This is a series of articles, discoveries, strategies, tactics, weapons, policies, personalities, formations and battles of the Second World War.
This past weekend British artists Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss accompanied and hundreds of volunteers, took rakes and stencils in hand to the …
The Fallen, 9000 Impressions Artists Scraped Onto Normandy Beach Read More »
Not sure what Hitler was thinking that morning. But that evening he must have been shitting. 156,113 men kicked the door to the 3rd Reich …
Tony Bennett served. Demoted by a white racist officer because he had the audacity to invite a black soldier to dine with him. This was …
On the day Rome fell, 8 million GIs were in uniform, and this was a fivefold increase since Pearl Harbor. It included twelve hundred generals …
Shinano (信濃) was an aircraft carrier built by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II, the largest such built up to that time. …
The Imperial Japanese Navy’s Super Carrier, the Shinano, was sunk in 1944 by a Torpedo Read More »
The Fairburn- Sykes Fighting Knife is pointed dagger also called a poignard, and it has a Fencing foil grip developed by Bill Fairburn and …
The Fairburn-Sykes Fighting System. Read More »
World War II ended with the Japanese surrender on September 2nd, 1945. That made it six years and a day long. It involved sixty nations …
More World War II Numbers Read More »
The conference at Yalta was a chance for the inheritors of power after World War II to decide how to govern. It was obviously one …
Germans could see the writing on the wall. They had least holdings and alliances in Romania, Bulgaria, Finland, Belgium, Luxembourg, France and half of …
After World War II, Germany Was Ravaged. Read More »
When Paris was liberated it was a broken city. No gas, no power, no light, streets filled with thieves. There was a soap and …
Paris, After The Liberation. Read More »
More than 1000 V-1 and V-2 Rockets would landed on British soil. The V-2 almost exclusively impacted in London and on the Belgian capitol. …
Odd World War II Facts. Read More »
T 1 Monroe Leaflet Bomb British Air Minister Arthur Harris watched London burn for the roof of his offices on King Charles Street. He …
Incendiary Behavior Read More »
RAF Pummels Essen With Incendiaries British Air Minister Arthur Harris watched London burn for the roof of his offices on King Charles Street. He …
Incendiary Behavior Read More »
Jean De Lattre De Tasingny, French General of the 1st Army 82nd Airborne Division and French Resistance Fighters in France in 1944 The …
The Run-Up to the Capture of Strasbourg. Read More »
1945 England was a deprecated mess. Rubble in the streets. Bombed out architecture with no time to repair, rats over taking the sewer system. …
London During WWII Read More »
Eisenhower came to believe that Bernard Montgomery is a good man to serve under, a difficult man to serve with and an impossible man to …
The French relied on America for logistical support after the Normandy invasion. From pork free rations for Muslim soldiers to French-English dictionaries. Americans were bringing …
US Supplied The French After Normandy Read More »
The Schü-mine 42 (Shoe-mine), or Schützenmine 42, was a German manufactured anti-personnel mine used during World War II. It was a wooden box with a …
The Squander Bug. A Character Created by British Authorities to Remind Brits to Save Everything. Like Smokey the Bear, Except For Recycling. 1945 England …
England in 1945, Was Barely Holding On. Read More »
