Tag: world war ii
World War II Stories: Afrika Korps’ Last Soldier Surrendered In1985 After 40 Years On The Run
The last soldier surrendered. During World War II around 450,000 German soldiers were imprisoned in 700 camps across the United States. After the war ended,…
World War II Stories: How Fanta Was Created for Nazi Germany
Fanta for Nazi Germany. It’s February 1944 and Berlin is attempting to recover from American aerial bombing. But life and industry continues on the city’s…
World War II Stories – Hitler And The Occult. The People He Killed
Hitler and the occult. The rise of the Nazi regime which led to the occupation of several countries and the extraction and eradication of countless…
World War II Stories: Rare Historical Photographs Of The Dunkirk Evacuation
The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers during World War II from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north…
World War II Stories : The Resistance At Westerplatte
The city of Danzig was home to a lengthy territorial dispute between the Germans and Poles who inhabited it and had been declared a free city by…
World War II Stories: Bomber Plane Captures U-Boat
Bomber plane captures U-Boat. On August 27, 1941, U-boat U-570, captained by Kapitanleutnant Hans-Joachim Rahmlow, surfaced off the coast of Iceland. Almost immediately, it was spotted by James Thompson,…
World War II Stories: WW2 German Ace Stumbled Across A Crippled B-17 And Escorted It Home
WW2 German Ace escorts crippled B-17 home. Warfare is not really a place for humanity, ethics and morals, but the Christmas Truce of WWII was…
World War II Stories: Operation Jericho – A Rescue Mission That Turned Deadly
Operation Jericho was an air raid conducted by the RAF with the goal of freeing the captives of the Nazi-held Amiens prison in France. The…
World War II Stories: The Ready Made British Resistance
The Story The ready-made British resistance. After the disastrous campaign in France in 1940, the remnants of the British Expeditionary Force and the Free French…
World War II Stories: Albert Goering, The Anti-Nazi Brother Of Hermann
War Stories: Albert Goering, The Anti-Nazi Brother Of Hermann Albert Goering was born on 9 March 1895 in the Berlin suburb of Friedenau. He was the fifth child of…
World War II Stories: Bombers Of The Second World War – Capt. Donald Macintosh
Second World War Two bombers. The Lancaster is probably the most famous of all the bombers of the Second World War. According to Capt. Donald…
World War II Stories: The Marine Carrying An Aircraft Machine Gun On Iwo Jima
This is the story of a marine carrying a aircraft machine gun one of Japan’s Volcano Islands called Iwo Jima. He took out over twenty…
World War II Stories: Pearl Harbor – Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
Desperate times call for desperate measures. When Pearl Harbor was hit in a surprise attack at dawn, in 1941, the scattered American forces were pinned…
