Newsletter Archive

• August 15, 2025Did you know about the story of Caen limestone (and its quarries)?
  
• August 8, 2025Did you know about the American PT boat crew who were buried in the Channel Islands?
  
• August 1, 2025Did you know Damian Lewis will be returning to World War II?
  
• July 24, 2025Did you know about the U.S. plane that went down near the Channel Islands?
  
• July 18, 2025Did you know why Soviet sailors carried so many ammo belts in World War II?
  
• July 10, 2025Did you know about the American war graves in the Channel Islands?
  
• July 4, 2025Did you know about the man who wanted to ride a rocket into space?
  
• June 26, 2025Did you know about the foot-kissing adventure of the man who founded Normandy?
  
• June 20, 2025Did you know a dangerous World War II test jump was performed by someone with no parachute experience?
  
• June 13, 2025Did you know a World War II German submarine was sunk by a toilet?
  
• June 6, 2025Did you know Lyndon B. Johnson’s life was saved by a toilet break during World War II?
  
• May 30, 2025Did you know Star Wars was not the only sci-fi film series to use World War II guns?
  
• May 22, 2025Did you know American cattle breeders banded together to save a breed in World War II?
  
• May 16, 2025Did you know about the big adventure of the C-47’s predecessor?
  
• May 7, 2025Did you know there was a „secret wedding” on the Channel Islands during World War II?
  
• April 30, 2025Did you know about the “free-range” Tiger tank in Normandy?
  
• April 25, 2025Did you know one of the world’s smallest chapels was destroyed twice – and not by the Germans who captured it in World War II?
  
• April 17, 2025Did you know about Churchill’s “underground tank”?
  
• April 11, 2025Did you know that New Jersey was named after one of the Channel Islands?
  
• April 4, 2025Did you know the last of “The Few” passed away recently?
  
• March 28, 2025Did you know a World War II April’s prank caused a panic?
  
• March 21, 2025Did you know how a Medal of Honor recipient tricked his Japanese captors?
  
• March 14, 2025Did you know a Japanese ship crew once massacred German citizens?
  
• March 7, 2025Did you know a cartoon caused government furor in Britain during World War II?
  
• February 28, 2025Did you know the last Fallschirmjäger drop happened during the Battle of the Bulge?
  
• February 21, 2025Did you know a bad phone line got two U.S. regiments killed?
  
• February 14, 2025Did you know about the “Robin Hoods” of the Channel Islands?
  
• February 7, 2025Did you know President Roosevelt had a role in developing duct tape?
  
• January 31, 2025Did you know President J. F. Kennedy’s first casket was buried at sea?
  
• January 24, 2025Did you know about the airmen who fell without a parachute and lived?
  
• January 17, 2025Did you know the Channel Islands played host to a poison milk plot in World War II?
  
• January 10, 2025Did you know a hotel owner saved 14 Americans during the Battle of the Bulge?
  
• January 4, 2025Did you know this about American snow camo uniforms in the Battle of the Bulge?
  
• December 29, 2024Did you know about the ship that brought food to the occupied Channel Islands?
  
• December 20, 2024Did you know that a tiny, strategically unimportant archipelago became the most heavily fortified place of World War II?
  
• December 13, 2024Did you know that Hitler first made contact with the future Nazis to spy on them?
  
• December 6, 2024Did you know an RAF superstition actually caused a real problem?
  
• November 29, 2024Did you know an American patriot "bombed" three American war factories in World War II?
  
• November 22, 2024Did you know about the other inventions of the man who came up with the iceberg carrier?
  
• November 15, 2024Did you know a U.S. destroyer almost torpedoed President F. D. Roosevelt?
  
• November 8, 2024Did you know a German soldier stayed on British soil after the war because of love?
  
• November 3, 2024Did you know the last Japanese airman who attacked Pearl Harbor died recently?
  
• October 25, 2024Did you know the Germans "stealth patched" a medieval castle on the Channel Islands?
  
• October 18, 2024Did you know that World War II sea mines found a new purpose on the British Isles?
  
• October 4, 2024Did you know why "Mayday" is the internationally used distress signal?
  
• September 27, 2024Did you know the Germans almost killed Patton with a giant gun?
  
• September 20, 2024Did You Know Eisenhower Flew on a Combat Mission Once?
  
• September 13, 2024Did You Know An American Fighter Pilot Was Spared By His Enemies?
  
• September 6, 2024Did you know the Navajo were neither the only nor the first code talkers?
  
• August 30, 2024Did you know why U.S. warplanes only had a single roundel on their wings?
  
• August 24, 2024Did you know a German pilot saved an American bomber crew in World War II?
  
• August 18, 2024Did you know France attacked Germany before the other way around?
  
