Nicholas Winton, organized a rescue operation that brought approximately 669 children, mostly Jewish, from Czechoslovakia to safety in Great Britain before the outbreak of World War Ii. Nicholas Winton was born Nicholas Wertheimer on May 19, 1909, in West Hampstead, England, and baptized as a member of the Anglican Church by decision of his parents who… Read more »

Friedrich Guggenberger, born 02-03-1915 in Munich, began his U-boat career in October 1939 with the usual training. His first U-boat was U-28 under the command of Knights Cross, holder Günther Kuhnke . During the autumn of 1940 Guggenberger took over U-28  and commanded the boat for a few months in a training flotilla.Kuhnke died age 78 on 11-10-1990 in Schortens. In… Read more »

Waffen SS Gruppenführer Max Simon, commander of the XIII SS Army Corps, ordered the execution of farmer and fireman Friedrich Hanselmann, fifty years old, who’s son had been killed in Russia and who’s second son was serving in an antiaircraft unit in Nuremberg , the sixty four years old Leonhard Gackstatter, a respected mayor who held the post… Read more »

After high school graduation, Kenje Ogata  born 01 June 1919 in Gary, Indiana, worked in the plating room at National Manufacturing. He learned to fly airplanes through the civilian pilot training program. The day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Kenje boarded a train to Chicago to enlist in the United States Army Air Corps. Because… Read more »

After the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines fell to the Japanese in April 1942, a cadre of Army and Navy nurses became the largest group of American women ever captured and imprisoned by an army. Malnourished, injured and ill, these nurses—all 77 of them—not only survived until their subsequent liberation by U.S. forces but also… Read more »

Ju-87 (“Stuck”) – the most famous German dive-bomber of World War II. It was manufactured from 1935 It was one of the most reliable, robust and powerful fighting machines Luftwaffe. Speed, agility, four machine guns, including in the rear hemisphere, making it difficult to target for fighters. Ju-87 had a high precision bombing in nearly… Read more »

The Soviet Union was made after ‘annexing’ many other other nationalities. These countries, if one may call them so, were sick of Josef Stalin‘s Russia. And when the Germans walked  into the Soviet Union in 1941, many people from these nationalities joined them against Russia. SOVIET FIGHTERS AGAINST RUSSIA. It is not known when and… Read more »

Many think that Stalingrad was the turning point of the Second World War. But the moment in the war that began the decline of Nazi Germany was that one winter day in Russia in 1941 when Josef Stalin paced the platform of Moscow station for some time and then did not climb aboard a train… Read more »

The Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger I was a heavy tank of World War II, developed by Nazi Germany. Originally developed under the name of Pzkw VI Ausf. H after a request by the OKW (High Command of the Army), the resulting project emerged the Elefant, the Sd. Kfz 181 Tiger I and, later, the Tiger II… Read more »

The Tuskegee Airmen  is the popular name of a group of African American military pilots (fighter and bomber) who fought in World War II. Officially, they formed the 332nd Fighter Group  and the 477th Bombardment Group  of the United States Army Air Forces. The name also applies to the navigators, bombardiers, mechanics, instructors, crew chiefs, nurses, cooks… Read more »