Since starting wwiiafterwwii, I receive from time to time suggestions for topics. These are wide-ranging but two in particular seem very popular: WWII weapons in the Vietnam War, which has been touched on several times; and a general question of how the world "cleaned up" WWII battlefields after the war. For the latter, I was…
The StG-44 assault rifle was probably the most advanced German infantry firearm of WWII. Surprisingly, some of these weapons ended up on the continent of Africa after WWII. (Top: A soldier of the 28th Waffen-SS division "Wallonien" with a StG-44 during WWII. Bottom: A female Somali guerrilla with a StG-44 in 1977 during the Ogaden…
These Video Images Are From The Kingman, Arizona Aviation Graveyard (1947- 1948). It’s called ‘The Treasured Collection Of Heartbreaking Photos’. It’s A
Photos of hundreds of buildings torn down in Leicester after World War Two are published online.
(part two of a three-part series) USS Tennessee (BB-43) Commissioned in 1920, USS Tennessee was the leadship of a two-vessel class, the other being USS California. (USS Tennessee before WWII.) The attack USS Tennessee was at station F-6, inboard of USS West Virginia and ahead of USS Arizona. USS Tennessee was struck by two bombs. The…
One of them shot over 1,500 compatriots, another spearheaded a retail fraud involving top officials, and the third one poisoned over a dozen people...
Waterloo and Westminster bridges were closed before the unexploded device was towed away for safe disposal, while Westminster Tube station shut and river traffic halted after it was dredged up.
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Step into a world of nostalgia and refreshment with this classic Coca-Cola advertisement. Relive the timeless charm and joy that this iconic brand brings to every moment.
In his book, which has just won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History, Keith Lowe describes a land with no governments, schools, banks or shops, where rape was rampant and women prostituted themselves for food. Flying in the face of usual post-WWII narratives, Lowe sheds light on a complex history.
★ Army General Petrov Ivan Efimovich (1945, after WWII).
SpaceX had Ripley. Now Boeing has Rosie.
Warsaw. Capital of Poland after WWII and today. #Poland #Warsaw #WWII #WorldWarTwo
Precious artworks including Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa returned to the Louvre in Paris after being stashed away during the Second World War in dusty chateaus deep in the French countryside.
Saying they felt a “deep sense of ethical responsibility for a past tragedy,” executives from Mitsubishi Materials gave an unprecedented apology Sunday to a 94-year-old U.S. prisoner of war for...
Seventy years ago today, Nazi Germany surrendered to Allied forces. Photographer Jonathan Andrews visits the sites that were once Nazi defenses.
The popular BBC TV drama ‘Close to the Enemy’ tells the story of a fictitious Nazi engineer recruited to work for the RAF in the aftermath of the Second World War. We look at several real-life cases where German scientists and engineers...
New black and white photos show the many faces of the groups that arrived to fill Britain's labour market after WWII from all over the world - from the Caribbean to India to Somalia.
