… France,...
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Crete: Cemetery holds remains of German Soldiers killed there during WWII
Easily obscured by the ancient history of this rocky Greek isle is a more recent chapter being hashed out by the families of those who lived it. It can be felt at a small war cemetery in the coastal...
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BREAKING! Wreck of German Bomber discovered in Polish Swamp
A German Heinkel He 111 bomber has been discovered in a swamp in Poland where it crashed in 1944, the polish news site grunwald.wm.pl reports Members of the Association of History and Exploration...
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German views on sniping
The following U.S. military report on German sniping during WWII was originally published in Tactical and Technical Trends, No. 29, July 15, 1943. A German source reports the following notes dealing...
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The Alsos Mission: Allied efforts to gather data on German nuclear fission...
British and American members of the Alsos Mission dismantle the experimental nuclear reactor that German scientists had built as part of the German nuclear energy project in Haigerloch The Alsos...
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Canada at War: The Falaise Gap
Operation Totalize On August 8th, Operation Totalize began when the British/Canadian broke out from the south of Caen, and headed for Falaise. Canadian units of the 28th Armoured Regiment, 4th...
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The 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment at Bastogne, December 1944
Second Battalion 501 PIR at Bizory, Dec 1944 PREPARED BY: MAJOR GARY F. EVANS SPECIALIST FIVE MICHAEL R. FISCHER 50th MILITARY HISTORY DETACHMENT BOZEMAN, MONTANA 59715 22 JUNE 1972 [NOTE: This...
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Q: How many cows does it take to build a Zeppelin? A: 250,000
The German high command planned to bring Britain to its knees during the First World War by issuing a ban on the eating of sausages, film researchers have discovered. Cow intestines used to make...
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Canada at War: The Battle of Ortona
For the Canadians, Ortona was the bloodiest battle of the Italian Campaign to date. The once pisturesque ancient village on the Adriatic coast has been reduce to rubble. Canadian and German troops...
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The Children of Bjelaja-Zerkow where an Oberstleutnant tried, in vain, to...
A horrid story from August 1941 at Bjelaja-Zerkow in German occupied Soviet territory. In this town the SS murdered as many as nine hundred Jewish residents. That is nightmarish enough, of course,...
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Mauser C96 semi-automatic pistol
The Mauser C96 (Construktion 96) is a semi-automatic pistol that was originally produced by German arms manufacturer Mauser from 1896 to 1937.Unlicensed copies of the gun were also manufactured in...
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Operation Paula: Luftwaffe offensive operation to destroy the French Air Force
Unternehmen Paula (Undertaking or Operation Paula) is the German codename given for the Second World War Luftwaffe offensive operation to destroy the remaining units of the Armée de l’Air (ALA), or...
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Canada at War: The Battle of the Scheldt
The Allied forces, including the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division, and the 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade of the First Canadian Army, landed on the beaches of Normandy, France on D-Day, June 6, 1944. As...
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