Tag: VE Day
VE Day Special — MHN Salutes the Warbirds of Europe (Photo Gallery)
IN HONOUR OF the 70th anniversary of VE Day, MilitaryHistoryNow.com invited warbird photographer Kai Hansen to share a few of his favourite images of some of the legendary aircraft of the Second World War. A seven-year veteran…
Shooting the Messenger — Meet the Journalist Who Was Fired for Breaking the Story of Germany’s Surrender
“Kennedy and his colleagues were flabbergasted when Allied commanders demanded the assembled newsies wait at least 36 hours before releasing the bombshell to the world.” JOURNALISTS ARE NORMALLY congratulated for breaking major news first. But for one…
Operation Unthinkable — Inside Churchill’s Proposed 1945 Surprise Attack on the Soviets
“It is to an early and speedy showdown and settlement with Russia that we must now turn our hopes.” WHILE THE WORLD celebrated the defeat of Nazism in May of 1945, one of the architects of…