• August 9, 2024Did you know that two New York skyscrapers were hit by planes near the end of World War II?
  
• August 2, 2024Did you know the Germans lost secret war plans in enemy territory... twice?
  
• July 25, 2024Did you know another missing American soldier has been identified?
  
• July 19, 2024Did you know a Scotsman went into battle on D-Day armed with a bagpipe?
  
• July 12, 2024Did you know F. D. Roosevelt once sailed together with a future prominent Fascist?
  
• July 7, 2024Did you know a Jewish-American soldier was buried with Germans for 80 years?
  
• June 28, 2024Did you know this year’s D-Day celebrations involved an unplanned flag removal?
  
• June 21, 2024Did you know a special type of Coca Cola was developed just for one Soviet general?
  
• June 14, 2024Did you know a plane crash caused a change to D-Day anniversary events?
  
• June 7, 2024Did you know one of the most iconic James Bond villains was both a Nazi Party member and saved Jews?
  
• May 31, 2024Did you know the Nazi war machine was (briefly) held up by a medieval knight?
  
• May 24, 2024Did you know a man died during World War II because he resembled Churchill?
  
• May 17, 2024Did you know how some Marines made their own ice cream in World War II?
  
• May 13, 2024Did you know why a U.S. veteran’s ashes were recently laid to rest in Hungary?
  
• May 6, 2024Did you know about the “Boeing Wonderland”?
  
• April 28, 2024Did you know Hawaii used special money during World War II?
  
• April 22, 2024Did you know that the remains of a long-lost World War II soldier recently returned home?
  
• April 15, 2024Did you know Nazi Germany had a golden comb to use at sea?
  
• April 6, 2024Did you know a World War II battleship was once disguised as houses?
  
• March 28, 2024Did you know about Churchill's personal B-24 bomber?
  
• March 22, 2024Did you know that kriegie radios were kept away even from most POWs?
  
• March 14, 2024Did you know what the little red box in front of the pilot is in Masters of the Air?
  
• March 8, 2024Did you know how the war ended for the German interrogator in Masters of the Air?
  
• March 1, 2024Did you know about the real target of the Münster Raid?
  
• February 23, 2024Did you know that Donut Dollies technically predated the world wars?
  
• February 16, 2024Did you know about the aerial rockets seen in Masters of the Air?
  
• February 9, 2024Did you know why the German planes attacked from the front in Masters of the Air?
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• February 2, 2024Did you know how the 100th Bombardment Group got its nickname?
  
• January 28, 2024Did you know two brothers who died in World War II were reunited 74 years later?
  
• January 19, 2024Did you know the airfield Enola Gay and Bockscar took off from is getting a major facelift?
  
• January 14, 2024Did you know why tankers have special boots since World War II?
  
• January 6, 2024Did you know we have lost a color since World War II?
  
• December 31, 2023Did you know you could bet on the death of humanity during the Trinity bomb test?
  
• December 22, 2023Did you know that the first news of D-Day was carried back by pigeon?
  
• December 15, 2023Did you know that Fascism has a strange historical link to The Hobbit?
  
• December 8, 2023Did you know that pieces of World War II battleships ended up in hospitals and labs?
  
• December 1, 2023Did you know you can (sort of) drive a car over the battleship Tirpitz?
  
• November 24, 2023Did you know that a World War II heavy bomber was recently recovered in the Netherlands?
  
• November 17, 2023Did you know why the Pentagon has an unusual number of bathrooms?
  
• November 10, 2023Did you know Nazi Germany tried to build a coal-powered plane?
  
• November 3, 2023Did you know a secret German base was defeated by a dead animal?
  
• October 27, 2023Did you know the Vatican was bombed in World War II?
  
• October 20, 2023Did you know two World War II planes stuck into each other midair – and landed safely?
  
• October 13, 2023Did you know that a unique World War II fighter will be recovered from a lake in the future?
  
• October 6, 2023Did you know the U.S. military built a “Japanese warship” in a dry lake?
  
• September 29, 2023Did you know that a famous Japanese World War II wreck was recently explored?
  
• September 22, 2023Did you know a World War II German war machine had just been found in Poland?
  
• September 15, 2023Did you know what happened to Rommel’s horse?
  
• September 8, 2023Did you know that a World War II veteran who made headlines in 2014 will be immortalized in film?
  
• September 1, 2023Did you know a top Nazi almost gatecrashed the British Royal Coronation?
  
• August 25, 2023Did you know that a World War II sub once had a reindeer onboard?
  
• August 17, 2023Did you know that a World War II torpedo was fished out of the sea this summer?
  
• August 11, 2023Did you know that Smokey Bear was born due to World War II?
  
• August 4, 2023Did you know a World War II special operations submarine has just been found?
  
