The WW2 vehicles “goldmine” of Anton Belousov

By Pierre Kosmidis   Photos submitted by Anton Belousov  The Eastern Front during WW2 has proved to be the graveyard of nazi aspirations for world domination. Millions of German soldiers died during the fierce battles fought in the vast expanses of the then Soviet Union. It is estimated that 4 out of 5 German soldiers […]

Top2Bottom: Η σπηλαιοκατάδυση στην Ελλάδα

  By Pierre Kosmidis Photos and videos by Top2Bottom  H Ελλάδα διαθέτει μοναδικό ενάλιο πλούτο, με τις ακτογραμμές, το πλούσιο υποβρύχιο περιβάλλον, τα ναυάγια και την πληθώρα θαλάσσιας ζωής, παρά τις έντονες πιέσεις από ανθρωπογενείς παράγοντες. Ωστόσο, η υποβρύχια Ελλάδα παραμένει ακόμα εν πολλοίς ανεξερεύνητη και στο εξωτερικό παραμένει ακόμα άγνωστη, σε αντίθεση με χώρες […]

A personal account of a Luftwaffe pilot in Greece: Friedrich “Fritz” Eisenbach in Kefalonia, Rodos, Leros – The Ju 87 “Stuka” dive bomber operations in Greece, 1943

By Pierre Kosmidis Photos, documents and additional information by Lt. Col. (ret.) Hans Peter Eisenbach, used by kind permission.   Click the links below for additional reading:   Identified! WW2 German Stuka Ju 87 aircraft S7+GM shot down in a dogfight on October 9 1943 recovered west of Rhodes   Dogfight over the Aegean: A […]

FOUND! The P-47 Thunderbolt lost since April 21st, 1945

By Pierre Kosmidis Aircraft profile: http://www.gaetanmarie.com/finding-loren/ The final resting place of an American Second World War fighter pilot has been found by Italian amateur archaeologists near Bologna. An American P-47 Thunderbolt class fighter, was unearthed on Saturday in front of the dead serviceman’s emotional children and grandchildren, who had travelled to Italy to be present […]

A rare Greek Bloch MB 151 in full colour, by artist Markos Danezis

By Pierre Kosmidis According to research done by the blog A history of military equipment of Modern Greece (1821 – today), the Bloch MB.151 was the most modern fighter of the Greek Airforce in 1940; clearly superior to the Italian G.50s and at least equal to the MC.200s. However, out of the 25 ordered before […]

Soviet T-34 tank recovered from river

By Pierre Kosmidis A Soviet T-34-76 tank produced at the Stalingrad Tractor Factory has been retrieved from the Don River in south Russia. The operation to recover the WWII Soviet tank was carried out near the village of Ukrainskaya Builovka in the Voronezh Region by specialists of Patriot Park in the Moscow Region, servicemen of […]

Battlefield Archaeology: Unearthing the WW1 “Pompeii” at Messines Ridge

By Pierre Kosmidis Photos by Simon Verdegem/Höhe 80 – Project Whitesheet 2018 Over 3,2 million men died in the battles fought in the Western Front during World War 1 and more than 8,4 million wounded soldiers lived to tell the tale of the first industrial-scale killing machine, known as the Great War. Today, vast cemeteries are […]