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View this email [online]( if it doesn't display correctly Join the War History Online forum! On our very own forum you can engage in conversation with fellow readers, discuss the news, react to our articles and share your experiences. [Click to join our forum!]( Top stories of today [Some Big Failures & Strangest Looking Inventions of War]( [Some Big Failures & Strangest Looking Inventions of War]( New technology, more powerful guns, over-active planners, and the demands of warfare often resulted in wild creations that resembled flights of fancy or Frankenstein experiments… [Read more »]( [American Occupied England: Life in the D-Day Staging Zone]( [American Occupied England: Life in the D-Day Staging Zone]( By the time the D-Day invasion was launched in June 1944, the south of England had spent months filled with soldiers preparing for war. The… [Read more »]( [Lived to Tell the Tale: He slammed his hand on the table & said to Hitler “I will not take orders from a local Nazi chieftain”]( [Lived to Tell the Tale: He slammed his hand on the table & said to Hitler “I will not take orders from a local Nazi chieftain”]( Any school teacher or parent will give the same advice to a child who is being harassed by a bully: stand up to him, and… [Read more »]( [8 French Self-Propelled Artillery Weapons]( [8 French Self-Propelled Artillery Weapons]( Self-propelled artillery has a history almost as old as tanks, and the French were early adopters in both fields. From First World War field guns… [Read more »]( [Churchill’s account of Lord Mountbatten nearly shooting an Air Chief Marshal]( [Churchill’s account of Lord Mountbatten nearly shooting an Air Chief Marshal]( A previously unpublished draft of a letter written by Winston Churchill was unearthed from the estate of the late Commodore Gordon Allen and is now… [Read more »]( [British Warship Recognition: The Perkins Identification Albums Volumes 5, 6 & 7]( [British Warship Recognition: The Perkins Identification Albums Volumes 5, 6 & 7]( Richard Perkins is something of a mystery. He built a vast collection of warship photographs he either took himself or acquired through a network of… [Read more »]( [An Interesting Question Did People Look Back at the Civil War The Way we Look at WW2 Today?]( [An Interesting Question Did People Look Back at the Civil War The Way we Look at WW2 Today?]( A question that is interesting to ponder is whether other eras looked at past conflicts the way we look at World War Two (WWII). After… [Read more »]( [When WW2 Ended Where Did all the 100’s of Millions of Weapons Go?]( [When WW2 Ended Where Did all the 100’s of Millions of Weapons Go?]( World War II ended 73 years ago – so what happened to the hundreds of millions of weapons that were made for it? World War… [Read more »]( [Join Our Forum!]( Timera, 901 N. Pitt St., Suite 325, Alexandria, Virginia 22314, United States You may [unsubscribe]( or [change your contact details]( at any time. [Powered by:](