• July 29, 2023Did you know a single airplane once captured an island?
  
• July 21, 2023Did you know that Japan saved thousands of Jews during World War II?
  
• July 14, 2023Did you know about Nazi Germany’s Antarctic colony?
  
• July 7, 2023Did you know that several British World War II fighters have just been found in Ukraine?
  
• July 2, 2023Did you know a Nazi purge had links to ancient British history?
  
• June 23, 2023Did you know that some D-Day soldiers had their resolve tested by feminine wiles?
  
• June 16, 2023Did you know America briefly considered painting Mount Fuji black?
  
• June 9, 2023Did you know there were actually two paratroopers who landed on the Sainte-Mère-Église church on D-Day?
  
• June 2, 2023Did you know that D-Day was almost betrayed by the weather TWICE?
  
• May 26, 2023Did you know the last aerial fight of World War II occurred after the war ended?
  
• May 19, 2023Did you know American submarine crews used to drink torpedo fuel?
  
• May 12, 2023Did you know that a famous World War II photo hides evidence of illegal looting?
  
• May 5, 2023Did you know the Iroquois declared their own war on the Axis in World War II?
  
• April 28, 2023Did you know that the ship involved in Australia’s greatest maritime tragedy has just been found?
  
• April 21, 2023Did you know the Spitfire had a special beer-carrying version?
  
• April 14, 2023Did you know Stalin and Churchill were avid billiards player?
  
• April 8, 2023Did you know why so many Japanese transport ships had “maru” in their name during World War II?
  
• March 31, 2023Did you know that the Eagle’s Nest can “run” on a submarine engine?
  
• March 24, 2023Did you know Hitler was derided as a “Bohemian corporal” due to a misunderstanding?
  
• March 17, 2023Did you know F.D.R. was the “most civilian” of all major World War II leaders?
  
• March 12, 2023Did you know why some Allied bombers were given ridiculous paintjobs?
  
• March 3, 2023Did you know that the wreck of a long-lost World War II submarine was just identified?
  
• February 26, 2023Did you know that Los Angeles was attacked by an invisible enemy in World War II?
  
• February 19, 2023Did you know at least one World War II bomber was bombed… in the air?
  
• February 12, 2023Did you know we can thank World War II for microwave ovens?
  
• January 29, 2023Did you know that a U.S. submarine “sunk” an enemy train during World War II?
  
• January 22, 2023Did you know that the last naval battle of World War II was fought by sailing ships?
  
• January 15, 2023Did you know that messenger pigeons still saw heavy use in World War II?
  
• January 8, 2023Did you know that a device with a very naughty name saved many British pilots?
  
• January 1, 2023Did you know a famous British actor was almost taken for a German saboteur?
  
• December 25, 2022Did you know Walt Disney’s ancestors came from Normandy?
  
• December 18, 2022Did you know D-Day’s secrecy depended on a man who wasn’t even supposed to know about it?
  
• December 11, 2022Did you know that Shermans last fought Panzer IVs long after World War II?
  
• December 4, 2022Did you know that the Nazis did not invent concentration camps?
  
• November 27, 2022Did you know that the Royal Navy had a friendly fire incident that was a double “historic first”?
  
• November 20, 2022Did you know the British liked their clergy with a big bang?
  
• November 13, 2022Did you know that a British piece of gear became a hit with the Germans?
  
• November 6, 2022Did you know that Hitler’s life was saved by bad weather?
  
• October 30, 2022Did you know that German paratroopers had to jump without their guns?
  
• October 23, 2022Did you know that four Rangers once captured 850 Germans?
  
• October 16, 2022Did you know that an American spy was instructed to “eliminate” her own leg?
  
• October 9, 2022Did you know that the Nazis loved Coca-Cola?
  
• October 2, 2022Did you know that American military chocolate was hated by the troops?
  
• September 25, 2022Did you know that the „worst gun of World War II” was slandered?
  
• September 18, 2022Did you know the first American casualty of WW II died before the attack on Pearl Harbor?
  
• September 11, 2022Did you know that the Germans literally tried to blow Allied planes out of the sky?
  
• September 4, 2022Did you know that a Luftwaffe ace flew into battle with lobster and champagne?
  
• August 28, 2022Did you know that a cocktail helped the British beat Rommel?
  
• August 21, 2022Did you know that the Normandy American Cemetery "moved" once?
  
• August 14, 2022Did you know that the Spitfire did not win the Battle of Britain alone?
  
• August 7, 2022Did you know that the USAAF was attacked by a volcano?
  
• July 31, 2022Did you know how tea influenced armored warfare?
  
• July 24, 2022Did you know about the catastrophic mission for the U.S. Rangers?