the second world war

I attach here the exchange of views between Robert J. Hastings and G.W. Lambert on the famous 'time-slip' that occurred on Saturday, August 4th, 1951 in Puys, a seaside village just under three miles north-east of Dieppe, site of the famous wartime raid on August 19th, 1942. The case has been...

Great article about Wotjek the Bear, who served with the Polish Army in World War 2 . " A bear, famed for his love of beer, cigarettes and boxing and who was by the side of Allied troops in World War Two, has been made the subject of a play. Wojtek was adopted by the 2nd Polish Corps in 1943...

From Bristol Evening Post 7/8/2023 https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/man-says-tom-hanks-could-8660092: Man says Tom Hanks could be a time traveller who met his grandad in WW2...Tom Hanks is known for his interest in history and World War Two. He starred in Saving Private Ryan...

This entry from this weekend's Jeff Kacirk's Forgotten English was a doozy, served with a size order of night soil.

I hadn't heard of this story before: one woman and 32 men stranded on an island for years directly following WWII:

I often see Spitfires here because I'm not far from the Battle of Britain memorial and there are businesses who provide flights over it (for a not-inconsiderable sum). I took some photos of one this morning and a yellow sphere appeared in one picture. Naturally I saw nothing at the time. The...

I dare say that we are all familiar with the stories surrounding George Mallory, the famous mountaineer and possible conquerer of Everest. If that is not the case, please acquaint yourselves here: https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/mallory-first-to-conquer-everest.11049/ What I...

I've just been filtering through the vast repository of interviews that the Imperial War Museum has made available online. The following are a number of examples of references to ghosts and the supernatural--some are fleeting, others more involved. I have supplied a brief indication of what...

To steal and adapt a line from the comments to the ensuing article, if Death turns up and accepts a challenge for your soul, this may well be your go-to board game (assuming you can't find Twister): It’ll take you about 1,500 hours (or 62 days) to complete a full play of The Campaign For...

Not being an expert on Crocodiles - Saltwater or otherwise - I find myself wondering: a) Is there a likely upper figure for a community or is this wholly dependant on food availability? b) Do crocodiles save food for later? Would there be a point at which they'd simply stop killing available...

I was talking to a friend, and she told me her great uncle had a really strange story from during the war. I guess his wife passed away while he was away during the war, so when he came back he married his brother's wife (his brother also passed in the war) to give his children a mother and her...

Hi all - Can anyone remember an article in FT fairly recently (past year or so) that described an area in Germany (barracks or mine) in a mountainous area, where at the closing months of the Second World War the SS took themselves and their families into the bowels of the mountain and blew the...

Mods feel free to merge if there's a thread on this already (i'm sure i've seen it but it isn't searching up) I'm reminded a little of an apocryphal tale i heard about a stage adaptation of the Anne Frank story where the lead actress was so bloody awful that when the nazi's came to visit, an...

http/tinyurl.com/yqr5sy (Mod Edit: Original link is broken. Archived version found via The Wayback Machine here: https://web.archive.org/web/20090130100439/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1545177/Caravaggio-was-actually-Merisi-of-Milan.html) rynner the ubiquitous

This story was told to me earlier today by two of my elderly neighbours, sisters in their 80s. I'll run it with the caveat that they're both pretty good for a tall tale, though it doesn't strike me as the sort of thing they'd spin one about. According to them, cira ww2, a member of their...

The search engine failed to provide any results for this and I am aware that the current issue of FT relates to D-Day etc but I haven't been able to get a copy this month so I guess this would have been covered as it may be one of the most intriguing aspects to the D-day landings. Having...

I stumbled across a site that appears, upon first inspection, to construct a good narrative of the Hess flight drawing together many interesting threads and portraying him as the unwitting victim of British psychological warfare: http://www.members.aol.com/LeonardIngrams/index.html This...

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,975708,00.html I was reading this about Birmingham area. There is an opera about the story and everything. Does anyone know more?:eek!!!!:

Text added for clarity--Yith The night of the disaster There were 10 air raids upon London during the night of March 3 1943. When the alert sounded at 8.17 pm, hundreds of people left their homes to run to the Bethnal Green Tube Station shelter where 500 people were already sheltering. Local...

The US Military was also said to have acquired a great deal of data on biological weapons from the infamous Japanese camp, where the POWs called Logs of Wood, were exposed to Typhus and routinely subjected to living autopsies. I've some details about this somewhere.

Okay, this is my first time posting here, and I'm doing it a bit hurriedly in my lunch hour, so bear with me... Apart from Forteana, two of my main interests are aircraft and WW2, so something combining all three is obviously of great interest to me. I'd like to ask: 1) I've read a lot about...

I think I read this in "Behold a Pale Horse" by William Cooper, but I'm not quite sure. Basically, the story reads this way. During WWII, Hitler dispatched soldiers, scientists, etc. to the South Pole for various reasons. As it became more evident that the Allies were going to be victorious...

Has the mystery of Glenn Millers disappearance ever been solved?Did he actually take off at all?Why no wreckage and no reports of any Norseman aircraft in the area on the day in question.Did he in fact arrive in Paris and die in circumstances which would have handed a massive propaganda coup to...