WORLD WAR I & II HISTORY

Masters of the Air: The Long-Awaited Follow-Up to Steven Spielberg’s ‘Band of Brothers’

“In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I’m treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, ‘Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?’ ‘No,’ I answered, ‘but I served in a company of heroes.‘” Band Of Brothers (TV Miniseires 2001) After more than two decades in the making, “Masters of the Air,” a World War II miniseries developed by director Steven Spielberg and actor Tom Hanks, has unveiled some exciting news with the release of the trailer and official premiere date: January 26th, 2024. This highly anticipated series serves as the long-awaited follow-up to the duo’s previous…

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The Battle for Castle Itter: Americans, Germans, and French, Oh My!

In today’s post I am thrilled to share an articles about WWII titled Americans, Germans, and French, Oh my! The Strange Battle For Castle Itter by our guest Thomas Richardson. He is an historian and writer who publishes on his own blog titled History Here And Now and has been featured here previously. Richardson post dives right into a very strange and bizarre moment in WWII where Americans and Germans actually sided with each other to fight unrelenting Nazis forces. Yes, you heard that right! How is that possible? Battle for Castle Itter is quite the unique twist as far…

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Drought In Italy Unearths Lost Shipwreck From World War Two

A stunning historic shipwreck from WWII has surfaced along a massive river for the first time after one of the longest droughts in Italian history occurs as summer begins. The ship was found in a nature reserve in Gualtieri, a small town located on the banks of Po in Emilia-Romagna. This is all started and due to the drought that allowed the river to dry up in March. The lack of rain in Italy this dry season has also been breaking historic records. Italy went an unprecedent amount of days without rain. Meuccio Berselli, Secretary-General of the Po River Basin…

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Invasion of Normandy [1944]: Marie-Louise Osmont Witnesses Everything!

“Shells are exploding everywhere, and not far away, with short moments of calm; we take advantage to run… we return with hearts pounding to burrow into the trench. Each time a shell hisses by too low, I cling to the back of the cook’s helper, it makes me feel a little secure, and he turns around with a smile. The fact is that we’re all afraid.” The invasion of Normandy occurred on June 6th, 1944 and was codenamed Operation Overlord. The Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. During the chaos, Marie…

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Book Release – Above The Reich Written by Colin Heaton & Anne-Marie Lewis

In today’s blog post, I will be discussing and reviewing a new book being released today on June 8th, 2021 called Above The Reich by Colin Heaton & Anne-Marie Lewis. I was lucky enough to receive a pre-released copy for free from Random Penguin House agency Dutton Caliber for an honest review. The book was very enlightening and informative. To start my review off I want to repeat the words in the title. They go “Deadly Dogfights, Blistering Bombing Raids, and Other War Stories from the Greatest American Air Heroes of World War II, in Their Own Words” and that…

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Shot Down Over France – The Story Of U.S Flight Officer Charles Yeager (March 5th, 1944)

Strapped into his P-51 fighter, Charles Yeager was ready for his mission to attack targets in the Bordeaux area of France. He was twenty-one years old and already had three months’ experience in combat managing to shoot down two German aircraft. On this day his luck was to change. He occupied the “tail end Charlie” position of his four-plane flight. On the Morning of March 5th, 1944, Yeager and his crew set out for their mission. All seemed to go well at first until the approached their main targets. They were taken by surprised when three German FW 190 fighters…

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The Gestapo’s Enemy Number One╽ Life Story of Nancy Wake – Code Name The White Mouse

Blessed with a cunning ability of outsmarting the Germans and defying their constant traps at every single turn during the second world war, the Gestapo dubbed her “the white mouse”. The actual name of this fearless yet charming woman was Nancy Wake, a New Zealand born journalist who played a critical role in saving lives and never backing down. Nancy Wake learned in the early days leading up to the war, that some things just weren’t right and was quick to see that she didn’t approve of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party’s rise. While working for the Hearst newspaper,…

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WWII History ╽The Rosies The Riveter Memoirs – When Everything Changed Tell All!

WWII changed lives and history forever, the war world was a time of death, destruction, and evil; however, it was also a time that brought people together in ways never imaginable. Everyone had to step up and do their part. Many chose to fight, nurse, and build. People showed strength and tragedy brought communities closer than ever before. A critical part of this was the need for equipment, vehicles, weapons, and gear. A war cannot be fought and won without these things. It became crucial to have factories provide what the military needed but most able-bodied men were away fighting.…

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WWI Eyewitness Account ╽Inside The American Ambulance Service 1914

In the summer of 1914, The U.S implemented a volunteer ambulance service in France at the beginning of WWI. The goal was to assist those injured outside of Paris in an American hospital. German troops had been storming France all summer long and those being wounded on the front lines needed transportation to receive medical care. In today’s post we will be following the experiences of British poet John Masefield who served in the American Ambulance Field Service. At this point, the U.S had not entered the war; however, Over two-thousand volunteers operated on various fronts throughout France, Italy, Greece,…

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A Royal Murder ╽The Assassination Of Archduke Ferninand & His Wife, The Duchess!

The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg was the last straw that would set of a chain of events leading many countries to declare war and begin the first world war in history. WWI or the “Great War” had over a hundred countries involved in the conflict during its climax between 1914-1918. In today’s post I will be sharing different eyewitness accounts of the assassination from two people that were there that day, including one of the co-conspirators of the fatal assassin whose bullets killed the royal couple. This took place on June 28th,…

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