World War Two

The Secret German Bases Dropped into the English Channel

Secret German Bases Planning for war requires proper consideration of supporting medical services and rescue protocols. As Germany prepared to[…]

Rocket Kamikazes! During the Battle of Okinawa in 1945, the Japanese unleashed massed Kamikaze attacks, including a fearsome new rocket-propelled[…]

The DUKW The DUKW (colloquially known as Duck) is a six-wheel-drive amphibious modification of the 2½-ton CCKW trucks used by[…]

D-Day in Colour The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of[…]

P 38 Lightning The Lockheed P-38 Lightning is a World War II–era American piston-engined fighter aircraft. Developed for the United[…]

Best German WW2 General I regularly get asked who I consider the best German General of World War 2 or[…]

Why Germany Lost WW2 Oil was in desperately short supply for the Axis powers in WW2. One historian describes it[…]

Artillery Tactics & Combat German Artillery Tactics in World War 2 are a rather obscure subject, very little is written[…]

Kettenkrad and Springer Here David Willey examines two WW2 German tracked vehicles. The first is the Sd.Kfz. 2, better known[…]

War Cemetery Ysselsteyn It’s the biggest, and also the only German War cemetery in the Netherlands with over 31.598 graves![…]