Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all of you! Take care of yourself, I'm coming back at the beginning of January.

WW2 U.S. equipement

Wow, some very nice and interesting pictures of WW2 U.S. equipement. Enjoy.

Link here.

It's the hat

Fallschirmjager

Fast post, I didn't check it that much... But there's some nice pictures about the training and the equipements of the Fallschirmjager, or the do it more simple; German paratroopers.

Link here.

Vietnam ZIPPOs

If you like Nam Zippos, here's the place.

Link here.

Johnny Canuck

Probably a canadian version of Captain America, here's the adventures of Johnny Canuck... At least he can pilot a plane.

Link here.

Hitler's Waldo

... Or the German who didn't give a fcuk.

Link here.

Cool Toys

A last post for today... Where design fail.

The Swastika forest

Heard of that? I think it's a brilliant idea, especially because nobody found it until recently...

Link here.

Propaganda

Interesting Top30 propaganda poster... Nothing much to say.

Link here.

Vietnam carricature

News on the march

Some news about the secret coded message found on a dead pigeon in UK.

Link here.

World War One Miners/Tunnellers

Interesting text about tunnellers during the First World War. Kind of remind me the Rats during Vietnam.

Link here.

Youtube

Youtube is full of feature length documentary about history and wars, so I made a little compilation... Two films about secret weapons, and three about Hitler.

Soviet Top Secret Weapons
 
Nazi Secret Weapons

Hitler's Secret Science

Hitler's Bodyguard

Hitler's Children

NatGeo : The Rise of Hitler

Here's the link of the National Geographic documentary The Rise of Hitler. This interesting 90 minutes film also use coloured archives.

Link here.

WWII pigeon message stumps GCHQ decoders

The remains of the bird were found in a chimney in Surrey with a message from World War II attached. Experts at the intelligence agency GCHQ have been struggling to decipher the message since they were provided with it a few weeks ago.

Link here.

Irish soldiers's wills from WWI on internet

The Republic's National Archives will put the wills of 9,000 Irish soldiers who died in the First World War. The documents reveal the last wishes of the soldiers, many of them Ulster men.

Link here.

WWII collector

Interesting thing to follow! This guy have an amazing collection of WWII items related of the Wehrmacht, here's his description.

"I have been a WWII collector for over 20 years. My collection centers around the field equipment, weapons, ordnance and other types of memorabilia relating to the German Wehrmacht. I put this site together in an effort to let other collectors and historians see my collection. So many private collections never see the light of day. I hope you enjoy this site and if you have any questions please feel free to contact me."

Link here.

WWI shotgun

If you have 9000.00$ and live in the US, this one is for you. A Wincherter Model 1897, trench gun, in excellent shape! Look pretty amazing, kind of remind me a gun from the futur, like in Looper.


Link here.

Looking for a WW1 body armor?

Looking for a WW1 body armor?

Link here.

Aircraft nose Art

After watching Memphis Belle, I was looking around to find some plane nose art, and I found this. I wonder how something like this would look on my car?

Link here.

November 11, remembrance day

To remember who give their life in the line of duty... War poem wrttien in 1915 by Canadian Physician and Lieutenant Colonel John McCra...

Poem here, french version here.

Wilhelm Brasse, photographer

Wilhelm Brasse, a Polish photographer who took pictures of tens of thousands of Auschwitz prisoners during World War II died October 23, 2012. Almost seven decades after the end of the war, Wilhelm Brasse's pictures preserve the memory of Holocaust victims.

Article here, pictures here and wiki here.

Homemade WW1 Trench

If only I had a back garden a World War I trench... A former history teacher builds 60ft-long trench in his back garden.

Link here.

The K-Rations

The K-rations explained from A to K... Ok, this isn't that funny, form A to Z.

Link here.

Just one more Grunt in Vietnam

The story of one of the many young men that was drafted into the military during the 1960's for service in Vietnam. As he wrote; "I decided I would write down everything I could remember and share it with them [you]."

Link here.

Vietnam booby traps

The most common booby traps used during the Vietnam War, plus some explanation on how they work. Simply terrifying.

Link here and here.

The Poisoned Paradise Island

The aftermath of the U.S. nuclear test on the Bikini Atoll.

Link here.

Movember

For Movember, here's the little contribution of the Victory Bonds. The best facial hair of the Civil War.

Link here.

Paschendale

Excerpt of the film All Quiet on the Western Front and music by Iron Maiden... Enjoy.

Link here.

Concentration Camp by Libera

A concentration camp made of legos... Interesting artwork by Zbigniew Libera and sponsored by Lego.

