After a long discussion, we decided to start making documentaries on the modern wars, and the first one we are going to cover ...
Prepare to have your mind blown.” Thus concludes fantasy author Joshua Palmatier’s introduction to “Combat Monsters,” a ...
Margery Hop Wong last saw her older brother Sgt. Yuen Hop in 1943. He was a soldier missing in action, until researchers ...
A German U-boat sunk the USAT Dorchester on Feb. 3, 1943, in the North Atlantic Ocean, killing 672 of the 902 servicemen, ...
served as a signaller in the Second World War and played an important part in keeping his “wireless village” on the air in the Burma Campaign. In November 1944, Newland was at 14th Army HQ at ...
A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the ...
The Maschinengewehr 42, or more commonly, the MG 42 was Germany’s final development of their long-standing “universal machine ...
Those who had survived the fighting spent the rest of the war as prisoners. For the next three years they were used for labour, most of them working on the infamous Thai-Burma Railway ... 6th Division ...
It mostly comprised Indian prisoners of war (PoWs) captured by the Japanese during their Southeast Asia campaign. 2. Bose arrived in Singapore in July 1943 and took charge of ... The INA crossed the ...
A German submarine torpedoed the "Vital de Oliveira" in July 1944, killing some 100 of the 270 crew members onboard ...
One of the most inspiring anti-Nazi German heroes of World War 2 was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor who vocally condemned Adolf Hitler’s euthanasia program and genocidal persecution of ...