Mission 760: The Largest Air Strike of the War: With Joost de Raaf, Paul Woodadge. Mission 760: The Largest Air Strike of the War Part of 8th Air Force Week 2 on WW2TV With Joost de Raaf On December 24, 1944 the 8th Air Force launched Mission 760, the la
The Secret History of WW2: With Bill Fellows, Chris Wilson, Swaylee Loughnane, Chris Cugowski. The Secret History of World War II unearths some incredible stories, homing in on key events that took place during the second World War. From the secrets behi
On the 31st August 1944 he found himself as a platoon commander during an attack on the German’s ‘Gothic line’ at Monte Gridolfo in Italy during Operation Olive (the British Eighth Army attacked on the Adriatic coast along a 50 kilometre front aiming to break through to the Po Vally)....
Our movie treat – and it truly was a treat – tonight wasDarkest Hour, the lesser known story of Britain’s darkest hour in May 1940 when all appeared lost, the German juggernaut unstoppable and poised to cross the Channel. When surrender, at best, negotiated terms, was entirely on the ...
The 182d General Hospital was also made thePrison Hospitalfor ALL United States Army Prisoners in the Western Base Section, per Letter,7 June 1944(also included were German PWs who were cared for during 4 months). All patients treated by the unit were either received by ambulance or Hospital...
During Gable’s first combat mission, flak from ground defenses took out one of the plane’s four engines and its stabilizer. More unnervingly, after delivering the plane’s payload, a German’s 20mm shell pierced the center of the plane, with the corner of the shell passing through the ...
Many of you have watched the WWII movies depicting the combats who took place during the D-DAY June 6, 1944. It is with the same conditions that we bring you into the past for few days. This experience will be one and only who will create your best memories. ...
Verloren in Klessin(English:Lost in Klessin) will show the historical events that took place near the river Oder in February and March, 1945. While the Russian Army moved closer towards German soil and Berlin, the German forces were drawn to Klessin, a small village located not far from ...
Seems that the only thing running that day was us. We ran all over the place, dragging tents, poles and ropes while others dug foxholes. These came in handy on the first night and almost every night in our stay here. Every evening at 11 o’clock, one lone German plane would fly ove...
Hitler was wounded in the leg by a shell blast. Sent to convalesce in the Lazarett Beelitz, near Berlin, he returned to his old unit by February 1917. Among the German wounded in the Ypres Salient in Belgium on 14-10-1918, is Corporal Adolf Hitler, temporarily blinded by a British ga...