WW2

From the Battle of Britain to Operation Barbarossa, from U-boats to Spitfires, explore Sky HISTORY’s extensive guide to the greatest conflict of all time, featuring eyewitness accounts and defining photographic images. Header image: Shutterstock.com

A photograph of a German V-1 Pilotless 'buzz bomb' found intact by the US Army 9th Air Force in France

The rise and fall of Hitler’s V-weapons

Lyudmila Pavlichenko looking through the eyesight of her gun

History's deadliest female sniper: 'Lady Death'

German Panzer IV and Sd.Kfz. 251 halftrack \ Wikipedia

The Battle of Kursk: the largest tank battle in history

The Holy Grail

The Nazi hunt for holy treasure from Thor's Hammer to the Holy Grail

A photograph from the Second Battle of El Alamein

The major who led his men into battle with an umbrella

How would we remember Churchill's legacy If it wasn't for WWII?

Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl's secret life as a WW2 spy

A 1964 German postage stamp showing a portrait of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg

What if the von Stauffenberg plot had succeeded

The USS Mississinewa was the first to be hit by a Japanese Kaiten manned torpedo.

The Underwater Kamikaze of World War Two

A stock image of planes flying overhead, similar to those used in WW2

The Night Witches of World War Two

A statue of Winston Churchill in London, UK

The day the UK turned Its back on Churchill

Royal Air Force Boulton Paul Defiant Mk Is of No. 264 Squadron RAF (including L7026 "PS-V" and N1535 "PS-A") based at Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire, August 1940.

The Battle of Britain

Neville Chamberlain returning from the Munich Conference

Chamberlain: Peacemaker or pathetic pushover?

Irena Sendler: The saviour of the Warsaw Ghetto