CLEVELAND - A member of the Ohio Military Historical Society has just announced an unbelievable announcement.
Speaking before the monthly meeting of the OMHS, Executive Director Mervin W. Kiddlefuddle, 61, stated that a couple of scuba divers from...
UK intelligence agency GCHQ has spent weeks attempting to decipher a secret WWII message found on a dead pigeons leg that was discovered up a chimney in leafy Surrey.
After initially appealing to the public for help they've finally cracked it them...
German is an language spoken by over 80 million people. There have been many great people throughout history who have spoken it.
Learning German can allow you to understand anyone from Wankel to Seimens, from Kahn to Kant. From Bach to the Fuhrer.
It is an elegant but guttural language, which is intended to be shouted angrily in a shrill voice.
One important thing to remember is that all...
The golden age of the battleship was undoubtedly World War II. Although first used in the 1800s, initial models were pulled by dolphins, who quickly tired. Thankfully the invention of the steam engine soon led to vastly increased power and size of the ships. By the time WW2 arrived, these iron titans of the sea were ready to cock-slap each other out of the water with great vigour, ultimately decid...
Armed Response Units surrounded a number of London addresses in the early hours of yesterday morning. In a series of dramatic dawn raids, several high ranking members of staff, believed to be linked to several popular British tabloids, were arrested...
There are many amazing untold tales of World War II. Perhaps one of the most extraordinary is that of the Airborne Lions, a British parachute regiment commanded by Field Marshal Montgomery. They only flew one mission before they were disbanded, but that mission was to prove critical to the war's outcome.
The idea for the mission came from Churchill himself, who believed that air-dropping a numb...
Virginia - At attempt to regulate the internet went awry today when the official order to shut down the internet for the ninety-nine percent failed to make it past the hotel firewall, according to our hotel mole at the scene, Ms. Kay Sparks.
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This month we hear how George played an important role in keeping up moral during the Blitz.
"We was darn the underground station in Bethnal Green. The misses said we would be safe from the Bosh and there might be some entertainment. Abart ten at night, this George Formby bloke turns up and starts wiv all that "Ow do!" Me misses threw herself on the live rails. By the time I jumped, so many p...
Paris France: French historians and engineers at the Montmartre Institute of Technology (MIT) are perusing a cache of documents pertaining to the Maginot Line that was found by a German tourist visiting one of the restored sites.
The Maginot Lin...
Furious exchanges today in the Reichstag as Chancellor Hitler declared confidently that taking Stalingrad would not be a problem.
Herr Hitler responded to criticism of his plan to subjugate the Russian City in pursuit of control of the vast mineral wealth of the Caucasus by saying that the assault on the beleaguered city would reap dividends, and thus aid the war effort.
Plus, it would be on...
This week we will be hearing from Gracies fans and how she changed their lives.
"I remember being in a funk hole just outside Calais, we had been bombarded by the Germans for fifteen hours and most of us were near the point of giving in. Suddenly, a voice floated across the town toward us, it was Gracie Fields singing "Sally" I listened for two minutes and decided to surrender, pleading with th...
A box of secret documents from WW2 were discovered this week in a long-forgotten chill-out room at the Ministry of Defence in London. The documents detail British weapons research during the war, and are so unbelievable that they could almost have been invented for a Channel 5 documentary. A Channel 5 documentary on them will be aired later this week.
Many of the planned weapons never came to f...
Berlin, Germany: Germany and France, desperate to find money to save the European Union from bankruptcy, are about to declare war upon each other. The war will be staged to bring in the Americans to, as usual, save France and flood the European count...
PARIS - (Rooters) A company of soldiers, in which I was embedded, invaded Paris today. Equipped with purified-aspartame spray throwers we managed to drive the Germans back to Germany. The German front is now quiet.
In order to drive all the...
Downing Street is in a flap as it can not find the traditional Homburg had for the Prime Minister's visit to the German Chancellery on Friday.
For the traditional exchange of gifts when leaders meet, Cameron has chosen a boxed set of ''Alo 'Alo 'a...
A ceremony to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour took a disastrous turn this afternoon, when an aeroplane from Japan containing dignitaries due to attend the event crash landed into the docks.
A group of vete...
In a move which has caused marginally less outrage than the 1939 invasion of Poland, the German government has announced its intention to tax compensation payments made to surviving ex-slave labourers, who were forced from their homes to work for the...
The very earth itself shook, shuddered and trembled as it was rent virtually asunder under the incredible violence of a massive artillery bombardment, as the allied infantrymen swarmed up the ridge at dead of night.
Searchlight beams criss-crossed the enveloping darkness, ineffectively trying to illuminate the nearby German positions, by bouncing the light back off the low cloud cover, as artil...