WWI Flying Ace Baron von Richtoven: Everything in The Sky Belongs to Me
World War I claims so many “firsts” that it’s a challenge to tally all of the ways in which the first global war altered the twentieth century. But an easy…
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Story behind a famous Stalingrad photograph
It’s an image you have seen thousands of times while searching or viewing media from the Battle of Stalingrad. However do you know who this officer is? And why one…
INTERVIEW: 'Oder Front' series Author A. Stephan Hamilton
‘Oder Front’ author A. Stephan Hamilton takes on the ultimate researcher’s challenge – Berlin during the chaotic final months of the Second World War. Here, we take a closer look…
WATCH: RSC 1917 – France’s WW1 Semiauto Rifle
Did you know that the French Army issued more than 80,000 semiautomatic rifles during WWI? They had been experimenting with a great many semiauto designs before the war, and in…
Otto Funk and his unit in Normandy: Now & Then
You’ve probably seen one of the most famous photographs taken in Normandy, 1944, already that show the young Waffen-SS soldier Otto Funk with a ‘Thousand Yard Stare’. Funk was only…
Foy, Belgium in 1945 – Then & Now with Easy Company
In the wood behind this monument, on 18 December 1944 “E” Company of the 506th P.I.R. 101st Airborne division U.S. Army dug their foxholes in the Bois Jacques Woods as…
This American comedy legend defused land mines in WWII
Long before he was making everyone laugh with classic films like “Blazing Saddles” and “Spaceballs,” comedy legend Mel Brooks was defusing land mines in World War II. After graduating high school in 1944,…
Last Hurrah of the Surface Kriegsmarine – Battle of Barents Sea
Painting of the Battle of the Barents Sea, World War II. The ship depicted is the German destroyer Friedrich Eckoldt. (Credits: Irwin J. Kappes via Wikimedia) “Contrary to the operational…
TV Producer Norman Lear Reflects on WWII Service
TV producer Norman Lear, 93, best known for iconic American sitcoms All in the Family and The Jeffersons, talks about his service as an air force pilot during World War…