Link here.

Propaganda special

Here's two posts of the same site, the most hilariously ineffective and unintentionally hilarious propaganda posters with analysis and comments.

Link here and here.

Strange towers of the Third Reich

These concrete towers were unique Air Raid Shelters of Nazi Germany, built to withstand the destructive power of WWII bombs and heavy artillery. Their cone shape caused bombs to slide down the walls and detonate only at a heavily fortified base.

Link here.

Size does matter

The biggest guns ever invented... Something to make the Big Bertha blush.

Link here.

Wehrmacht polar bear picture, some explanations

Finally found some explanations about the famous picture of the Wehrmacht guys with the weird looking polar bear!

Link here.

Big Things Ahead

The October 1944 issue of Science and Mechanics looked at what technological advancements Americans might expect after WWII.

Link here.

Plans to built a Flying saucer

Courtesy of the U.S. Air force.

Link here.

Happy Halloween

Timeline World War 2

An WW2 app features an  interactive timeline. Over 100 films from the archives of British Pathé and US broadcasters, additional commentary by Dan Snow, over 600 still images and 1500 written entries.

Link here.

Funny picture

A funny one from WW1/2 Humorous Pics. Seems like Johnny Knoxville's grandfather...

My Top 10 war movies

Just for fun, this is my Top10 Top13 favourite 19th century wars movies. Wasn't easy to make, but I think I made a pretty good list. If you haven't seen one of those, you're missing something... What's your Top10?

1. Come and See, 1985
After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet Army and experiences the horrors of World War II.

2. Patton, 1970
The World War II phase of the controversial American general's career is depicted.

3. Apocalypse Now, 1979
During the on-going Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.

4. Jarhead, 2005
Based on former Marine Anthony Swofford's best-selling 2003 book about his pre-Desert Storm experiences in Saudi Arabia and about his experiences fighting in Kuwait.

5. Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957
After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it. 

6. Paths of Glory, 1957
When soldiers in WW1 refuse to continue with an impossible attack, their superiors decide to make an example of them.

7. The Longest Day, 1962
The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.

8. The Tin Drum, 1979
Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy.

9. Hurt Locker, 2008
Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.

10. Underground, 1995
The story follows an underground weapons manufacturer in Belgrade during WWII and evolves into fairly surreal situations.

11. Great escape, 1963
Allied POWs plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.

12. Full metal Jacket, 1987
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow Marine recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting set in 1968 in Hue, Vietnam.

13. The Thin Red Line, 1998
Director Terrence Malick's adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.

Vietnam war stories

Just before bedtime, here's some Vietnam war stories... I prefer the second one.

Link here, here and here.

3D-prints a gun

Seems like a Smithsonian special tonight... Here's another article from them; It's all fun and games until someone 3D-prints a gun.

Link here.

Cuba invasion

Never before seen photos taken 50 years ago during the preparations for the Cuba invasion.

Link here.

The 489th in Corsica

Some guys of the 489th Bombardment Squadron messing around with WW2 German stuff on the island of Corsica.

Link here.

Reference guide for 1933-1945 German helmets

This complete the first post I made about German helmets... So here's another site with more information.

Link here.

Canadian Reenactment Guide

The Perth Regiment made this reenacting handbook. This is a mine full of information and pictures about the Perth equipments, uniforms, weapons, etc. It's also very useful to anyone who want to recreate a WW2 Canadian impression, as the issued stuff was pretty much the same in all regiment.

Link here.

Rust in Peace

Second World War soldier had pound of shrapnel in his leg for 68 years! This guy was tough.

Link here.

Facebook page with humorous WW1 & WW2 pics

A good place to kill some time. Those guys had fun back in the days... 

Link here.

The "Victory Bond" of the week goes to...

This (scary) picture with a lots of people with gas mask... Can't date it, maybe during First World War Russian people in the '30. Note the two children playing with the machine gun (bottom left corner).

The Donkey War

Ok. As I was doing research for this blog, I come across what I think is the most undercover story of World War Two. Something buried deep into archives and documents, kept secret by high command. Until today... The Donkey War.

After the V2 and V3, the German command comes with this idea to win the war. The German armed donkey.

Pretty deadly weapons and as you know, well use by Rommel in North-Africa. So, for now, it's not a big deal, and you probably seen those around the web... But where things start to be pretty interesting, it's the Allied answer to that.

Bang! After D-Day, a whole section of Donkey was landed on Omaha, ready to take down Hitler... And they did, all across Europe, Africa, Italia...

And as my research goes by, I think I undercover the phase II of this plan, The V4 caribou... Simply amazing.