The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date. From July 1940 coastal shipping convoys ...
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In the summer of 1947 a group of American designers visited England, Czechoslovakia and Poland to evaluate the progress of post-war reconstruction. The photos are from their visit in August of 1947 to view the progress in ...
They always came at night, swooping down low on their terrorised targets under the cover of darkness. They were called Night Witches, and they were highly effective at what they did, even though the wooden craft ...
The Maunsell Sea Forts were small fortified towers built in the Thames and Mersey estuaries during the Second World War to help defend the United Kingdom. They were named after their designer, Guy Maunsell. The forts ...
Every now and again, God throws on this planet a human being who is so friggin’ crazy and whose exploits are so outlandish that it’s hard to believe he could have ever really walked on this ...
June 6th, the 68th anniversary of the successful 1944 Allied invasion of France. Several operations were combined to carry out the largest amphibious invasion in history – over 160,000 troops landed on June 6th, assisted by ...
The following pictures were published in the Russian newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta in November 2010. They are the impressive work of Russian pilot Sergey Larenkov. Sergey calls the photo collection “The Ghosts of World War II’s Past”. Originally things started ...
These amazing pictures show life in the Russian services during World War 2. The Russian services – the army, navy and the airforce operated predominantly in Eastern Europe after they were invaded by Germany in 1941. ...
The colour pictures below taken by photographer Frank Scherschel show in vivid colour the preparation for the D-Day invasion in June 1944, and the events in France following the landings on June 6th. ...
The 2001 war film Enemy at the Gates had a distinctly British cast, including Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Bob Hoskins and Rachel Weisz, but the story it told is that of a Russian sniper and war ...
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